Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Infrastructure Engineer responsible for building, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters on physical (bare-metal) servers. This role focuses on data center infrastructure, hardware provisioning, storage, automation, and cluster reliability. The ideal candidate has strong experience working in on-prem environments and is not primarily cloud-focused.

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Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure

• Perform rack & stack, hardware provisioning, cabling, and server lifecycle management

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible

• Design and manage persistent storage solutions (SAN, NAS, Ceph, or similar)

• Monitor cluster health, performance, and availability using observability tools

• Implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies

• Manage networking configurations including VLANs, load balancing, and DNS

• Troubleshoot hardware, OS, networking, and cluster-level issues

• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and application teams to ensure reliability and scalability

• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, processes, and runbooks

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Required Skills & Expertise

Core Infrastructure

• Strong experience with bare-metal server provisioning & data center operations

• Hands-on experience with rack & stack and physical server management

• Linux system administration (RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar)

Container & Orchestration

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster deployment and operations

• Experience managing multi-node clusters in production environments

Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform & Ansible for provisioning and configuration management

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices

Storage & Networking

• Experience with persistent storage solutions (Ceph, GlusterFS, SAN/NAS)

• Networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, DNS, load balancing

Monitoring & Reliability

• Monitoring & logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack

• Experience ensuring high availability and system reliability

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with container runtimes and networking (CRI-O, Containerd, CNI plugins)

• Knowledge of disaster recovery and backup strategies

• Exposure to security hardening and compliance practices

• Scripting skills (Bash, Python)