Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer - Data Center & Automation
Summary
Senior engineer who designs, provisions, and automates a global bare metal server fleet for a company building its own alternative-to-AWS infrastructure. Day to day: OS deployment and fleet tooling (MaaS, Ansible, Terraform), deep Linux/hardware/network troubleshooting, using Python/Go/Bash, serving low-latency needs of gaming clients.
Confidential | Global Infrastructure Unicorn-in-making. Our client builds and runs their OWN global infrastructure - not on top of AWS, they ARE the alternative. Thousands of servers, custom automation, built for performance.
Why This Role Is Exciting:
Forget managing someone else's cloud. You will DESIGN and BUILD the physical foundation that powers the real-time internet. You will automate the provisioning of thousands of bare metal servers globally. Pure engineering, no bureaucracy. If you love hardware, Linux, and automation at scale, this is it.
What You Will Own:
- Architect and maintain large-scale bare metal fleet - provisioning, lifecycle, automation
- Build tooling for OS deployment, hardware monitoring, and fleet management (think MaaS, Ansible, Terraform)
- Troubleshoot deep Linux, hardware, and network issues across global PoPs
- Work on projects that directly impact latency and performance for top gaming companies
Who You Are:
- 5-8+ years in Bare Metal / Data Center Infrastructure / SRE
- Deep Linux expert, PXE, IPMI/iDRAC, RAID, hardware diagnostics
- Strong in Python / Go / Bash for automation
- Experience with large fleets (500+ servers)
