Senior Staff Engineer, Kubernetes Platform & Networking
Core
Operate and continuously improve a bare-metal Kubernetes platform across multiple metro locations, managing OS provisioning, control planes, data plane deployment, and network connectivity.
Role type
Senior Staff Engineer, Kubernetes Platform & Networking
Builds
Multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet, software-defined data plane, automated provisioning pipelines, and centralized management plane
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, Data Center Networking, Kubernetes
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Linux/Ubuntu provisioning at scale, bare-metal hardware diagnostics, Kubernetes cluster operations, GitOps pipeline management, network troubleshooting (BGP/VLANs), zero-downtime upgrade execution, incident response leadership
Preferred skills
6WIND VSR/DPDK data plane familiarity, SR-IOV NIC tuning, SDN/private connectivity platforms, LLM provider API integration, geographically distributed site operations
Technologies
Kubernetes (RKE2/kubeadm), Rancher, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, etcd, CNI (Multus/SR-IOV), PXE/iPXE, cloud-init, BGP, VLANs
Responsibilities
Own OS installation and hardening on bare-metal servers; Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters with high availability; Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data plane deployment; Operate multi-metro underlay network and partner on connectivity; Plan and execute rolling OS and Kubernetes upgrades; Administer centralized management plane and GitOps configuration; Lead on-call rotation and incident response for control/data/network planes
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
