Staff Engineer, Kubernetes Platform & Networking
Core
Operate and provision a bare-metal Kubernetes platform across multiple metro locations, ensuring high availability and consistency for the software-defined data plane.
Role type
Staff Engineer, Kubernetes Platform & Networking
Builds
Production-grade Kubernetes clusters, bare-metal nodes, and automated provisioning pipelines for digital interconnection.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Bare-Metal Networking
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux administration on bare metal, Kubernetes cluster operations (RKE2/kubeadm), Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraform/ArgoCD), Networking (VLANs/BGP/SR-IOV), Hardware troubleshooting (BMC/IPMI), On-call incident response
Preferred skills
Multi-cluster management (Rancher), DPDK-based data planes, SDN platforms, LLM provider API integration, Geographically distributed site operations
Technologies
Kubernetes, RKE2, kubeadm, etcd, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Fleet, PXE/iPXE, cloud-init, BMC/IPMI, VLANs, BGP, SR-IOV
Responsibilities
Provision and harden bare-metal servers using automation pipelines; Operate and upgrade Kubernetes clusters with zero unplanned downtime; Manage GitOps fleet configuration and policy enforcement; Respond to production incidents as first responder; Author and maintain runbooks and observability dashboards.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership
