Staff Engineer, Kubernetes Platform & Networking
Core
Staff Engineer operating a bare-metal Kubernetes platform across multiple metro locations, responsible for provisioning nodes, managing clusters, and ensuring reliability of the software-defined data plane.
Role type
Staff IC Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes & Networking)
Builds
Bare-metal Kubernetes clusters and the software-defined data plane for digital interconnection
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Network Operations
Required skills
Linux administration, bare-metal provisioning, Kubernetes operations, Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraform), Networking (BGP/VLANs), On-call incident response, Automation
Preferred skills
Multi-cluster management (Rancher), DPDK/SR-IOV tuning, SDN platforms, LLM provider APIs, Geographically distributed site operations
Technologies
Kubernetes, RKE2, kubeadm, etcd, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Fleet, PXE/iPXE, cloud-init, BMC/IPMI, SR-IOV, 6WIND VSR
Responsibilities
Provision bare-metal servers and harden OS; Operate and upgrade Kubernetes clusters; Manage GitOps fleet configuration; Execute rolling upgrades and patching; Respond to on-call incidents and maintain runbooks
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope