Infrastructure Engineer

Purple Drive

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Milpitas, CA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 9 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Summary

We are seeking a handson Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience in deploying operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters on baremetal physical servers. This role requires deep expertise in cluster provisioning storage monitoring and maintaining high reliability in onpremises Kubernetes environments.


Note: This is not a cloud engineering role the ideal candidate must have strong rack/stack and physical infrastructure experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters on physical servers.
  • Perform rack/stack cabling hardware setup and infrastructure bringup activities.
  • Manage provisioning workflows including bootstrapping nodes networking configurations load balancers and cluster dependencies.
  • Configure and optimize storage solutions for Kubernetes (Ceph local PVs distributed storage etc.).
  • Implement monitoring alerting and cluster health dashboards for reliability and uptime.
  • Troubleshoot node failures network issues cluster degradation and performance bottlenecks.
  • Automate infrastructure lifecycle using InfrastructureasCode (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
  • Maintain cluster security RBAC policies certificate rotation and secure deployment workflows.
  • Collaborate with platform hardware and DevOps teams to ensure endtoend infrastructure stability.
  • Document procedures architecture diagrams and operational best practices.

Mandatory Skills

  • 6-8 years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Engineer.
  • Strong handson experience with Kubernetes on physical servers (baremetal).
  • Experience with rack & stack server deployment and physical datacenter operations.
  • Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
  • Proficiency in Ansible for configuration management and automation.
  • Strong understanding of Linux system internals networking and storage subsystems.
  • Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK etc.) and log aggregation.
  • Strong troubleshooting experience on production clusters.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience with distributed storage systems (Ceph Longhorn Rook etc.).
  • Knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio Linkerd).
  • Familiarity with container runtimes CRIO containerd or Docker.
  • Experience with hardware provisioning tools (iLO IPMI Redfish).
  • Scripting experience (Python Bash Go is a plus).
  • Exposure to security hardening CIS benchmarks and compliance frameworks.
Job Summary We are seeking a handson Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience in deploying operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters on baremetal physical servers. This role requires deep expertise in cluster provisioning storage monitoring and maintaining high reliability in onpremises Kubern...
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Key Skills

  • Jenkins
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • Active Directory
  • Cloud
  • PowerShell
  • Windows
  • AWS
  • Linux
  • SAN
  • Java
  • Troubleshoot
  • Backup
  • Puppet
  • hardware