Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Infrastructure Engineer responsible for building operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters on physical (bare-metal) servers. This role focuses on data center infrastructure hardware provisioning storage automation and cluster reliability. The ideal candidate has strong experience working in on-prem environments and is not primarily cloud-focused.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy configure and maintain Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure

• Perform rack & stack hardware provisioning cabling and server lifecycle management

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible

• Design and manage persistent storage solutions (SAN NAS Ceph or similar)

• Monitor cluster health performance and availability using observability tools

• Implement high availability backup and disaster recovery strategies

• Manage networking configurations including VLANs load balancing and DNS

• Troubleshoot hardware OS networking and cluster-level issues

• Collaborate with platform DevOps and application teams to ensure reliability and scalability

• Maintain documentation for infrastructure processes and runbooks

Required Skills & Expertise

Core Infrastructure

• Strong experience with bare-metal server provisioning & data center operations

• Hands-on experience with rack & stack and physical server management

• Linux system administration (RHEL Ubuntu or similar)

Container & Orchestration

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster deployment and operations

• Experience managing multi-node clusters in production environments

Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform & Ansible for provisioning and configuration management

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices

Storage & Networking

• Experience with persistent storage solutions (Ceph GlusterFS SAN/NAS)

• Networking fundamentals: VLANs routing DNS load balancing

Monitoring & Reliability

• Monitoring & logging tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK stack

• Experience ensuring high availability and system reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with container runtimes and networking (CRI-O Containerd CNI plugins)

• Knowledge of disaster recovery and backup strategies

• Exposure to security hardening and compliance practices

• Scripting skills (Bash Python)