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Kubernetes & Bare Metal Engineer Member of Technical Staff

About Infrastructure Shared Services (ISS)

Infrastructure Shared Services (ISS) is responsible for Pure Storages engineering infrastructure development environments and production-adjacent services across our global data centers and public cloud environments. We partner with internal engineering teams to deliver reliable secure and scalable platforms so they can focus on building highquality products.

Within ISS the Bare Metal Kubernetes Platform team designs builds and operates largescale Kubernetes environments on bare metal servers backed by Pure Storage arrays and Portworx and integrated with ISSs observability CI/CD and multitenancy frameworks.

Role Summary

As anBare Metal & Kubernetes Engineer you will be a senior individual contributor responsible for designing deploying and operating largescale baremetal Kubernetes clusters and platform services in our onprem data centers.
You will:

• Lead technical design and implementation for new cluster features and capabilities
• Own critical areas of the platform (e.g. cluster lifecycle networking storage observability or multitenancy)
• Drive reliability performance and security of the Kubernetes platform used by multiple business units
• Mentor other engineers and influence best practices across ISS and partner teams

Key Responsibilities

Platform Design & Architecture

• Design and evolve baremetal Kubernetes architectures including control plane worker nodes networking and storage integrations (Portworx on FlashArray/FlashBlade).
• Define standards for cluster lifecycle management (provisioning upgrades decommissioning) using tools like Kubespray Foreman and internal CD pipelines.
• Contribute to design of multitenant secure clusters including RBAC OIDC/SSO namespace isolation and quota/limit strategies.

Implementation & Operations

• Deploy operate and continuously improve largescale baremetal Kubernetes clusters across multiple data centers (dev stg prod).
• Implement and maintain cluster networking: CNI (e.g. Cilium) BGP load balancers ingress and multirack/ToR topologies.
• Build and maintain GitOpsbased workflows (e.g. ArgoCD) and CI/CD pipelines to manage cluster addons platform services and tenant workloads.
• Ensure observability of the platform (metrics logs traces) using Prometheus Elastic stack Grafana and related tooling; define SLOs and alerts with SRE teams.
• Participate in follow the sun on call for the production system. Lead or contribute the incident management and incident postmortem

Reliability Security & Compliance

• Own and improve reliability and performance of clusters and platform components; lead root cause analysis and longterm fixes for complex incidents.
• Implement and enforce security best practices for Kubernetes including secure defaults RBAC policies network policies and secrets management.
• Collaborate with SRE Security and Network Engineering to meet agreed SLIs/SLOs and support models for onprem Kubernetes.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner closely with BU engineering teams (e.g. GitHub Actions runners ELK KubeVirt workloads) to onboard and run production use cases on the baremetal clusters.
• Provide technical leadership on crossteam projects: lead design reviews write design docs and drive decisions that balance reliability cost and user experience.
• Mentor junior and midlevel engineers sharing best practices in Kubernetes automation and production operations.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 years of experience in infrastructure SRE or platform engineering roles including at least 3 years running Kubernetes in production with significant experience on bare metal.
• Strong proficiency in Linux systems administration networking performance tuning and security hardening.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (API server etcd controllers scheduler kubelet) and key concepts (Pods Deployments Services Ingress ConfigMaps Secrets HPA).
• Handson experience with Kubernetes networking: CNI plugins (preferably Cilium) Services/Ingress NetworkPolicies and L4/L7 loadbalancing.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools such as Ansible Terraform or equivalent.
• Strong experience with observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus Elastic/ELK Grafana Fluentd/Fluent Bit) for cluster and workload monitoring.
• Solid scripting or programming skills (e.g. Python Go or similar) for automation tooling and integration work.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams and write clear technical documentation and runbooks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating KubeVirt or other virtualization solutions on top of Kubernetes.
• Prior work with onprem GitHub Actions runners or similar CI/CD runners on Kubernetes (cloud or bare metal).
• Familiarity with Portworx and Pure Storage arrays as persistent storage for Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience in multitenant platform design: authentication via OIDC/Okta RBAC design tenant isolation and selfservice onboarding flows.
• Background in data center networking (BGP MLAG ECMP spineleaf architectures) and how it interacts with Kubernetes networking at scale.
• Handson experience with OpenStack in production (Nova Neutron Cinder) and integration patterns between OpenStack Kubernetes and onprem infrastructure.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:

• Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically like a challenge and aspire to be trailblazers.
• Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been named Fortunes Best Workplaces in Technology Fortunes Best Workplaces in the Bay Area and certified as a Great Place to Work!
• Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.

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ACCOMMODATIONS AND ACCESSIBILITY:

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OUR COMMITMENT TO A STRONG AND INCLUSIVE TEAM:

Were forging a future where everyone finds their rightful place and where every voice matters. Where uniqueness isnt just accepted but embraced. Thats why we are committed to fostering the growth and development of every person cultivating a sense of community through our Employee Resource Groups and advocating for inclusive leadership.

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