Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Purple Drive
Overview: 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
- 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)
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster deployment and operations
- Experience managing multi-node clusters in production environments
- Terraform & Ansible for provisioning and configuration management
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices
- Experience with persistent storage solutions (Ceph, GlusterFS, SAN/NAS)
- Networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, DNS, load balancing
- Monitoring & logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
- Experience ensuring high availability and system reliability
- 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)
Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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