Kubernetes Platform Engineer

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

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)