Staff Engineer, Bare Metal Kubernetes Platform

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Reliability Engineering team that operates a bare-metal Kubernetes platform across multiple metro locations. The platform's architecture is defined and the build is underway you will provision and operate it day to day: bringing up nodes and clusters, running upgrades, keeping the fleet consistent through GitOps, and owning your shift of the on-call rotation.

What you'll do

• OS Provisioning & Bare-Metal Infrastructure
• Provision bare-metal servers across multiple metros using the team's PXE/iPXE imaging and cloud-init pipeline, and harden the OS prior to cluster bootstrap
• Extend and maintain that provisioning automation as new hardware, metros and OS versions are introduced, keeping node bring-up free of manual per-node steps
• Work with the teams that own the hardware on BIOS/firmware baselines, NIC configuration and disk layout standards
• Bring up and operate Kubernetes clusters following the team's established control-plane topology, including etcd members

What you need

• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Networking
• Test cases
• Any graduate

Good to have

• LLMs
• Costing