Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

Designs and builds compute infrastructure for containerised and virtualised workloads across bare-metal and hybrid cloud environments. The role focuses on Kubernetes on bare metal, infrastructure-agnostic tooling and APIs, automated hardware failure recovery, and hardware lifecycle management. It uses Infrastructure-as-Code, open-source storage such as Ceph and MinIO, and programming languages including Go, Java, or Python.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software development experience.
• At least 3 years of physical hardware management experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes on bare metal and open-source storage such as Ceph or MinIO.
• Experience automating infrastructure tasks with Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Knowledge of data centre operations, including power distribution, cooling, and rack management.
• Familiarity with server hardware and storage systems from Dell, HP, or Supermicro.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for hardware failures and performance bottlenecks.
• Expertise in at least one object-oriented language, such as Go, Java, or Python.
• Academic background in STEM.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the compute layer, focusing on Kubernetes on bare metal.
• Develop infrastructure-agnostic tooling and APIs for hybrid cloud environments.
• Detect and remediate hardware failures and implement auto-healing.
• Manage hardware procurement, installation, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Collaborate with network, security, and DevOps teams to integrate physical infrastructure with public cloud.
• Document infrastructure processes, configurations, and best practices.

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