Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Compute Platforms

Job summary

Designs and supports enterprise compute and hypervisor platforms for a private cloud, spanning bare-metal hardware, Linux, virtualization, cloud orchestration, and Kubernetes. The role standardizes infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle automation with PXE, Redfish APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD, while building production Kubernetes clusters and troubleshooting systems that support secure, high-throughput, multi-tenant workloads.

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps experience focused on compute system design.
• Experience designing and automating large-scale bare-metal compute environments.
• Hands-on experience with PXE boot, network-based operating system provisioning, and server imaging.
• Experience implementing or supporting BMaaS platforms and using Redfish APIs for hardware lifecycle operations.
• Deep enterprise Ubuntu Linux expertise.
• Hands-on KVM hypervisor experience, including Harvester or OpenStack.
• Experience designing and deploying production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience building or supporting infrastructure and platform automation CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Python, Bash, or similar scripting skills.
• Ability to produce clear technical design documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise compute and hypervisor platforms across hardware, operating systems, virtualization, cloud orchestration, and Kubernetes.
• Define standards and automation for bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Design BMaaS capabilities and Kubernetes platforms on bare metal.
• Build and maintain PXE provisioning environments using Redfish APIs.
• Develop infrastructure automation with Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Git, Python, and Bash.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure updates, patching, upgrades, testing, and rollback.
• Automate server builds, firmware lifecycle management, patching, and hardware validation.
• Evaluate and standardize enterprise hardware platforms.
• Create technical designs, build guides, and operational handoff documentation.
• Troubleshoot storage, Kubernetes, hypervisor, networking, and Linux issues.
• Coordinate with operations, network, storage, and platform teams to ensure production readiness.
• Participate in on-call escalation and global change-management practices.

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