About the role
We are looking for a Core Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and maintain mission-critical infrastructure platforms. This role focuses on ensuring high availability, scalability, and security across enterprise-grade systems built on Kubernetes and bare-metal foundations.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure platforms
- Design and operate highly available Kubernetes environments (bare-metal and cloud-based)
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
- Contribute to capacity planning and performance optimization initiatives
- Ensure system reliability, security hardening, and operational excellence
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical systems
Required Skills & Experience
Container Orchestration & Cloud Native
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes (bare-metal and cloud deployments)
- Advanced Kubernetes networking (CNI, service mesh, network policies, ingress controllers)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes storage (CSI drivers, persistent volumes, storage classes)
Systems Engineering
- Strong Linux expertise: kernel tuning, security hardening, performance optimization
- Production experience with hypervisors: KVM, QEMU, ESXi
- Hands-on hardware server troubleshooting, configuration, and lifecycle management
DevOps & Automation
- GitOps experience (Flux v2 or similar CD tools)
- Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Terraform
- OS automation: custom image creation, cloud-init bootstrapping
Database Management
- Design and maintenance of highly available MySQL/PostgreSQL clusters
- Replication, failover strategies, and performance tuning
Observability & Monitoring
- Monitoring systems: Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics
- Logging stacks: ELK, Loki, VictoriaLogs
- Metrics collection, alerting, and observability platform design
Networking
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (protocols, routing, switching)
- Experience designing scalable network architectures
Backup & Recovery
- Enterprise backup solution implementation
- Disaster recovery planning and execution
Preferred Qualifications
- Hardware provisioning systems: PXE, MAAS, Foreman, or similar
- Bare-metal automation platforms
- Multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure experience
- Experience with Talos Linux
