Staff Engineer, Bare Metal Kubernetes Platform
Equinix (company site, opens in a new tab)BengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 35–65 LPA
Posted on 23 Sept
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About This Role
- Provision and operate a bare-metal Kubernetes platform across multiple metropolitan locations including node and cluster bring-up, upgrades, and configuration management via GitOps.
- Isolate hardware, network, and software issues by working across teams owning physical infrastructure, underlay network, and data plane software, and participate in on-call incident response.
- Maintain observability tools, dashboards, runbooks, and lead rolling upgrades and patch management to ensure operational consistency and platform reliability.
Minimum Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Linux/Ubuntu provisioning on bare metal including PXE/iPXE imaging and OS hardening.
- Production Kubernetes cluster operation experience on bare metal, including etcd management and CNI configuration.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools like Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies using tools such as ArgoCD or Fleet.
- Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in multi-metro, distributed bare-metal infrastructure environments with direct hardware management and troubleshooting skills (BMC/IPMI, SMART data).
- Comfortable executing operational responsibilities end-to-end including upgrades, incident response, and runbook development with an automation-first mindset.
- Familiar with networking concepts (VLANs, BGP, SR-IOV) and advanced Kubernetes platform components such as RKE2 or kubeadm, operating within a self-sufficient reliability engineering team.