Senior Staff Engineer, Bare Metal Kubernetes Platform
Equinix (company site, opens in a new tab)BengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 40–70 LPA
Posted 7h ago
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Job description
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About This Role
- Operate and continuously improve a bare-metal Kubernetes platform across multiple metro locations, including OS provisioning, Kubernetes cluster deployment, CI/CD pipeline management for the data plane, and platform upgrades.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, network, and software teams to diagnose and resolve faults; administer centralized multi-cluster management plane with GitOps-driven configuration management.
- Own operational responsibilities such as on-call incident management, running blameless postmortems, and driving automation to reduce recurring failures and maintain platform availability.
Minimum Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with Linux/Ubuntu OS provisioning at scale using PXE/iPXE and cloud-init, BIOS/firmware management, and OS hardening.
- Strong Kubernetes experience deploying and operating RKE2 or kubeadm clusters on bare metal, including etcd operations, HA kube-apiserver, CNI (Multus/SR-IOV), and multi-cluster fleet management.
- Proficiency in CI/CD and infrastructure automation tools (GitOps, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, or equivalents) and networking technologies (VLANs, BGP, NIC bonding, SR-IOV).
- Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD. Notice period: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in full-stack infrastructure operations across bare-metal hardware, OS, Kubernetes, and networking layers with ability to troubleshoot and escalate effectively.
- Comfortable managing geographically distributed, high-availability Kubernetes platforms with operational rigor including zero-downtime upgrades and incident leadership.
- Skilled in GitOps-driven automation culture with strong emphasis on documented runbooks, automation-first mindset, and continuous improvement through blameless postmortems.