Core Infrastructure Engineer

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