Senior Compute Engineer, Kubernetes on Bare Metal

Revolut; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 600,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut is hiring a Senior Compute Engineer to design and build core systems managing containerised and virtualised workloads on bare metal and hybrid environments. You will create tooling that hides hardware complexity and optimises infrastructure for scale and speed.

You’ll collaborate with network, security, and DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration of physical infra with public cloud and document best practices for future initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience and at least 3+ years managing physical hardware.
• Experience with Kubernetes on bare metal and open-source storage solutions.
• In-depth Infrastructure-as-Code automation experience (Terraform/Ansible).
• Strong understanding of data centre operations, power, cooling, and rack management.
• Proficiency in Go, Java or Python and knowledge of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the compute layer, focusing Kubernetes on bare metal.
• Develop tooling and APIs to manage hybrid cloud environments at scale.
• Ensure infrastructure reliability and auto-healing for hardware failures.
• Manage hardware lifecycle from procurement to upgrades.
• Collaborate with network, security, and DevOps to integrate physical infra with public cloud.
• Document infrastructure processes, configurations, and best practices.

Skills

Kubernetes on bare metal

Infrastructure as Code

Go/Java/Python

Hardware management

Data centre operations

Ceph/MinIO storage

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Ceph

MinIO

Dell/HP/Supermicro hardware

Job description

Revolut is hiring a Senior Compute Engineer to design and build core systems managing containerised and virtualised workloads on bare metal and hybrid environments. You will create tooling that hides hardware complexity and optimises infrastructure for scale and speed.

You’ll collaborate with network, security, and DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration of physical infra with public cloud and document best practices for future initiatives.