Senior Compute Engineer - Kubernetes on Bare Metal

Revolut; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut in the United Arab Emirates seeks a Senior Compute Engineer to design and build core systems for containerised and virtualised workloads on bare metal and hybrid environments.

You will develop infrastructure-agnostic tools and APIs, ensure reliability, and manage the hardware lifecycle while collaborating with security, network, and DevOps teams to deliver scalable, high-performance infrastructure for a global financial platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3+ years managing physical hardware.
• Kubernetes on bare metal and Ceph/MinIO storage experience.
• Infrastructure automation with IaC tools.
• Deep knowledge of data centre operations: power, cooling, rack management.
• Familiar with server hardware and storage (Dell/HP/Supermicro).
• Strong troubleshooting across hardware and performance bottlenecks.
• Expertise in Go, Java or Python.
• Academic background in STEM.

Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining compute layer with Kubernetes on bare metal.
• Building infrastructure-agnostic tooling and APIs for hybrid clouds.
• Ensuring reliability via proactive hardware failure detection and auto-healing.
• Managing hardware lifecycle from procurement to upgrades.
• Collaborating with network, security, and DevOps teams for integration.
• Documenting infrastructure processes and best practices.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Kubernetes

Bare Metal

IaC

Ceph

MinIO

Hardware Management

Troubleshooting

Cloud Integration

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Dell hardware

HP hardware

Supermicro hardware

Job description

Revolut in the United Arab Emirates seeks a Senior Compute Engineer to design and build core systems for containerised and virtualised workloads on bare metal and hybrid environments.

You will develop infrastructure-agnostic tools and APIs, ensure reliability, and manage the hardware lifecycle while collaborating with security, network, and DevOps teams to deliver scalable, high-performance infrastructure for a global financial platform.