24/7 Linux SRE & Bare-Metal Triage Engineer

Quadrant Resource LLC; Redmond; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

Professional development and training

Job summary

Quadrant Technologies is seeking a hands-on Linux Systems / Bare-Metal Infrastructure / SRE Triage Engineer to support 24/7 Follow-the-Sun infrastructure operations for large-scale AI/TPU superpod environments. The ideal candidate will have strong Linux administration, bare-metal provisioning, datacenter networking, Kubernetes, and infrastructure troubleshooting experience.

The primary responsibility is to rapidly identify and isolate hardware and software failures during automated machine

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Linux systems, particularly Ubuntu and Debian.
• Experience with PXE/iPXE, OS installation, Subiquity/autoinstall, UEFI, and BIOS.
• Knowledge of systemd, dmesg, journalctl, and Linux troubleshooting.
• Experience with BMC, Redfish, IPMI, and serial console management.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot Linux-based bare-metal server provisioning and OS installation issues.
• Diagnose infrastructure failures involving DHCP, DNS, mTLS certificates, BMC, PXE boot, and automated deployment workflows.
• Perform system-level troubleshooting using SSH, kubectl, journalctl, dmesg, Python, and Bash.
• Support datacenter networking including IPv4/IPv6, DHCP, DNS, NTP, and network connectivity.
• Monitor Kubernetes workloads and infrastructure health using kubectl, Temporal, Grafana, and ClickHouse.
• Analyze hardware qualification and burn-in test results to identify hardware-related failures.
• Differentiate software/infrastructure issues from physical hardware defects.
• Generate hardware repair tickets with rack/RU/machine/port details and required actions.
• Execute documented troubleshooting procedures, runbooks, and escalation processes.
• Collaborate with onsite datacenter technicians and global infrastructure teams.

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes

Bash

Python

SSH

Tools

PXE/iPXE

Subiquity/autoinstall

UEFI/BIOS

BMC/Redfish/IPMI

Serial console

Temporal

Grafana

ClickHouse

NetBox/Foundry

Job description

Quadrant Technologies is seeking a hands-on Linux Systems / Bare-Metal Infrastructure / SRE Triage Engineer to support 24/7 Follow-the-Sun infrastructure operations for large-scale AI/TPU superpod environments. The ideal candidate will have strong Linux administration, bare-metal provisioning, datacenter networking, Kubernetes, and infrastructure troubleshooting experience.

The primary responsibility is to rapidly identify and isolate hardware and software failures during automated machine