Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & VM Automation

Cisco Systems Inc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems Inc is building a global demo platform to enable sales, partners and customers to run demonstrations from a shared multi-tenant infrastructure. You will manage production Kubernetes clusters, Linux nodes, networking, storage, and VM lifecycles using KubeVirt and Terraform/Ansible, with GitOps tooling for automated deployment.

You will contribute to Kubernetes APIs, implement monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and ensure security baselines and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Linux systems engineering.
• Strong Linux administration experience (RHEL family) and basic host networking knowledge.
• Production experience operating Kubernetes, including upgrades, debugging, and day‑2 operations.
• Experience with Linux virtualization (KVM/QEMU, KubeVirt, OpenShift Virtualization) and VM lifecycles.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking and persistent storage (CNI, CSI, PVCs).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible) and Git-based CI/CD or GitOps (Argo CD/Flux).
• Scripting or automation in Python, Go, or Bash; knowledge of Multus and multi‑homed VMs.
• Knowledge of API-first platform design using operators, CRDs, or admission webhooks.

Responsibilities

• Build, upgrade, and operate production Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments.
• Own cluster fundamentals: Linux nodes, networking, ingress, storage, RBAC, security baselines.
• Run KubeVirt in production with VM lifecycle, templates, live migration, and disk attach.
• Enable VM networks beyond default pod network; ensure tenant isolation.
• Integrate cluster with data-center networking and storage (CSI) including snapshot/clone workflows.
• Automate infrastructure and cluster lifecycle with IaC and GitOps tooling.
• Contribute to Kubernetes APIs used by product (operators, CRDs, admission).
• Package deployments with Helm as reusable templates; monitor with Prometheus/Grafana.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux administration

Automation

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

CI/CD

Networking

Storage

Python

Go

OpenShift Virtualization

VMware

Cluster management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

KubeVirt

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenShift Virtualization

Job description

Cisco Systems Inc is building a global demo platform to enable sales, partners and customers to run demonstrations from a shared multi-tenant infrastructure. You will manage production Kubernetes clusters, Linux nodes, networking, storage, and VM lifecycles using KubeVirt and Terraform/Ansible, with GitOps tooling for automated deployment.

You will contribute to Kubernetes APIs, implement monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and ensure security baselines and capacity planning.