Senior Compute Services Engineer (Kubernetes, Bare Metal)

CoreWeave; Livingston; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave in Livingston, United Kingdom, is seeking a Senior Engineer in Compute Services to build fault-tolerant infrastructure for internal processes and customer platform. You will design, develop and maintain automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal using Python, Golang and Bash.

Responsibilities include on-call support, improving reliability with Grafana, and contributing to automated testing to ensure build quality and stability.

Qualifications

• Advanced Linux OS troubleshooting and debugging Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

• Build fault-tolerant, reliable infrastructure for internal and customer platforms.
• Design automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal.
• Develop and maintain CI pipelines with GitLab CI / GitHub Actions.
• Participate in on-call rotation every two months.
• Improve reliability using Grafana ecosystem.
• Write automated tests to validate build quality and stability.

Skills

GitOps

Kubernetes

DevOps

Python

Golang

Bash

Linux troubleshooting

Documentation

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Tools

Ansible

AWX

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Kubeadm

Cluster API

Kubespray

Grafana

Bare-metal provisioning tooling

Job description

• As a Senior Engineer in Compute Services, you will be responsible for building fault-tolerant and reliable infrastructure to support both our internal processes and our customer platform
• If you’re passionate about GitOps, KubeOps, DevOps—really, all the ops—this role could be a great fit for you!
• Design, develop, and maintain automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal
• Use Python, Golang, and Bash to create tooling and go operators
• Perform day 2 lifecycle tasks and maintenance on running clusters
• Identify gaps and implement fault-tolerant architectures
• Optimize reliability using the Grafana ecosystem
• Design automated testing to validate build quality and stability
• Participate in an on-call rotation every two months serving as point of contact

• Advanced Linux OS troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrated ability debugging complex kubernetes cluster issues and carrying out upgrades
• Proficiency in Golang, Bash, and Python
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively on shared codebases
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation to support production services
• Excellent documentation skills and high attention to detail
• Extensive experience with Ansible
• Advanced DevOps experience (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Proven experience provisioning Kubernetes using tools such as kubeadm, Cluster API, Kubeception, Kubespray, or similar
• Kubernetes operator coding experience
• Advanced Linux networking expertise
• AWX/Ansible tower knowledge
• Bare-metal OS provisioning experience