Senior Platform Infra Engineer — Bare-Metal & Kubernetes

Form3; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Supportive onboarding process

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the United Kingdom is looking for a Platform Engineer to manage and scale bare metal systems. Responsibilities include overseeing server hardware, enhancing automation for provisioning, and ensuring the reliability of hypervisors. Candidates should be knowledgeable in Infrastructure as Code practices and familiar with tools like Terraform and Kubernetes. This role emphasizes working within a self-sufficient team to maintain the infrastructure that supports critical systems and services. Remote work is available after the initial onboarding period.

Qualifications

• Experience with server hardware maintenance and management.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Understanding of networking concepts and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Manage and ensure reliability of hypervisors for VM provisioning.
• Conduct deployment, maintenance, and updates of critical software tools.
• Respond to incidents to maintain service stability and uptime.

Skills

Server hardware management

Infrastructure as Code patterns

Networking protocols knowledge

Automation of infrastructure provisioning

Virtualization technologies

Programming experience (preferably Go)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

KVM

QEMU

Kubernetes

Apache CloudStack

Job description

A leading technology firm in the United Kingdom is looking for a Platform Engineer to manage and scale bare metal systems. Responsibilities include overseeing server hardware, enhancing automation for provisioning, and ensuring the reliability of hypervisors. Candidates should be knowledgeable in Infrastructure as Code practices and familiar with tools like Terraform and Kubernetes. This role emphasizes working within a self-sufficient team to maintain the infrastructure that supports critical systems and services. Remote work is available after the initial onboarding period.