Remote Platform Engineer, Metal & Kubernetes

Grafanalabs; Ireland; Remote; EUR 82,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote work

30 days annual leave (Grafana Shutdown

Job summary

Grafana Labs is building a new Foundations 'Metal' squad to provision resources including storage, networking and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own hardware. You will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources outside public cloud for engineering teams.

Role includes operating the Metal stack, contributing to on-call rotations, and collaborating with Grafana Cloud teams to deliver the right capabilities. Remote role open to UK, Spain and Ireland.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes.
• Strong Go, Python, and shell development skills.
• Datacenter experience and on-call rotation experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the physical Metal environment from bare metal to Kubernetes.
• Manage cluster networking components: load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster routing.
• Manage scheduling and autoscaling for clusters.
• Maintain Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules and ensure compatibility.
• Collaborate with Grafana Cloud teams to understand needs and invest in capabilities.

Skills

Go

Python

Shell

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

On-call rotation

Tools

Crossplane

Terraform

Jsonnet/Tanka

Job description

Grafana Labs is building a new Foundations 'Metal' squad to provision resources including storage, networking and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own hardware. You will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources outside public cloud for engineering teams.

Role includes operating the Metal stack, contributing to on-call rotations, and collaborating with Grafana Cloud teams to deliver the right capabilities. Remote role open to UK, Spain and Ireland.