Senior Platform Engineer – On-Prem & Bare-Metal (K8s/GitOps)

X-team; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

X-team is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to modernize on-premises and bare-metal infrastructure for telecommunications-grade platforms. You will deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across private environments, automate infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps tools, and drive platform reliability and developer experience.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, security-first practices, and collaboration with developers and operations teams to deliver scalable, automated

Qualifications

• Experience installing and upgrading Kubernetes clusters in on-prem/bare-metal environments.
• Strong GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Solid Linux systems administration for production workloads.
• Ability to design automated provisioning of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Willingness to participate in on-call and follow security-first engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Install, deploy, maintain, and upgrade Kubernetes clusters on on-premises and bare-metal environments.
• Build and manage declarative infrastructure and deployment workflows using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Argo CD or Flux.
• Design and evolve reusable platform capabilities, automate provisioning and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain highly available and resilient platforms with monitoring, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Support networking, observability, and security across distributed infrastructure.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve platform architecture.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

Cluster lifecycle management

GitOps

Linux administration

CI/CD practices

Automation mindset

Networking basics

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

X-team is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to modernize on-premises and bare-metal infrastructure for telecommunications-grade platforms. You will deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across private environments, automate infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps tools, and drive platform reliability and developer experience.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, security-first practices, and collaboration with developers and operations teams to deliver scalable, automated