Bare Metal Platform Engineer—Fast Deployments & Automation

Webhosting; United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Professional development stipend

Paid time off

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer, Bare Metal to build and automate the infrastructure powering Vultr’s bare metal cloud platform. The ideal candidate works at the intersection of hardware and software, writing a PHP service, debugging IPMI timeouts, and automating firmware updates across 10,000 servers.

You will drive sub-60-second deployments and VM/BM integration. This high-impact role collaborates with Provisioning and Orchestration teams to accelerate provisioning,

Qualifications

• Experience building bare metal deployment pipelines and automation.
• Hands-on experience with IPMI/BMC and firmware management.
• Strong scripting and systems programming skills in Linux environments.
• Ability to design scalable, automated infrastructure across thousands of servers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the next-generation bare metal deployment pipeline to achieve sub-60-second provisioning times
• Develop and maintain Vultr’s bare metal automation and management toolkit
• Implement automated firmware update workflows across the bare metal fleet using IPMI/BMC protocols
• Build and optimize kexec-based fast boot and provisioning flows to minimize deployment latency
• Integrate cloud-init and instance metadata service for bare metal, enabling consistent configuration across VM and BM products
• Develop Puppet and Ansible modules for bare metal server configuration and lifecycle management
• Architect and implement VPC networking for bare metal instances, including network attach and routing automation
• Collaborate with the Provisioning and Orchestration teams to unify OS image pipelines and ensure bare metal integrates cleanly with Vultr’s reservation and assignment systems

Skills

PHP service

IPMI

Firmware updates

Automation

Scripting

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer, Bare Metal to build and automate the infrastructure powering Vultr’s bare metal cloud platform. The ideal candidate works at the intersection of hardware and software, writing a PHP service, debugging IPMI timeouts, and automating firmware updates across 10,000 servers.

You will drive sub-60-second deployments and VM/BM integration. This high-impact role collaborates with Provisioning and Orchestration teams to accelerate provisioning,