Cloud Native Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Automation

Vultr; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare premiums

401(k) match

Professional development

Paid holidays & PTO

Sabbatical program

Remote office stipend

Internet reimbursement

Gym reimbursement

Wellable subscription

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer - Cloud Native to harden and scale its global cloud platform. This role emphasizes a security-minded engineer with deep Kubernetes, container runtimes, and automation expertise.

You will operate across the full stack in a high-growth environment with visibility and impact. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in platform engineering, strong Go and scripting skills, and hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible to drive CI/CD and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and internals including scheduler kubelet and CRDs.
• Proficiency in Go and scripting languages (Python Bash) for automation and tooling.
• Deep knowledge of container security including image scanning runtime isolation and admission control.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible) and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Familiarity with observability stack (Prometheus Grafana alerting) and incident response practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills across networking load balancing and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible Terraform and Go.
• Develop and enhance core services behind VKE VLB (HAProxy) VCR (Container Registry) and Inference.
• Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals (scheduler kubelet controllers CRDs).
• Design implement and improve container runtime integrations (containerd runc OCI).
• Architect CI/CD improvements and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across networking load balancing containers and distributed systems.
• Harden platform infrastructure through security best practices including vulnerability scanning container image signing admission controllers and secrets management.
• Contribute directly to Vultr's open-source ecosystem (terraform provider crossplane vultr-cli govultr).
• Improve overall reliability observability and operability of cloud-native services.
• Collaborate with product platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

Go programming

Python / Bash scripting

Cloud infrastructure

Container security

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer - Cloud Native to harden and scale its global cloud platform. This role emphasizes a security-minded engineer with deep Kubernetes, container runtimes, and automation expertise.

You will operate across the full stack in a high-growth environment with visibility and impact. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in platform engineering, strong Go and scripting skills, and hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible to drive CI/CD and