Hybrid Kubernetes & Infra SRE II

Kalmbach Feeds Inc.; Upper Sandusky (OH); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kalmbach Feeds Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to own and operate a hybrid platform across on-prem data centers and Microsoft Azure.

You will manage production RKE2-Rancher clusters, AKS integrations, and disaster recovery, spanning from hardware to cloud, with a hands-on, architectural voice. You will join a small SRE team, handle upgrades, observability, and on-call incidents, and push automation, IaC, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in SRE, platform, systems engineering, or DevOps, with hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
• Hands-on data-center, colocation, or equivalent experience with servers, virtualization, storage, and networking.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, and TLS.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response; clear communication and a calm, methodical approach during outages.
• Scripting in Bash, Python, or Go; Git experience; familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps, or IaC practices using any toolset.

Responsibilities

• Operate production and non-production RKE2/Rancher Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades and capacity.
• Manage Kubernetes on physical servers and virtual machines, including networking, storage, and hardware lifecycle.
• Support AKS and Azure connectivity; implement disaster‑recovery plans and verify backups.
• Join the on-call rotation; investigate incidents and reduce toil through automation and IaC.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux fundamentals

Incident response

SRE/DevOps

Automation

Tools

RKE2

Rancher

AKS

Azure Container Registry

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Kalmbach Feeds Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to own and operate a hybrid platform across on-prem data centers and Microsoft Azure.

You will manage production RKE2-Rancher clusters, AKS integrations, and disaster recovery, spanning from hardware to cloud, with a hands-on, architectural voice. You will join a small SRE team, handle upgrades, observability, and on-call incidents, and push automation, IaC, and CI/CD practices.