Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer — Scale & Reliability

Autonomai Recruitment; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Software Platform Engineer to build and maintain on-premises compute environments for a global investment firm in Chicago. You will own the software control systems behind Kubernetes clusters, bare metal servers, and virtualization, ensuring reliable, reproducible compute across the business.

The role emphasizes writing Python, coordinating with researchers and developers, and contributing to disaster recovery and operations for continuous availability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience with large-scale compute infrastructure.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge from infrastructure and application perspectives.
• Experience managing bare metal servers at scale.
• Strong Linux engineering skills and ability to write Python.
• Experience tuning low-latency environments and IP network performance.

Responsibilities

• Build fault-tolerant distributed systems for research and investment workloads.
• Develop software guardrails that enforce standards and reproducibility.
• Scale and harden Kubernetes and bare metal infrastructure.
• Write Python to automate and improve the platform.
• Partner with developers to remove infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity, on-call support and planned maintenance.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Python

Distributed systems

Tools

Bare metal servers

Open-source virtualization

Networking

Job description

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Software Platform Engineer to build and maintain on-premises compute environments for a global investment firm in Chicago. You will own the software control systems behind Kubernetes clusters, bare metal servers, and virtualization, ensuring reliable, reproducible compute across the business.

The role emphasizes writing Python, coordinating with researchers and developers, and contributing to disaster recovery and operations for continuous availability.