Senior Platform & Infra Engineer - Kubernetes & CI/CD

Cerebras; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortanix is seeking a Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to architect, build, and evolve the infrastructure and tooling behind our products and engineering organization. This hands-on role spans cloud, on‑prem, data center, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD and software development.

You will lead design through implementation and drive scalable, automated solutions for production environments. You’ll work across internal infra, production environments, and customer deployments,

Qualifications

• 6+ years working in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps or related fields.
• Deep Kubernetes experience including troubleshooting complex environments.
• Experience with cloud infra (AWS/Azure/GCP) and/or on‑premises, bare‑metal or data centers.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/Ansible or similar tools.
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and automation.
• Strong Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infra architecture knowledge.
• Hands‑on with Ansible, Chef, or similar automation tools.
• Programming skills in Go, Python, Rust, or C++ for production tooling.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on‑premises, and hybrid environments.
• Lead complex infra initiatives and drive architecture from problem to production.
• Develop internal developer platforms, tools, and services to streamline development and deployment.
• Improve CI/CD platforms and pipelines for build, test, and feedback cycles.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operations workflows.
• Enhance developer experience and remove bottlenecks across the software lifecycle.
• Create reusable IaC, automation, and platform capabilities with scalable practices.
• Build systems with reliability, observability, security, and disaster recovery in mind.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, participate in incident response, and drive long‑term fixes.
• Evaluate tech choices and set engineering standards and best practices.

Skills

6+ yrs exp

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCP

Terraform/Ansible

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Go/Python/Rust/C++

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Job description

Fortanix is seeking a Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to architect, build, and evolve the infrastructure and tooling behind our products and engineering organization. This hands-on role spans cloud, on‑prem, data center, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD and software development.

You will lead design through implementation and drive scalable, automated solutions for production environments. You’ll work across internal infra, production environments, and customer deployments,