Site Reliability Engineer II - Build a Hybrid Kubernetes Platform

Kalmbach Feeds; Bellaire Gardens (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kalmbach Feeds is building a small SRE team to shape the next generation of our hybrid platform, spanning company data centers and Microsoft Azure. You’ll own architecture decisions and drive standards as we deploy production RKE2 clusters with Rancher, AKS, and disaster‑recovery plans.

You’ll work hands‑on from rack to cloud, debugging outages, improving observability, and partnering with infrastructure teams. Bring practical curiosity and a bias toward automation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in SRE, platform, systems engineering, or DevOps with hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
• Hands-on data-center, servers, virtualization, storage, and networking experience.
• Strong Linux fundamentals; TCP/IP, DNS, TLS are essential.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response; calm during outages.
• Scripting in Bash, Python, or Go; Git; familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps, or IaC.

Responsibilities

• Operate production and non-production Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, node lifecycle, networking, ingress, DNS, certificates, and capacity.
• Troubleshoot control‑plane, scheduling, CoreDNS, and memory issues; improve observability and runbooks.
• Support data-center hardware, virtualization, storage, and networking; collaborate with infra teams on networking and storage.
• Assist with disaster recovery, backups, and connectivity between data centers and cloud; document DR plans.
• Join on-call rotation and reduce toil through automation and IaC.

Skills

Kubernetes ops

SRE / platform eng

Linux fundamentals

Networking DNS TLS

Automation / IaC

Scripting Bash Python Go

Git & CI/CD

Tools

RKE2/Rancher

AKS

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Kalmbach Feeds is building a small SRE team to shape the next generation of our hybrid platform, spanning company data centers and Microsoft Azure. You’ll own architecture decisions and drive standards as we deploy production RKE2 clusters with Rancher, AKS, and disaster‑recovery plans.

You’ll work hands‑on from rack to cloud, debugging outages, improving observability, and partnering with infrastructure teams. Bring practical curiosity and a bias toward automation.