Staff Kubernetes Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & On-Prem

Equinix, Inc; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 118,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Equinix, Inc. is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to manage and evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure across on‑prem and AWS environments from Dallas. This hands‑on role emphasizes platform reliability and scalability with ownership and impact.

You will collaborate with Principal Engineers and internal customers to design Kubernetes solutions, provisioning clusters and driving automation and IaC initiatives for a robust, scalable platform.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Kubernetes ops including upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in Golang and Python; able to translate requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Kubernetes-based infra across on-prem and AWS.
• Gather requirements and design Kubernetes solutions with stakeholders.
• Provision and manage clusters focusing on performance and reliability.
• Perform OS updates, patching, upgrades, and platform maintenance.
• Monitor health and improve stability; troubleshoot issues.
• Contribute to automation and IaC initiatives.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Kubernetes ops

AWS experience

Golang

Python

GitHub usage

GitHub Actions

Requirements translation

Problem solving

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes networking

Kyverno

Backstage

Observability tooling

Job description

Equinix, Inc. is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to manage and evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure across on‑prem and AWS environments from Dallas. This hands‑on role emphasizes platform reliability and scalability with ownership and impact.

You will collaborate with Principal Engineers and internal customers to design Kubernetes solutions, provisioning clusters and driving automation and IaC initiatives for a robust, scalable platform.