Staff Kubernetes Engineer: On-Prem & Cloud Infra

Devopsroles; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to maintain and evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure across on-premises and AWS environments. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership and impact on platform reliability and scalability.

You will work closely with Principal Engineers and internal customers to design, build, and maintain Kubernetes environments tailored to business needs, while ensuring operational excellence of the

Qualifications

• Kubernetes cluster operations, upgrades, troubleshooting.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Working knowledge of Golang and Python.
• Experience using GitHub for code and collaboration.
• Hands-on GitHub Actions for CI/CD and automation.
• Experience managing infrastructure maintenance, patching, and upgrades.
• Ability to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong problem-solving and proactive engineering mindset.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure across on-prem and AWS environments.
• Work with Principal Engineers and internal customers to design Kubernetes-based solutions.
• Provision, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Perform OS updates, Kubernetes upgrades, and patching across the stack.
• Monitor platform health and proactively improve system stability and efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and platform issues.
• Contribute to automation, tooling, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
• Participate in team on-call rotations.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Golang

Python

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Infrastructure as Code

Troubleshooting

On-call rotations

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kyverno

Backstage

Job description

Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to maintain and evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure across on-premises and AWS environments. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership and impact on platform reliability and scalability.

You will work closely with Principal Engineers and internal customers to design, build, and maintain Kubernetes environments tailored to business needs, while ensuring operational excellence of the