Cloud Platform Engineer – Kubernetes​/Hybrid Infrastructure

Position:
Cloud Platform Engineer (Bare metal and AWS)

Location:

Austin, TX - onsite M-F

Base salary plus bonus, with strong PTO

Our client is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to help design, operate, and evolve a Linux and Kubernetes platform supporting data-intensive production systems. The focus of this role is platform stability, scalability, and long-term reliability, across both cloud and on-prem environments.

This is a platform engineering role. It is not site reliability engineering, not release engineering, and not application development.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate production Kubernetes clusters, including environments with 100+ nodes
• Design, maintain, and improve Linux and Kubernetes platforms for data-heavy workloads
• Help deploy and support new cloud (AWS) and on-prem / bare metal infrastructure environments
• Support offline and batch-oriented processing systems that rely on the platform
• Build and maintain internal platform and deployment tooling
• Troubleshoot platform-level issues related to performance, reliability, networking, and scale
• Partner with system and application teams to support critical shared infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating production Kubernetes environments
• Experience running Kubernetes in bare-metal or on-prem environments
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture and internals
• Experience deploying workloads and debugging production issues in Kubernetes
• Ability to build automation or tooling in Python or Go
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals and networking
• Experience working in hybrid cloud and on-prem environments

Helpful Experience

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code or Git Ops workflows in support of platform operations
• Exposure to GPU-enabled infrastructure or virtualization, including Nvidia-based environments
• Background in infrastructure-heavy, platform, or systems teams