Platform Engineer

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Responsibilities - Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible Terraform and Go - Develop and enhance core services behind VKE VLB (HAProxy) VCR (Container Registry) and Inference - Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals (scheduler kubelet controllers CRDs) - Design implement and improve container runtime integrations (containerd runc OCI) - Architect CI/CD improvements and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems - Troubleshoot complex issues across networking load balancing containers and distributed systems - Harden platform infrastructure through security best practices including vulnerability scanning container image signing admission controllers and secrets management - Contribute directly to Vultr's open-source ecosystem (terraform provider crossplane vultr-cli govultr) - Improve overall reliability observability and operability of cloud-native services - Collaborate with product platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery

Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure - Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and internals including scheduler kubelet and CRDs - Proficiency in Go and scripting languages (Python Bash) for automation and tooling - Deep knowledge of container security including image scanning runtime isolation and admission control - Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible) and CI/CD pipeline design - Familiarity with observability stack (Prometheus Grafana alerting) and incident response practices - Excellent problem-solving skills across networking load balancing and distributed systems Compensation $90,000 - $100,000 Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.

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