Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Platform Engineer (On-Prem Kubernetes & Bare-Metal Infrastructure)

Job Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Infrastructure Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in bare-metal environments and enterprise platform deployments. This role is focused on designing, deploying, and managing fully on-premise infrastructure platforms without reliance on public cloud providers.

The ideal candidate should possess deep experience in Kubernetes on bare metal, virtualization technologies, Linux systems, networking, storage platforms, and deployment of enterprise-grade middleware/services across physical and virtualized infrastructure.

This is a strategic project with significant long-term growth and expansion potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage bare-metal Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm
• Configure and maintain virtualization environments using KVM, Proxmox, VMware, or similar hypervisors
• Deploy and manage enterprise infrastructure components including:
  • SMTP servers
  • RabbitMQ / Kafka
  • Keycloak
  • Databases
  • Internal platform services
• Build and maintain infrastructure on physical servers and virtual machines hosted on bare-metal hypervisors
• Implement and manage storage systems such as NFS and Ceph
• Configure and maintain self-hosted monitoring and observability stacks
• Troubleshoot complex Linux, networking, infrastructure, and platform-level issues
• Support internal data pipelines and infrastructure integrations (preferred)
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence
• Collaborate closely with engineering and delivery teams for infrastructure optimization and project execution

Required Skills & Experience

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with:
  • Bare-metal Kubernetes (kubeadm)
  • Linux system administration
  • Networking fundamentals
  • Physical server infrastructure
• Experience with virtualization technologies:
  • KVM
  • Proxmox
  • VMware
• Expertise in deploying and managing:
  • RabbitMQ / Kafka
  • Keycloak
  • SMTP
  • Databases
  • Enterprise middleware platforms
• Experience with storage technologies:
  • NFS
  • Ceph
• Experience managing self-hosted monitoring stacks
• Strong troubleshooting and infrastructure engineering capabilities
• Ability to work independently in complex on-prem enterprise environments

Preferred Skills

• Experience with internal data pipelines
• Exposure to platform engineering and enterprise infrastructure automation
• Experience working in highly secure/on-prem enterprise environments

Important Note

This role is heavily focused on deep infrastructure engineering within fully on-premise environments. Candidates with primarily cloud-native DevOps backgrounds focused mainly on AWS/Azure/GCP without strong bare-metal infrastructure experience may not be suitable for this opportunity.