Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. vCluster Labs is a venture-backed tech startup pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will manage multi-cloud infrastructure, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and act as the first user of vCluster products, enhancing internal services and providing critical feedback to product teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve our multi-cloud infrastructure spread across AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, handle patching, manage access, and enhance to ensure our tooling has robust alerts and metrics
• Drive the improvement of GitHub CI pipelines
• Create secure, repeatable testing environments and automate pipeline updates to streamline the developer experience
• Architect and host infrastructure for engineering development, including internal services and vCluster-specific platforms
• Empower engineers to build pipelines securely through education and tooling
• Act as the first and most critical user of our products
• Push vCluster features to their limits to create useful internal tools, discovering bugs and providing feedback to Engineering to shape the future of our software
• Focus on automating updates and managing infrastructure as code using Terraform Spacelift
• Give the team the ability to create infrastructure on demand, ensuring scalability and consistency
• Manage a variety of Kanban tasks via Linear, ranging from improving observability to handling GitHub policy requests, release engineering, and access management

Skills

• 5+ years Platform Engineering or DevOps, with a focus on modern, cloud-native technologies
• Expert in HCL and Terraform Modules, and deep experience administering Kubernetes clusters
• Extensive experience with GitHub Pipelines and know how to optimize them for speed and security
• Hands-on experience managing and deploying in public clouds, specifically AWS or GCP
• Thrive in environments that reject legacy tech
• Experience writing automation scripts with Bash or Python
• Proficiency in Go or Python is a significant plus
• Relevant certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or experience writing Kubernetes Operators
• Basic experience writing technical documentation and a willingness to build AI Automation in the documentation to contribute to our knowledge base
• Familiarity with Linear for task management

Benefits

• Offers Equity
• Offers Bonus
• Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country)
• Flexible Working Schedule: You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
• Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

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