22 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provision and harden Debian/Ubuntu operating systems on bare-metal servers across multiple metro locations using PXE/iPXE and cloud-init.
- Build and maintain zero-touch infrastructure provisioning pipelines and partner on BIOS, firmware, NIC, disk, and hardware fault diagnosis.
- Deploy and operate highly available Kubernetes clusters across multiple failure domains, including control planes, worker nodes, CNI configuration, and cluster validation.
- Maintain Layer 4 load balancing or keepalived VIPs in front of kube-apiserver instances.
- Build and own CI/CD pipelines for software-defined data-plane deployment, including automated throughput and latency validation gates.
- Own data-plane monitoring, alerting thresholds, operational runbooks, and end-to-end connectivity validation.
- Troubleshoot VLANs, BGP peering, bonded NICs, private connectivity, firewall rules, segmentation, and related network faults.
- Plan and execute zero-downtime rolling OS and Kubernetes upgrades and maintain tested etcd snapshot and restore procedures.
- Administer centralized multi-cluster management planes, including RBAC, cluster registration, policy enforcement, and production/non-production isolation.
- Drive GitOps-based fleet configuration management and maintain consistent, auditable, drift-free clusters.
- Lead infrastructure incident response, participate in follow-the-sun on-call, conduct blameless postmortems, and eliminate recurring failure modes through automation and improved runbooks.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience provisioning and hardening Linux/Ubuntu systems at scale with PXE/iPXE, cloud-init, BIOS/firmware management, and OS hardening.
- Ability to diagnose BMC/IPMI, SMART, platform sensor, disk, memory, NIC, and power faults and coordinate vendor warranty replacement.
- Strong experience deploying and operating RKE2 or kubeadm Kubernetes clusters on bare metal, including etcd, kube-apiserver high availability, CNI, Multus, SR-IOV, and multi-cluster fleet management.
- Production experience with Rancher Prime, Rancher, or a comparable centralized management plane.
- Experience with GitOps or pipeline-driven infrastructure deployment and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, or Fleet.
- Hands-on networking experience with VLANs, BGP, bonded NICs, SR-IOV, and private connectivity, including troubleshooting across infrastructure boundaries.
- Demonstrated experience performing zero-downtime rolling upgrades of operating systems and Kubernetes across multi-node fleets.
- Experience operating highly available platforms, owning on-call shifts, and leading infrastructure incident response.
- Strong automation mindset with experience delivering repeatable, auditable everything-as-code operations.
- Preferred familiarity with 6WIND VSR or other DPDK-based data planes, SR-IOV NIC tuning, and data-plane performance validation.
- Preferred familiarity with SDN or private-connectivity platforms such as Equinix Fabric or VyOS.
- Preferred familiarity with LLM provider APIs and AI/agent gateway proxying patterns.
- Preferred experience operating infrastructure across geographically distributed sites.
Benefits
- The role includes a follow-the-sun on-call rotation and infrastructure incident-response responsibilities.
- Equinix provides an equal employment opportunity process and disability accommodations for qualified candidates.
- The position is a new role within the organization.
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About Equinix
Equinix is a public digital infrastructure company that operates a global platform of colocation and interconnection data centers for enterprises, cloud and network providers. It sells space, power, and connectivity, plus services such as Equinix Fabric, Network Edge, and Equinix Metal for hybrid multicloud and edge deployments. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it is listed on NASDAQ (EQIX) and runs hundreds of IBX facilities across major metros worldwide.