29 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provision and harden Debian/Ubuntu operating systems on distributed bare-metal servers using PXE/iPXE and cloud-init.
- Build and maintain automated, repeatable zero-touch provisioning pipelines across multiple metro locations.
- Partner with hardware teams on BIOS and firmware baselines, NIC configuration, disk layouts, and diagnosis of disk, memory, NIC, and power faults.
- Deploy and operate highly available Kubernetes clusters across multiple failure domains, including control planes, worker nodes, CNI configuration, and cluster validation.
- Maintain the Layer 4 load balancer or keepalived VIP in front of kube-apiserver instances.
- Build and own CI/CD pipelines for software-defined data-plane deployments, including automated throughput and latency validation gates.
- Own observability, monitoring, alerting thresholds, operational runbooks, and GitOps-based fleet configuration management.
- Troubleshoot multi-metro networking involving VLANs, BGP, bonded NICs, SR-IOV, private connectivity, firewall rules, and segmentation.
- Execute zero-downtime rolling OS and Kubernetes upgrades and maintain tested etcd snapshot, restore, and upgrade runbooks.
- Administer centralized multi-cluster management planes, including RBAC, cluster registration, policy enforcement, and production/non-production isolation.
- Lead infrastructure incident response and on-call operations, 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.
- Hardware fluency with BMC/IPMI, SMART data, platform sensors, and diagnosis of disk, memory, NIC, and power faults.
- 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 comparable cluster management and fleet tooling.
- 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 cross-boundary troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated zero-downtime rolling upgrades of operating systems and Kubernetes across multi-node fleets.
- Experience operating highly available platforms with rigorous change management, automation, observability, and incident response.
- Ability to own an on-call shift and lead infrastructure incidents.
- Preferred familiarity with 6WIND VSR or other DPDK-based data planes, SDN or private-connectivity platforms such as Equinix Fabric and VyOS, LLM provider APIs and AI/agent gateway proxying, and geographically distributed infrastructure.
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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.