Cloud - Bare Metal Infrastructure Engineer

This is an opportunity to build and scale the physical infrastructure behind a modern cloud platform, taking a new colocation site from initial deployment to production and beyond. You will design and automate the complete lifecycle of bare metal servers, from hardware discovery and provisioning to maintenance and retirement. Working closely with network engineering and Kubernetes platform teams, you will help make physical infrastructure as accessible and reliable as cloud capacity. Your work will establish the technical foundations and operational standards for future sites and a fleet of thousands of hosts. This role offers significant ownership, technical influence, and the chance to shape infrastructure at the intersection of hardware, automation, and cloud-native systems.

• Hands-on experience building and operating automation for bare metal server fleets in data centers or colocation environments.

• Practical experience with both physical infrastructure and software-driven fleet management, including working directly with hardware and colocation providers.

• Strong programming skills in Go or Python.

• Experience designing reliable systems using reconciliation loops, idempotent operations, and failure-tolerant automation.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to understand and debug infrastructure tools beyond their abstraction layers.

• Experience managing real-world infrastructure failures, such as faulty hardware batches, unstable baseboard management controllers (BMCs), or interrupted rollouts.

• Deep knowledge of Linux and solid networking fundamentals, including DHCP, PXE, DNS, and BGP.

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and the ability to design effective integration points between physical infrastructure and the clusters running on it.

• Clear communication skills, sound technical judgment, and comfort working in ambiguous environments.

• Willingness to challenge assumptions and raise concerns when technical plans or proposed approaches need reconsideration.

• Experience operating bare metal fleets at the scale of thousands of hosts.

• Previous involvement in an early-stage data center or bare metal infrastructure build-out.

• Experience managing hybrid infrastructure or migrating workloads between public cloud environments and owned hardware.

• Familiarity with DCIM/IPAM tools such as NetBox or Nautobot, or provisioning technologies such as Ironic, Metal3, Tinkerbell, or MAAS.

• Experience developing reconcilers or state machines for physical infrastructure.

• Hardware expertise covering component diagnostics, burn-in tooling, firmware management, Redfish, or IPMI at fleet scale.

• Experience building internal platforms or APIs for infrastructure teams.

• Location near colocation facilities or the ability to visit them regularly.

Candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification, as relevant experience and transferable skills are also valued.