DevOps Engineer
Vultr
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $75,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AnsibleCloudDistributed SystemsGoHAProxyKubernetesLinuxNGINXTerraform
About the role
- Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Go
- Develop and enhance core services behind VKE, VLB (HAProxy), VCR (Container Registry), and Inference
- Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals (scheduler, kubelet, controllers, CRDs)
- Design, implement, and improve container runtime integrations (containerd, runc, OCI)
- Architect CI/CD improvements and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems
- Troubleshoot complex issues across networking, load balancing, containers, and distributed systems
- Contribute directly to Vultr’s open-source ecosystem (terraform provider, crossplane, vultr-cli, govultr)
- Improve overall reliability, observability, and operability of cloud-native services
- Collaborate with product, platform, and infrastructure teams on feature delivery
Requirements
- 3–5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles
- Strong experience with Kubernetes internals (not just kubectl usage)
- Proficiency with Go or willingness to become Go-first
- Experience with container runtimes (containerd, runc), OCI images, CNI/CSI
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible
- Solid Linux fundamentals and troubleshooting
- Experience with load balancers or proxies (HAProxy, Envoy, NGINX) a plus
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure concepts
Benefits
- 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
- Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
- Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
- $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription
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Hard skills
AnsibleTerraformGoKubernetescontainerdruncOCICI/CDLinuxload balancing