Platform Engineer

• Design and build the next-generation bare metal deployment pipeline to achieve sub-60-second provisioning times
• Develop and maintain Vultr’s bare metal automation and management toolkit
• Implement automated firmware update workflows across the bare metal fleet using IPMI/BMC protocols
• Build and optimize kexec-based fast boot and provisioning flows to minimize deployment latency
• Integrate cloud-init and instance metadata service for bare metal, enabling consistent configuration across VM and BM products
• Develop Puppet and Ansible modules for bare metal server configuration and lifecycle management
• Architect and implement VPC networking for bare metal instances, including network attach and routing automation
• Collaborate with the Provisioning and Orchestration teams to unify OS image pipelines and ensure bare metal integrates cleanly with Vultr’s reservation and assignment systems

Platform Engineer – Bare Metal

• Provision complete infrastructure stacks for new product launches. Recent examples include full EKS buildouts (Karpenter, Istio, Crossplane), PostgreSQL/Redis data stores with IAM authentication, CloudFront distributions, and Datadog instrumentation across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Lead Kubernetes platform evolution. Drive cluster upgrades, add-on lifecycle (Karpenter, Istio, Crossplane), pod identity migration, and namespace management across all environments.
• Design secure, scalable abstractions that hide infrastructure complexity and define the golden paths other teams build on.
• Own authentication infrastructure for internal and external products: Auth0 SSO, Azure AD/Entra, AWS IAM, EKS Pod Identity, and OIDC federation.
• Drive zero-trust infrastructure patterns. Rotating IAM credentials for RDS, per-app Istio authorization policies, and network isolation.
• Enable LLM-powered workflows (Bedrock, Claude Code, and similar) that let engineering teams move faster without sacrificing governance.

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Platform Engineer – Bare Metal

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