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

• Design and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and services
• Lead the architecture and build of high-throughput data streaming pipelines
• Develop and own observability for systems: metrics, tracing, structured logging, dashboards, alerts and SLOs
• Implement application instrumentation and collaborate with platform teams to standardize telemetry and monitoring practices
• Use AWS native services to deliver robust solutions
• Design and enforce secure networking and firewall architectures
• Write production-quality code and tests in at least one major language
• Own CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Drive projects end-to-end: translate product requirements, create execution plans, identify risks
• Mentor engineers and improve team practices around reliability, scalability, and operability

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