Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Autonomai Recruitment
- Location
- Mundelein, US
- Workplace
- On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Salary
- $123k–$163k
- Posted
- 3 days ago
- Source
- DevITJobs
Requirements:
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with large-scale compute infrastructure
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes from infrastructure and application perspectives
- Experience operating bare metal servers at scale
- Strong Linux engineering skills and ability to write Python
- Experience tuning low-latency environments and IP network performance, including routing
- Practical experience with disaster recovery and business continuity
- Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, researchers, and other stakeholders
Responsibilities:
- Build fault-tolerant distributed systems for research and investment workloads
- Develop software guardrails to enforce standards and make compute environments reproducible
- Scale and strengthen Kubernetes and bare metal infrastructure
- Use Python to automate and improve the platform
- Work with application developers to understand their needs and address infrastructure bottlenecks
- Support disaster recovery, business continuity, on-call operations, and planned maintenance
Technologies:
- AI
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Network
- Python
- DevOps
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We are a global investment firm developing a large-scale, on-premises compute platform for our research and investment teams. In this hands-on role, youll build the software control systems behind Kubernetes clusters, bare metal servers, and virtualized infrastructure, helping provide reliable, reproducible compute environments used across our business around the clock. Our environment includes Kubernetes on bare metal, RPM-based Linux, open-source virtualization, and an established AI platform with access to open-source and frontier models. Youll own complex challenges across Kubernetes, Linux, virtualization, and networking, combining software development with engineering the underlying compute platform.
last updated 43 week of 2026