Infrastructure Engineer – Kubernetes Platform

About the role

We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to evolve and scale our Kubernetes platform, a core component of Kraken’s next‑generation infrastructure. You will work with senior engineers across SRE, networking and security to deliver a stable, scalable and secure foundation for all workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Gain hands‑on experience with Kubernetes cluster operations, deployments, networking and scalability across multiple datacenters.
• Build, operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Triage and organize infrastructure issues, learning internal systems and best practices.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to solve complex problems and reduce operational burden.
• Develop automation and tooling to improve team efficiency and reduce toil.
• Participate in on‑call rotation to maintain platform reliability.

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure/Platform/DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Strong passion for providing technical guidance to stakeholders with excellent communication skills.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Deep Linux knowledge, comfortable with the shell, processes, networking basics, file systems and permissions.
• Fundamental networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, ports, IP addressing, basic routing, TLS, PKI).
• Good grasp of Kubernetes internals (control plane, scheduling, networking, storage).
• Familiarity with advanced Kubernetes networking or orchestration tools such as Cilium.
• Ability to leverage AI tools and agents (e.g., Claude, OpenAI) to deliver business value.
• Experience scripting or programming in Python, Bash, Go or similar languages.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Linux
• TCP/IP
• DNS
• TLS / PKI
• Cilium
• Python
• Bash
• Go
• AI tools (Claude, OpenAI)
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) – nice to have