Member of Technical Staff, Kubernetes and Bare Metal Engineering

Bangalore · India (Bangalore - Prestige Dynasty Phase 2) · Posted Oct 16, 2026

At a glance

The Member of Technical Staff (MTS4) will design, deploy, and operate large-scale bare-metal Kubernetes platforms to support engineering teams. This role involves owning critical technical areas, driving reliability and security improvements, and leading complex incident resolution within the Production Engineering team.

Design and evolve highly available bare-metal Kubernetes architectures including control planes, worker nodes, and rack topology.
Define standards for cluster provisioning, upgrades, scaling, node replacement, and decommissioning.
Design secure multi-tenant platforms using RBAC, OIDC/SSO, namespace isolation, and network policies.
Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters across development, staging, and production environments.
Own day-two operations including upgrades, capacity expansion, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
Build and maintain GitOps and CI/CD workflows using tools like Argo CD, Kubespray, and Ansible.
Participate in follow-the-sun production on-call rotations.
Lead complex incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
Implement and operate Kubernetes networking using CNI technologies like Cilium and BGP.
Integrate Kubernetes with enterprise storage platforms including Portworx and Pure Storage FlashArray.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Six or more years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, or production engineering.
At least three years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production, with significant bare-metal experience.
Strong Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, performance-tuning, and security-hardening skills.
Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals including API server, etcd, controllers, scheduler, and kubelet.
Strong knowledge of Kubernetes networking including CNI plugins, Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies, DNS, and TCP/IP.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation using Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic/ELK, Fluentd, or Fluent Bit.
Proficiency in Python, Go, or another scripting/programming language.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience operating KubeVirt or other virtualization platforms on Kubernetes.
Experience with Portworx, CSI, and Pure Storage platforms.
Experience designing multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms with OIDC/Okta, RBAC, and self-service onboarding.
Knowledge of data-center networking including BGP, MLAG, ECMP, spine-leaf architectures, and ToR integration.
Experience operating OpenStack in production.
Experience with GitHub Actions runners or other CI/CD infrastructure on Kubernetes.
Experience with backup, restore, disaster recovery, and capacity management.

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