Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Form3 as a Platform Engineer and build and scale the physical infrastructure. You will manage and scale high-performance bare metal systems, work with server hardware, oversee firmware updates, and build automation around server provisioning. The role focuses on developing and maintaining resilient, scalable distributed systems. You will streamline data center maintenance, scale UK data centers, improve infrastructure performance, and improve automation of infrastructure provisioning. This is a hands-on engineering position at the intersection of hardware and software, requiring expertise in system installation, infrastructure as code, hardware lifecycle management, networking, virtualization, and ideally, Kubernetes.

Requirements

• Solid grounding in system installation, including operating system installations, building system images, and automated server provisioning
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code patterns and practices (Terraform and Ansible are a plus)
• Familiarity with hardware lifecycle, including firmware patching, BIOS configuration, and component troubleshooting
• Knowledge of networking, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, VLANs, and link aggregation
• Strong understanding of virtualization technologies like KVM and QEMU and their interaction with underlying hardware
• Understanding of Kubernetes and its intricacies when run on bare metal infrastructure (ideally)
• Enthusiasm towards ensuring a high degree of service reliability, always putting the stability & safety of our products at the forefront

Responsibilities

• Manage, operate, and ensure the reliability of hypervisors (bare metal machines) for VM provisioning and management
• Deploy, maintain, and update software tools critical to bare metal and VM provisioning such as Digital Rebar and Apache CloudStack
• Continuously improve our data center maintenance process, collaborating in cross-team efforts to ensure robust and efficient operations
• Be on-call to ensure the seamless performance and uptime of the infrastructure & services, responding promptly to any issues or incidents

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience running Kubernetes in cloud environments is a real plus
• A background in Software Engineering and solid programming experience is beneficial but not essential (preferably Go but we're flexible on this)