Platform Engineer - Cloud Native

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. They are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineer - Cloud Native to harden and scale the infrastructure powering Vultr's global cloud platform.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible Terraform and Go
• Develop and enhance core services behind VKE VLB (HAProxy) VCR (Container Registry) and Inference
• Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals (scheduler kubelet controllers CRDs)
• Design implement and improve container runtime integrations (containerd runc OCI)
• Architect CI/CD improvements and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems
• Troubleshoot complex issues across networking load balancing containers and distributed systems
• Harden platform infrastructure through security best practices including vulnerability scanning container image signing admission controllers and secrets management
• Contribute directly to Vultr's open-source ecosystem (terraform provider crossplane vultr-cli govultr)
• Improve overall reliability observability and operability of cloud-native services
• Collaborate with product platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure
• Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and internals including scheduler kubelet and CRDs
• Proficiency in Go and scripting languages (Python Bash) for automation and tooling
• Deep knowledge of container security including image scanning runtime isolation and admission control
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible) and CI/CD pipeline design
• Familiarity with observability stack (Prometheus Grafana alerting) and incident response practices
• Excellent problem-solving skills across networking load balancing and distributed systems