Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes/Golang)
Posted 1 week ago by 1765354157
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes/Golang) role is a W2 contract position focused on managing and optimizing on-premise Kubernetes clusters and developing large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Kubernetes, Golang, and data infrastructure, with responsibilities including operational support, tooling development, and collaboration with engineering teams. This remote role requires a strong background in distributed systems and a proactive approach to operational excellence. Candidates must qualify as W2 employees and cannot be sponsored for visas.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own daily operational support for on-premise Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
- Develop and maintain a large-scale batch orchestration platform running 100,000+ jobs per day.
- Build migration tooling to facilitate the transfer of job configurations and workloads to new data platforms.
- Design and implement distributed data systems for high availability, resilience, and performance.
- Write efficient, high-performance Golang code for automation, tooling, and platform services.
- Create operational scripts and tooling (Bash, Python) for automation, observability, and infrastructure workflows.
- Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps standards across Kubernetes environments.
- Set up, manage, and optimize Prometheus, Grafana, and monitoring/alerting pipelines for full-stack observability.
- Troubleshoot distributed systems and Kubernetes workloads in production environments.
- Participate in system design interviews, Kubernetes design reviews, and cross-team technical discussions.
- Collaborate with platform, SRE, and data engineering teams to enhance platform resilience and operational efficiency.
Key Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in Data Infrastructure (Kubernetes), Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
- Deep hands-on operational experience with Kubernetes, especially in on-premise environments.
- Strong proficiency in Golang development (core language + concurrency + distributed systems patterns).
- Experience designing and supporting distributed systems at scale.
- Strong scripting skills (Bash/Shell; Python is a plus).
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, alerting systems, and end-to-end observability stacks.
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, container runtimes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building or maintaining systems that run large-scale workloads (tens of thousands of jobs).
- Strong analytical, debugging, and distributed system troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across engineering teams.
- High ownership mindset with a focus on reliability, sustainability, and operational excellence.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
Salary (Rate): £114,400 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes/Golang)
W2 Contract
Salary Range: $114,400 - $135,200 per year
Location: Cupertino, CA - Remote Role
Job Summary:
We are looking for a highly skilled Kubernetes & Data Infrastructure Engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes (on-prem), cloud platforms, and Golang-based software engineering. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, developing migration tooling, and supporting production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Own daily operational support for on-premise Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
- Develop and maintain a large-scale batch orchestration platform running 100,000+ jobs per day.
- Build migration tooling to facilitate the transfer of job configurations and workloads to new data platforms.
- Design and implement distributed data systems for high availability, resilience, and performance.
- Write efficient, high-performance Golang code for automation, tooling, and platform services.
- Create operational scripts and tooling (Bash, Python) for automation, observability, and infrastructure workflows.
- Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps standards across Kubernetes environments.
- Set up, manage, and optimize Prometheus, Grafana, and monitoring/alerting pipelines for full-stack observability.
- Troubleshoot distributed systems and Kubernetes workloads in production environments.
- Participate in system design interviews, Kubernetes design reviews, and cross-team technical discussions.
- Collaborate with platform, SRE, and data engineering teams to enhance platform resilience and operational efficiency.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in Data Infrastructure (Kubernetes), Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
- Deep hands-on operational experience with Kubernetes, especially in on-premise environments.
- Strong proficiency in Golang development (core language + concurrency + distributed systems patterns).
- Experience designing and supporting distributed systems at scale.
- Strong scripting skills (Bash/Shell; Python is a plus).
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, alerting systems, and end-to-end observability stacks.
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, container runtimes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building or maintaining systems that run large-scale workloads (tens of thousands of jobs).
- Strong analytical, debugging, and distributed system troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across engineering teams.
- High ownership mindset with a focus on reliability, sustainability, and operational excellence.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with hybrid cloud + on-prem Kubernetes architectures.
- Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and advanced Kubernetes networking.
- Exposure to data engineering workflows or batch processing frameworks.
- Experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize).
- Knowledge of infrastructure security, RBAC, certificates, and cluster hardening.
- Previous experience supporting critical production systems at a very large scale.
Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate.
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