Platform Engineer, Bare Metal

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VultrCloud Infrastructure

Remote - United StatesFull-TimeMiddle

Salary75,000 - 95,000 USD per year

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3+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure automation
Hands-on experience with bare metal server provisioning, including IPMI/BMC, PXE boot, and firmware management
Strong Linux systems engineering skills, deep understanding of the boot process, initramfs, kernel command line, and device configuration
Proficiency in PHP for backend service development in a LAMP environment
Experience using Redfish (or similar tools)
Experience building or maintaining instance metadata services or cloud-init integrations
Familiarity with automated configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent)
Ability to debug hardware and software issues across the full stack, from BMC firmware to application layer
Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration in a remote environment
Nice to have proficiency in Rust

Design and build the next-generation bare metal deployment pipeline to achieve sub-60-second provisioning times
Develop and maintain Vultr’s bare metal automation and management toolkit
Implement automated firmware update workflows across the bare metal fleet using IPMI/BMC protocols
Build and optimize kexec-based fast boot and provisioning flows to minimize deployment latency
Integrate cloud-init and instance metadata service for bare metal, enabling consistent configuration across VM and BM products
Develop Puppet and Ansible modules for bare metal server configuration and lifecycle management
Architect and implement VPC networking for bare metal instances, including network attach and routing automation
Collaborate with the Provisioning and Orchestration teams to unify OS image pipelines and ensure bare metal integrates cleanly with Vultr’s reservation and assignment systems

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