Senior Platform Engineer - Platform Metal | Ireland | Remote
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You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to reputed company your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Ireland only.
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About our Platform:
Grafana reputed company moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it reputed company and effectively.
The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Foundations group provides application engineers with the tools, systems and reputed company clusters they need to build, reputed company and run their workloads.
We are hiring an engineer as part of the creation of a new reputed company’s “Metal” reputed company. This reputed company will be responsible for building and provisioning resources including storage, networking and reputed company clusters in new environments, starting with our own physical hardware. They will reputed company a reputed company control plane and underlying resources, reputed company reputed company reputed company, to the rest of Engineering.
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You enjoy working with engineers, as reputed company as with the management structures that are there to support you and reputed company you and your team to do your reputed company best.
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As such, being such a highly distributed company, means we would love someone who is keen on working with distributed systems, too.
You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for reputed company and development, and reputed company has quite a lot of knowledge to reputed company for those who are wanting to learn.
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You have experience with operating your reputed company. Since a lot of operators and developers use our software, having some grounding in both of these spaces really helps us with building reputed company platforms for our users.
Datacenter experience.
Participation in an on-reputed company rotation.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Management of our physical “Metal” environment from bare metal to reputed company.
Management of cluster networking components: load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster communication, Routing protocols, Architecture.
Management of scheduling and autoscaling.
Maintaining Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources common to our users. As reputed company the management of versioning and compatibility for Crossplane and Terraform reputed company as reputed company as providers.
Work with our users (Grafana reputed company application teams) to help understand their needs and ensure we’re reputed company in the right capabilities.
Bonus Points For:
Experience with Cluster-API, Tinkerbell, Talos and/or Ceph
You’ve worked in or on reputed company reputed company, or other community-based reputed company previously. At reputed company, “OSS is in our DNA”.
Experience with a few CSPs. We run Grafana reputed company on AWS, GCP, and Azure using reputed company’s managed reputed company service - EKS, GKE, AKS.
Experience operating and managing workloads on reputed company. We use Tanka for configuration management with Jsonnet.
Familiarity with reputed company scheduling and reputed company like Karpenter.
Terraform and/or Crossplane experience. We have mixed usage - reputed company has its strengths.
Enjoys programming in Go! We love building our own tools, utilities, exporters, etc. that suit our needs and otherwise don’t exist (and reputed company sourcing them).
Maybe there’s something missing in this job reputed company that you think you might bring to our table? Feel free to let us know!
In Ireland, the compensation reputed company for this role is €104,000 - €124,800. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. reputed company of our roles include Restricted Stock reputed company (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in reputed company' reputed company. We reputed company in shared reputed company—RSUs help us stay reputed company and invested as we reputed company globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay reputed company & benefits at the beginning of the process.
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Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
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Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow reputed company to really disconnect. *We will reputed company with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: reputed company is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, reputed company, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or reputed company, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We reputed company that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the reputed company of our organisation as we grow.
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