About the Role

Must Have

• Infrastructure-as-Code & GitOps: Absolute requirement to manage, provision, and deploy platform workloads declaratively using Argo CD or Flux alongside Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.

• Kubernetes Installation & Deployment: Hands-on capability to deploy onto bare-metal Kubernetes or install and maintain Kubernetes clusters on-premises, including cluster lifecycle management and upgrades.

• Linux Systems Administration: Strong Linux system administration foundation for managing containerized and virtualized workloads at scale.

• Timezone & Location Alignment: Offshore candidate located within a 2–3 hour time difference window of AEST (eg. Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia).

Nice to Have

• Bare-Metal Infrastructure Experience: Direct experience managing physical/bare-metal server infrastructure (preferred should-have, but not a dealbreaker if candidate can deploy/install K8s on-premises).

• Target K8s Tooling & Distributions: Hands-on experience with Rancher RKE2, KubeVirt (virtualization on Kubernetes), and Gateway APIs.

• Distributed Systems Architecture: Understanding of distributed systems design, high availability, and fault tolerance.

• Telecommunications / ISP Domain Knowledge: Prior experience in telco or service-provider operational and technology environments.

• Advanced Networking & Service Mesh: Practical experience with container networking, BGP, Cilium/eBPF, load balancing, or service mesh (Istio, Linkerd).

• Automation Scripting: Practical programming skills in Go or Python for custom tooling and automation.

• Observability Stack: Setup and configuration of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or Jaeger.

Personal Traits

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A shift-left mindset with a strong focus on security, automation, and reliability.

• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on operational excellence and platform stability.

• Professional, constructive, and friendly, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and willingness to help others succeed.