Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators. They are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer, Bare Metal to build and automate the infrastructure that powers Vultr’s bare metal cloud platform, focusing on enhancing deployment speed and integration with existing systems.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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, and strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration in a remote environment
- Nice to have proficiency in Rust
Benefits
- 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
- Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
- Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
- $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription
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