Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

Join Fortanix as a Senior/Staff Infrastructure & Platform Engineer. In this highly technical, hands-on role, you will architect, build, and evolve the infrastructure and tooling behind our products and engineering organization. You will work across cloud, on-premises, data center, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and software development. Your responsibilities will include designing and operating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure, improving internal developer platforms, and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues. The ideal candidate has a broad understanding of infrastructure architecture, deep expertise in Kubernetes and Linux, strong programming skills, and technical leadership experience.

• Architect, build, and evolve the infrastructure and tooling behind products and engineering organization.
• Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Identify complex infrastructure and engineering productivity challenges and drive solutions from problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production.

• The ideal candidate has a broad understanding of infrastructure architecture, deep expertise in Kubernetes and Linux, strong programming skills, and the technical leadership to take ambiguous problem statements and drive them from design through implementation
• Hands-on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar configuration management and automation technologies
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross-functional teams
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices
• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields
• Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services
• Strong experience with server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
• Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure; self-managed or bare-metal
• Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions through production
• If you’re interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment – we encourage you to apply!
• Hardware/server provisioning and data center operations experience
• Experience operating Kubernetes in on-premises, private cloud, or bare-metal environments
• Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity tooling
• Experience with distributed technologies such as Cassandra, etcd, Ceph, Kafka, or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Jenkins architecture or administration experience
• Enterprise customer deployment or customer-facing infrastructure experience
• Experience defining engineering productivity or platform reliability metrics
• Experience with VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, or network infrastructure
• Kubernetes CNI/CSI and networking/storage expertise
• Experience with Kubernetes operators, controllers, or Kubernetes-native tooling