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Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform
Join Kraken's Core Infrastructure team to evolve and scale the OpenStack platform, ensuring a stable and secure foundation for all workloads.
Posted by employer 3 weeks ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 week ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Ability to leverage AI tools and agents such as Claude and OpenAI to efficiently deliver business value.
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Infrastructure Engineer will focus on evolving and scaling Kraken's OpenStack platform, ensuring a reliable foundation for the company's engineering efforts. Key skills include hands-on experience with OpenStack and Ceph, strong Linux knowledge, and a solid understanding of distributed systems. This position is ideal for candidates with over three years of experience in infrastructure or DevOps roles, who are comfortable collaborating with senior engineers and tackling complex technical challenges. The team emphasizes a culture of support and efficiency, contributing to a robust financial infrastructure.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 2, 2026. Last confirmed on Kraken's careers page October 21, 2026.
- Kubernetes appears in 59.8% of 127 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States; Ceph appears in 0.8% of 127 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, Ceph, GCP, Go, Kubernetes.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Kraken targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform role at Kraken.
From the original posting
Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.
The Core Infrastructure – Platforms team is responsible for the foundational platform that powers all Kraken on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
We design and operate the systems that enable all engineering at Kraken; bringing together compute, storage, orchestration, and more into a unified, reliable platform. You’ll join a senior group of engineers working closely with SRE, Networking, and Security to deliver a stable, scalable, and secure foundation for all workloads.
We’re looking for someone to help evolve and scale our OpenStack platform as a core part of our next-generation infrastructure.
The opportunity
Own and resolve infrastructure support requests across our existing Nomad platform, helping engineering teams remove blockers and keep workloads running reliably
Help operate and improve our existing infrastructure while contributing to its gradual migration toward the next-generation platform
Gain hands-on experience across OpenStack platform operations: compute (Nova), networking (Neutron), and provisioning (Ironic)
Learn storage systems fundamentals, including Ceph architecture, operations, and troubleshooting
Handle feature requests and support tickets for both OpenStack and Storage systems, learning core concepts along the way
Work with senior engineers to troubleshoot complex issues across the full stack, reducing operational burden from the team
Understand how storage integrates with our infrastructure (whether through OpenStack Cinder or Kubernetes CSI)
Build automation and tooling to improve team efficiency and reduce toil across both platforms
Contribute to documentation and runbooks for operations and troubleshooting
Participate in on-call rotation to maintain platform reliability
What you bring
Proven experience of 3+ year of working as an Infrastructure/Platform/DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer or similar roles
Strong passion for providing technical guidance to stakeholders, with excellent communication skills and a customer-focused approach to resolving compute / storage related requests, removing blockers, and enabling engineering teams to succeed
Hands-on experience building and maintaining at least one of Openstack private cloud or Ceph networked storage platforms
Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
Strong Linux systems knowledge: comfortable at the shell, understanding processes, networking basics, file systems, permissions
Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, ports, IP addressing, basic routing, TLS, PKI concepts
Ability to leverage AI tools and agents such as Claude and OpenAI to efficiently deliver business value
Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)
Nice to haves
Hands-on experience with Nomad, particularly operating or troubleshooting production workloads
Experience with Salt or other configuration-management systems such as Ansible
Prior hands-on experience with OpenStack or other cloud platforms
Experience with Ceph or other distributed storage systems
Exposure to virtualization technologies or hypervisor operations
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
Experience with containerization (Docker) or Kubernetes
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