• Monitor and troubleshoot system performance, reliability, and availability issues using modern observability tools and techniques, with a strong emphasis on diagnosing and resolving issues in operating systems and bare metal environments. • Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure using containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture. • Manage CI/CD pipelines to facilitate efficient software development and deployment processes. • Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux, manage Helm charts and Kustomize configurations for declarative application deployment and version control. • Oversee configuration management to ensure consistent and reliable software releases across environments. Using Ansible for consistent system configuration, patch management, and provisioning across datacenter infrastructure. • Design and operate high-throughput Kafka clusters for event streaming, managing topics, partitions, replication, consumer lag monitoring, and disaster recovery strategies across datacenter infrastructure. • Collaborate with development teams to influence system design choices and operational policies. • Provide expert guidance on managing large data centers, including hundreds of bare metal servers and virtual machines (VMs), ensuring optimal configuration and performance. • Implement name services and server management practices to support our infrastructure needs. • Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance operational efficiency and reliability. • Participate in on-call rotations to provide support for production systems as necessary, conduct blameless post-mortems with root cause analysis, and maintain incident response runbooks and procedures. • Create comprehensive technical documentation, runbooks, architectural diagrams, network topology maps, and maintain knowledge bases for operational procedures and best practices. • Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.