• Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Go • Develop and enhance core services behind VKE, VLB (HAProxy), VCR (Container Registry), and Inference • Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals (scheduler, kubelet, controllers, CRDs) • Design, implement, and improve container runtime integrations (containerd, runc, OCI) • Architect CI/CD improvements and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems • Troubleshoot complex issues across networking, load balancing, containers, and distributed systems • Contribute directly to Vultr’s open-source ecosystem (terraform provider, crossplane, vultr-cli, govultr) • Improve overall reliability, observability, and operability of cloud-native services • Collaborate with product, platform, and infrastructure teams on feature delivery