About the role
About Mirantis Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy. Overview Deploy, integrate, and operate high-performance storage for GPU-accelerated compute and AI platforms. You will own the storage layer where Kubernetes meets bare metal — standing up NFS-based high-performance storage, wiring it into clusters via CSI, and tuning it to keep data flowing to GPU workloads at scale. Work spans hybrid, edge, and air-gapped deployments built on the Mirantis K0rdent stack.
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the Role We are looking for a senior DevOps engineer who treats storage as infrastructure to be automated, observed, and tuned — not hand-managed. The right candidate is fluent in Kubernetes storage, comfortable on bare metal down to the disk, kernel, and NFS-client layer, and knows how to make high-performance NAS actually perform under demanding workloads. You should reach for infrastructure-as-code and GitOps by default, be self-directed in diagnosing performance and reliability issues end to end, set operational standards for others to follow, and communicate clearly across teams.
Responsibilities 1. Storage Integration & Operation Integrate NFS-based high-performance storage (e.g., VAST, Dell PowerScale) into Kubernetes clusters via CSI, storage classes, and persistent volumes. Tune the NFS data path — mount options, nconnect/RDMA, client and network settings — for high-throughput, low-latency GPU/AI workloads. Deploy and operate storage services and operators; manage capacity, quotas, snapshots, and lifecycle. 2. Bare Metal & Platform Provision and configure storage on bare-metal hosts, including disk layout, drivers, and kernel/network tuning. Deliver storage integration for k0s-based Kubernetes via Cluster API (CAPI) and K0rdent management/child cluster topologies. Operate storage in fully disconnected (air-gapped) environments, including local artifact/mirror connectivity (Harbor) and PKI/TLS considerations. 3. Automation & Observability Automate storage provisioning and configuration with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and GitOps pipelines (ArgoCD or Flux). Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for storage performance, capacity, and health. Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues across the storage stack. 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations, with strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes storage (CSI, persistent volumes, storage classes) in production. Experience integrating and operating NFS-based high-performance / NAS storage, including data-path tuning. Bare-metal operations experience: host provisioning, disk/storage configuration, and Linux storage and networking fundamentals. Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and GitOps-driven configuration. Scripting/automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python, or Go). Strong written and verbal communication with technical audiences. Preferred Hands-on experience with VAST and/or Dell PowerScale. Experience with GPUDirect Storage and RDMA/RoCE data paths. Experience with the Mirantis K0rdent stack (K0rdent Enterprise, K0rdent AI, k0s, MKE) and Cluster API. Familiarity with other storage backends (Ceph, object/S3) and CSI driver operations. Proven experience in sovereign or high-security air-gapped environments. What does Mirantis offer you? - Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry; - Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies; - Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation; - Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued; - Professional development and training; - Attend conferences and working groups; - Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks; - Receive a competitive
