# Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, Kubernetes at Firmus Technologies

> United States · Senior · DevOps / SRE / Infra · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Afirmus%3A5417619008 (read 2026-11-14).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Firmus Technologies](https://alderhq.app/companies/firmus-technologies)
- Location text: San Francisco, California, United States; California, USA
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: San Francisco, California, United States; California, USA")
- Posted: 2026-09-09 (67 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-08
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/firmus/jobs/5417619008
- Skills listed (inferred): Node.js, Kubernetes, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 132): p25 $185k, median $208k, p75 $228k

## Description (the employer's text)

### Firmus Technologies

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific.

Founded in Australia in 2019, our mission is to create the most efficient AI infrastructure by combining cutting-edge technology with a steadfast commitment to sustainability.

At Firmus, we are unique in our approach. We design, build, and operate a new class of digital infrastructure – the AI Factory. Through our model-to-grid technology approach, we have pushed the boundaries of multi-generational liquid cooling systems, energy management, AI software orchestration, and construction. For our customers, this approach allows us to make every watt count and deliver low-cost AI tokens globally.

### Firmus AI Cloud

Our large-scale GPU cloud platform, Firmus AI Cloud, is purpose-built to deliver energy-efficient AI compute at scale to customers.

It empowers developers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government users to train and deploy AI models with unmatched efficiency and cost savings. With an ever-growing suite of services and applications, we are committed to delivering a cloud experience that is market-leading, proprietary, and built to scale.

### Role Summary

The Senior Kubernetes Engineer, AI Infrastructure owns the technical design and delivery of the backend infrastructure that powers the Firmus Kubernetes platform. This is a hands-on principal-level individual contributor role, responsible for building production-grade cluster lifecycle, control-plane, networking, storage, security, observability, and automation capabilities across GPU-accelerated bare-metal environments.

They solve the hardest platform engineering problems, set Kubernetes engineering standards, and provide domain-level technical sign-off for platform designs. They work across AI Platforms, Solutions Architecture & Delivery, networking, security, and operations to create a secure, resilient, multi-tenant platform that can be deployed and operated consistently at AI-factory scale.

### Key Responsibilities

- Define and own the Kubernetes platform reference architecture across management and workload clusters, including control-plane topology, cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, workload isolation, and failure-domain design.
- Build and maintain the backend services, APIs, controllers, operators, and automation required to provision, configure, upgrade, scale, and retire Kubernetes clusters reliably.
- Engineer repeatable bare-metal Kubernetes deployment and lifecycle workflows using infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning technologies such as Cluster API, kubeadm, Redfish, PXE, Ironic, or Metal3.
- Design and operate cluster networking across CNI, ingress, service discovery, DNS, load balancing, network policy, and service mesh; integrate Multus, SR-IOV, BGP, InfiniBand, or RoCE where required for high-performance AI workloads.
- Define persistent-storage and data-service patterns using CSI, Ceph, local NVMe, object storage, backup and restore, and disaster-recovery mechanisms appropriate for stateful platform and AI workloads.
- Integrate and productionise NVIDIA GPU and Network Operators, device plugins, drivers, DCGM telemetry, scheduling, quotas, and topology-aware placement for multi-node accelerated workloads.
- Establish GitOps and CI/CD patterns for platform software, configuration, policy, and release management, with safe testing, progressive rollout, rollback, and upgrade practices.
- Build platform security into the architecture through identity and access control, RBAC, secrets management, policy-as-code, image and software-supply-chain controls, tenant isolation, and auditable change management.
- Define service-level objectives and engineer observability for metrics, logs, traces, events, capacity, and performance; lead diagnosis of complex distributed systems failures and eliminate recurring operational toil.
- Set engineering standards, design patterns, review practices, and operational readiness criteria; mentor senior engineers and resolve cross-team technical decisions while remaining directly involved in implementation.

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