Senior Infrastructure Engineer — IDC / Bare-Metal Kubernetes
at Binance
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**Senior Infrastructure Engineer — IDC / Bare-Metal Kubernetes** Our leading global blockchain ecosystem, Binance, seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to pioneer our in-house IDC infrastructure. You'll design, build, and manage our colocation data center, with full ownership of our on-prem Kubernetes platform. Core expertise required: physical infrastructure setup, production-grade self-hosted Kubernetes, and hybrid-cloud interconnect. This greenfield role offers high architectural ownership. Key responsibilities include rack layout design, Kubernetes platform maintenance, and hybrid-cloud integration. With Binance's mission to improve financial access worldwide, you'll help advance our freedom of money initiative.
About the Role
We are building our own IDC infrastructure from the ground up. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead the architecture, buildout, and operations of our colocation data center — from rack layout to the on-prem Kubernetes platform. You build it, you own it. This is a true greenfield role with no legacy baggage and a high degree of architectural ownership.
Your core expertise will center on three pillars: building physical infrastructure from zero, running production-grade self-hosted Kubernetes, and hybrid-cloud interconnect. As the platform matures, you'll help drive the next phase of cross-cloud and scale-out buildout.
Responsibilities
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Design rack layout, network topology, and overall configuration for colocation
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Design and implement an isolated Out-of-Band (OOB) management network (BMC, IPMI, Redfish) with full security hardening
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Coordinate with colocation and hardware vendors — servers, switches, cross-connects, uplinks, remote hands, and cage/rack administration
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Build bare-metal automation for fleet-wide zero-touch OS provisioning (MAAS / Tinkerbell / Cluster API)
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Set up production-grade self-hosted Kubernetes clusters from scratch and maintain the core stack: Cilium (CNI), GitOps (ArgoCD), etc.
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Own cluster lifecycle: upgrades, scaling, node maintenance, incident response
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Write SOPs, runbooks, and post-mortems; participate in 24×7 on-call rotation
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Establish hybrid-cloud interconnect between IDC and public cloud (VPN / Direct Connect / peering)
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Pave the way for scale-out: GPU workloads (NVIDIA GPU Operator, passthrough, MIG) and VM workloads running alongside containers (KubeVirt or similar)
Requirements
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5+ years in data center / infrastructure / platform engineering
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Hands-on experience building physical infrastructure from scratch: rack layout, network topology, server commissioning, and coordinating cross-connects and remote hands with colo / vendors
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Practical experience designing and operating OOB management networks (BMC, IPMI, Redfish)
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Have stood up production-grade self-hosted Kubernetes from scratch, and can independently debug cluster-level issues (CNI, CSI, storage)
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Strong Linux systems administration and performance tuning (kernel, networking, storage I/O)
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Bare-metal automation experience with at least one of: MAAS, Tinkerbell, Cluster API
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Proficient with Terraform, Ansible, and at least one scripting language (Python / Go / Bash)
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Experience with Cisco network and related techniques (VLAN, LACP/LAG, BGP, ACL, etc)
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Experience with Palo Alto firewall configuration
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Experience with storage systems (NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage)
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Fluent in English or Mandrain
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High-density racks (30kW+) and 400G+ networking experience
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Familiarity with immutable OS (Talos Linux / Flatcar / Bottlerocket)
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Proficiency across both AWS and GCP; cross-cloud data migration experience
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Experience building storage or Bigdata / offline data clusters
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Virtualization experience (KubeVirt or similars)
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Exposure to NVIDIA GPU Operator and K8s GPU workloads
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CKA / CKS certification
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CCNP / CCIE certification
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Professional-level Japanese
