Experience: 6–8 Years

Employment Type: Full time

Kadel Labs is a deep-tech IT services company established in 2017, specializing in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Operations, Information Security, Software Development, Modernization, and Generative AI solutions. We help organizations build scalable, secure, and reliable technology solutions.

We are looking for a skilled Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of build and release management, hardware certification, and infrastructure engineering for an HCI platform.

The role combines embedded systems development, cloud-native integrations, build and release ownership, and hardware-software validation. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience across compute, storage, networking, and hardware acceleration, ensuring reliable, secure, and enterprise-ready builds.

Maintain, monitor, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for HCI software components.
Collaborate with development teams to resolve build issues and maintain secure coding practices.
Validate HCI platforms across server, storage, and network hardware vendors.
Perform interoperability, firmware compatibility, and compliance testing.
Certify performance and reliability across OEM platforms such as Dell, HPE, and Cisco.
Execute benchmarking, regression, chaos, and resiliency testing for enterprise workloads.
Infrastructure and Platform Engineering

Enhance and maintain the HCI stack across compute, storage, and networking.
Develop and optimize high-performance I/O paths, storage acceleration, and networking offloads.
Integrate custom hardware with Kubernetes using CRDs, CSI/CNI drivers, and Operators.
Perform scalability and performance tuning under production-like workloads.




Use Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi for consistent deployments.
Participate in Proof of Concept (PoC) deployments and customer-facing solution validation.
Documentation and Code Quality

Document build processes, certification procedures, and infrastructure deployments.
Maintain high code quality through unit, integration, and automation test coverage.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, embedded systems, or hardware certification.
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, Go, and Shell scripting.
- Experience with Linux kernel internals, performance tuning, and driver development.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including CSI/CNI driver development, Operators, Helm, and container runtimes.
- Understanding of networking technologies, including VLANs, SDN, SR-IOV, DPDK, and NIC offloads.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with hardware integration, including PCIe devices, BIOS/UEFI, firmware upgrades, BMC, iLO, and iDRAC.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

Experience with secure Kubernetes operations and OPA/Gatekeeper.
Exposure to chaos testing and infrastructure validation automation frameworks.
Experience with multi-cluster management platforms such as Spektra, Rancher, Anthos, or OpenShift.
Contributions to open-source projects involving Kubernetes, the Linux kernel, or storage.
Familiarity with hardware debugging tools and testing frameworks.
Exposure to embedded systems and cloud-native orchestration technologies.
Collaboration with experts in systems programming, Kubernetes, and hardware-software integration.

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