Infrastructure Engineer - Core Infrastructure

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Kraken, you join the Core Infrastructure – Platforms team responsible for the foundational platform that powers all Kraken on-premises and cloud infrastructure. You'll work with a senior group of engineers closely with SRE, Networking, and Security to design and operate systems that enable all engineering at Kraken, bringing together compute, storage, orchestration, and more into a unified, reliable platform. You'll help evolve and scale the OpenStack platform as a core part of Kraken's next-generation infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Gain hands-on experience across OpenStack platform operations: compute (Nova), networking (Neutron), and provisioning (Ironic)
• Learn storage systems fundamentals, including Ceph architecture, operations, and troubleshooting
• Handle feature requests and support tickets for both OpenStack and Storage systems
• Work with senior engineers to troubleshoot complex issues across the full stack, reducing operational burden from the team
• Understand how storage integrates with infrastructure through OpenStack Cinder or Kubernetes CSI
• Build automation and tooling to improve team efficiency and reduce toil across both platforms
• Contribute to documentation and runbooks for operations and troubleshooting
• Participate in on-call rotation to maintain platform reliability

What you bring

• 3+ years of experience working as an Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps, or Software Engineer
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining at least one of OpenStack private cloud or Ceph networked storage platforms
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
• Strong Linux systems knowledge: comfortable at the shell, understanding processes, networking basics, file systems, permissions
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, ports, IP addressing, basic routing, TLS, PKI concepts
• Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)
• Proven ability to provide technical guidance to stakeholders with excellent communication skills and a customer-focused approach to resolving compute and storage related requests
• Ability to leverage AI tools and agents such as Claude and OpenAI to efficiently deliver business value

Nice to have

• Working experience running Kubernetes clusters
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) or on-premises infrastructure
• Knowledge of Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
• Experience with storage systems such as Ceph or Rook

About Kraken

Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services for both individual investors and institutions. Kraken is part of Payward, which has spent the last 15 years building modern, globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms.