VulcanForms Inc. · 4 hours ago
Senior Platform Engineer
Ayer, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$137K/yr - $187K/yr
5+ years expVulcanForms Inc. is a company focused on reshaping manufacturing through advanced digital infrastructure and scalable laser metal additive manufacturing solutions. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and operating the digital foundation that powers manufacturing operations, deploying and maintaining orchestration platforms to support mission-critical applications.
MiningIndustrialSustainabilityManufacturingInfrastructurePrecious Metals
Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and manage production-grade container orchestration clusters using Kubernetes and HashiCorp Nomad
Act as the design authority for cloud-native infrastructure, ensuring high availability for 24/7 manufacturing environments
Build out Infrastructure as Code (IaC) resources to automate environment provisioning, deployment, and service management
Implement comprehensive logging, tracing, and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana) to ensure deep visibility into system health and performance
Partner with Software and Data teams to architect secure, low-latency integrations between edge manufacturing hardware and cloud-based control planes
Lead the implementation of secure service-to-service communication, secret management (Vault), and centralized identity (OIDC/SSO)
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in Platform, SRE, or DevOps Engineering with a focus on distributed systems in Linux environments
Proven experience managing Kubernetes and/or Nomad clusters at scale with Helm and/or Nomad Pack-based deployments
Strong proficiency in Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible to manage infrastructure
Proficiency in Python or Go for building custom operators, service integrations, or platform automation
Cloud-Native Networking: Solid understanding of service networking (e.g. Consul, Cilium), load balancing, and securing edge-to-cloud traffic
CI/CD Leadership: Experience managing diverse deployment pipelines and software development lifecycle services
Preferred
Experience running containerized workloads on 'bare metal' or edge devices in an industrial/factory setting
Experience managing persistent storage for stateful workloads (e.g., S3, Ceph/Rook)
Knowledge of MQTT, OPC-UA, or other industrial protocols and how they interface with modern cloud platforms
Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures as well as cloud/service migrations
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life insurance
Generous paid time off
401(k) plan with company match
Company
VulcanForms Inc.
VulcanForms builds and operates advanced digital manufacturing infrastructure that enables the world's critical industries to innovate, grow, and deliver sustainable impact.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$575MKey Investors
1789 Capital,Eclipse VenturesD1 Capital PartnersEclipse Ventures
2026-01-30Series D· $220M
2022-07-05Series C· $250M
2020-05-15Series B· $77M
Leadership Team
Kevin Kassekert
Chief Executive Officer
A. John Hart
Co-Founder
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