Infrastructure Engineer

Aleria LLC seeks an Infrastructure Engineer in Abu Dhabi. Remote for 2 months trial, then relocation required. Full-time. Salary: $5,500–6,000 remote, $8,000–8,200 onsite. Bare metal Kubernetes, observability, CI/CD, PostgreSQL tuning.

Aleria LLC is an Abu Dhabi company building AI products for clients in the UAE and worldwide. Small team, fast growth. Work on bare metal, no cloud. Responsibilities: - Ensure reliability and availability of services on bare metal with Kubernetes. - Build and maintain observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki): metrics, dashboards, alerts, SLO/SLI. - Respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and fix root causes. - Tune PostgreSQL and other databases for production load, find bottlenecks. - Maintain CI/CD (GHES, ArgoCD), reduce deployment time and risk. - Network infrastructure: routing, segmentation, load balancing, security. - On-premise and air-gapped deliveries (~10%). - Capacity planning and toil reduction. - Security that doesn't slow the team down. - Collaborate with development team and client engineers.

Deep bare metal experience — without cloud abstractions. Understanding of Kubernetes internals, not just manifests. Experience resolving production incidents under pressure, quickly finding root cause. Database tuning under load (PostgreSQL priority). Experience building observability and alerting systems from scratch. Experience with on-prem and air-gapped deployments. Networking: L2/L3, routing, firewall, VPN. Production Linux troubleshooting. Security mindset balanced with delivery speed. High autonomy when working with unfamiliar stack. Vision of infrastructure beyond current task. English B2+. Nice to have: - Experience with GPU clusters for AI. - Ceph/ZFS/distributed storage. - Hardening/compliance experience for government customers. - Air-gap CI/CD. Not looking for: YAML engineers who only apply ready-made manifests. Need someone who understands what happens under the hood and is ready to be first up at night if something breaks.

Format: remote (2 months trial), mandatory relocation to Abu Dhabi after 2 months. Employment: full-time. Location: Abu Dhabi. Salary: $5,500–6,000 remote, $8,000–8,200 onsite.