Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer at Aleria LLC, Abu Dhabi. Remote for 2 months trial, then relocation to Abu Dhabi required. Full-time. Salary $5500-6000 remote, $8000-8200 onsite. Bare metal, Kubernetes, observability, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, networking.

About the company: Aleria is an Abu Dhabi company developing AI products for clients in the UAE and worldwide. Small team, fast growth. We work on bare metal, without cloud. We need an engineer who understands every layer — from NIC to Kubernetes pod — and is responsible for keeping everything stable under load and not failing in the middle of the night. Responsibilities: - Ensure reliability and availability of services on bare metal with Kubernetes on hardware - Build and maintain observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki): metrics, dashboards, alerts, SLO/SLI - Respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and eliminate causes rather than symptoms - 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 reducing toil - Security that does not slow down the team - Interact with the development team and client engineers

Requirements: - Deep bare metal experience — without cloud abstractions - Understanding of Kubernetes internals, not just manifests - Experience resolving production incidents under pressure, ability to quickly find root cause - Database tuning under load (priority — PostgreSQL) - 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 approach balanced with delivery speed - High autonomy when working with unfamiliar stack - Vision of infrastructure beyond the current task - English B2+ Nice to have: - Experience with GPU clusters for AI - Ceph/ZFS/distributed storage - Experience with hardening/compliance for government customers - Air-gap CI/CD Not looking for: - YAML engineers who only apply ready-made manifests. We need someone who understands what happens under the hood — and is ready to be the first to get up at night if something fails.

Format: remote (2 months trial), relocation to Abu Dhabi required after 2 months. Full-time. Location: Abu Dhabi. Salary: $5500-6000 remote, $8000-8200 onsite. Company: Aleria LLC.