About the Company
Aleria is a company based in Abu Dhabi, developing AI products for clients in the UAE and around the world. We have a small team and are experiencing rapid growth. We work on bare metal, without cloud solutions.
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 eliminate root causes.
- Tune PostgreSQL and other databases for production load, identify bottlenecks.
- Support CI/CD (GHES, ArgoCD), reducing deployment time and risk.
- Network infrastructure: routing, segmentation, load balancing, security.
- On-premise and air-gapped deliveries (~10%).
- Capacity planning and reducing toil.
- Ensure security does not hinder team performance.
- Collaborate with development teams and client engineers.
Requirements
- Deep experience with bare metal — no cloud abstractions.
- Understanding of Kubernetes internals, not just manifests.
- Experience resolving production incidents under pressure, with a quick root cause analysis.
- Database tuning under load (PostgreSQL prioritized).
- 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 tech stacks.
- Vision of infrastructure beyond current tasks.
- English proficiency B2+
Benefits & Perks
- Relocation to Abu Dhabi after 2 months of remote work.
- Salary: $6,000 remote, $8,000 onsite.
