Site Reliability Engineer

About this role

Astera's Neuro-AI program seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to manage and optimize the digital infrastructure supporting cutting-edge AI research. You'll own compute resource access, monitoring, auto-scaling, and automation across a modern cloud-native stack, ensuring researchers have reliable, efficient access to the tools they need.

What you'll do

• Manage compute resource allocation and access control across third-party cloud platforms
• Monitor cluster health and resource utilization with observability tools
• Design and implement auto-scaling solutions based on research demand patterns
• Automate operational processes to increase infrastructure efficiency
• Ensure reproducible and deterministic deployment environments for research
• Maintain clear operational documentation and boundaries for handoff to other engineers

What they're looking for

• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Infrastructure automation (Ansible or similar)
• Observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Linux systems administration
• Python scripting
• Cloud networking and distributed systems knowledge
• Docker and containerization
• Access control and security management