SRE Lead

About Aleroy

Aleroy is building a unified platform for high-performance AI inference, making it easier for companies to deploy and run AI models at scale.
Through a single API, Aleroy provides access to ready-to-use and custom AI models across cloud infrastructure, dedicated capacity, and customers' own hardware. Our platform optimizes performance, cost, and deployment flexibility while giving enterprises control over where and how their AI workloads run.
We work in small teams, collaborate directly, and focus on solving complex engineering challenges to build reliable, scalable AI infrastructure.

About the Role

As our systems grow in complexity and scale, reliability becomes an engineering discipline of its own. We are looking for an SRE Lead who can take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure reliability, observability, automation, and production engineering across Aleroy.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will own the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of our production environment while defining the SRE standards used across engineering.
You will work closely with Backend, Platform, Product, Security, and Engineering leadership to ensure our systems remain reliable as the business scales.
We are looking for someone who can move comfortably between architecture, hands-on engineering, incident response, automation, and technical leadership.

What You Will Own

Infrastructure & Reliability

• Own the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of Aleroy production infrastructure.

• Design and evolve resilient infrastructure supporting growing and distributed workloads.

• Identify infrastructure bottlenecks, single points of failure, and operational risks.

• Establish capacity planning, backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery practices.

• Drive improvements in infrastructure performance, stability, and cost efficiency.

Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure

• Own the architecture, operation, and optimization of Kubernetes environments.

• Improve cluster reliability, networking, resource utilization, deployment strategies, and workload management.

• Build and maintain infrastructure through Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or equivalent IaC tooling.

• Ensure infrastructure is automated, reproducible, version-controlled, and scalable.

• Work deeply with Linux, Docker/containerd, networking, storage, and cloud-native infrastructure.

CI/CD Automation

• Design and improve production-grade CI/CD pipelines.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, configuration, testing, and operational workflows.

• Improve deployment safety through automated validation, rollback mechanisms, and appropriate release controls.

• Reduce manual operational work through automation.

Observability

• Own the observability strategy across Aleroy.

• Build monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting infrastructure.

• Work with Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ELK/EFK, or equivalent technologies.

• Establish visibility into infrastructure health, application health, performance, and failures.

• Improve alert quality and reduce unnecessary operational noise.

SRE Standarts

• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.

• Establish reliability standards for critical services.

• Partner with engineering teams to make reliability part of the development lifecycle.

• Use operational data to identify recurring problems and prioritize improvements.

Incident Management

• Lead technical response to critical production incidents.

• Establish incident management and escalation processes.

• Lead RCA and blameless post-mortems.

• Translate incidents into concrete engineering improvements.

• Participate in and help structure the on-call rotation.

Security & Operational Readiness

• Embed infrastructure and cloud security best practices.

• Strengthen access management, secrets management, network security, CI/CD security, and runtime security.

• Support security, compliance, and audit-readiness requirements where relevant.

Technical Leadership

• Set the technical direction for SRE and infrastructure engineering.

• Establish engineering standards and best practices.

• Review infrastructure architecture and major technical changes.

• Mentor engineers and increase infrastructure expertise across teams.

• Remain hands-on with implementation and troubleshooting.

   

About You

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or similar roles.

• Strong experience owning production infrastructure at scale.

• Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes.

• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

• Experience designing and operating production-grade CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, DNS, load balancing, storage, containers, and distributed systems.

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ELK/EFK, or similar observability stacks.

• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.

• Practical experience with SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, alerting, and error budgets.

• Experience leading production incidents, RCA, and post-mortems.

• Strong understanding of cloud-native and infrastructure security.

• Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical standards.

• Strong ownership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting AI/ML or HPC workloads.

• Experience with GPU infrastructure, scheduling, resource management, or performance optimization.

• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems.

• Multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or self-managed infrastructure experience.

• Experience optimizing infrastructure costs and capacity.

• Experience with service mesh, distributed tracing, or advanced Kubernetes networking.

• Previous experience as an SRE Lead, Platform Lead, Infrastructure Lead, or Tech Lead.

What We Offer

• Real ownership of the backend that powers Aleroy inference platform.

• Influence over backend architecture and product direction.

• Hands-on work on hard problems in distributed systems, real-time streaming, and LLM serving.

• A small, senior team with fast execution and low bureaucracy.

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives.

• 24 days annual leave plus public holidays.

• Health insurance.

• Modern office in Yas Creative Hub.