Infrastructure Engineer

Looking for an Infrastructure Engineer for my team.

Format: remote (2 months probation), relocation to Abu Dhabi is mandatory after 2 months Employment: full-time Location: Abu Dhabi Salary range: $5500-6000 remote, $8000-8200 onsite Company: Aleria LLC

Infrastructure Engineer Aleria is an Abu Dhabi-based company developing AI products for clients in the UAE and worldwide. Small team, fast growth. We work on bare metal, no cloud. We need an engineer who understands every layer—from NIC to Kubernetes pod—and is responsible for ensuring it all runs stably under load and doesn't crash in the middle of the night.

What you'll be doing:

• Ensuring reliability and availability of services on bare metal with Kubernetes over hardware
• Building and maintaining observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki): metrics, dashboards, alerts, SLO/SLI
• Responding to incidents, conducting post-mortems, and addressing root causes, not just symptoms
• Tuning PostgreSQL and other databases for production load, identifying bottlenecks
• Maintaining CI/CD (GHES, ArgoCD), reducing deployment time and risk
• Network infrastructure: routing, segmentation, load balancing, security
• On-premise and air-gapped deployments (~10%)
• Capacity planning and work to reduce toil
• Security that doesn't slow down the team
• Interacting with the development team and client engineers

Requirements:

• Deep bare metal experience—no cloud abstractions
• Understanding of Kubernetes internals, not just manifests
• Experience resolving production incidents under pressure, ability to quickly find root causes
• 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-minded approach with a balance on delivery speed
• High autonomy when working with unfamiliar stacks
• Infrastructure vision beyond the current task
• English B2+

Bonus points:

• Experience with GPU clusters for AI
• Ceph/ZFS/distributed storage
• Experience with hardening/compliance for government clients
• Air-gap CI/CD

We are NOT looking for: YAML engineers who only apply pre-made manifests. We need someone who understands what's happening under the hood—and is ready to be the first one up at night if something crashes.