Site Reliability Engineer
Astera Institute is an active nonprofit research institute and foundation that operates in-house neuroscience-informed AI research and funds, operates, and supports open-science programs and public goods.
About Astera Institute
Astera operates three divisions: Neuro-AI, Radial life-sciences research, and its Foundation. Its AI work pursues neuroscience-informed approaches to artificial general intelligence, while its foundation and Radial activities support open scientific infrastructure, datasets, research programs, and residencies.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will operate the infrastructure supporting research compute, container registries, and dashboards. You will improve compute access and resource visibility, enable autoscaling, manage access controls, create reproducible deployments, and automate operational processes.
Requirements
- Take accountability for cluster health and capacity
- Understand interactions among schedulers, containers, networking, storage, and hardware
- Design systems with predictable failure modes
- Apply observability, reproducibility, and clear operational boundaries
- Support experimental research workloads pragmatically
Responsibilities
- Ensure efficient access to compute resources
- Provide visibility into resource utilization and cluster health
- Enable automatic scaling of compute resources
- Manage access to infrastructure resources
- Drive deterministic deployments and reproducible research environments
- Automate operational processes
- Operate infrastructure using Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Tailscale, Python, Grafana, Prometheus, and Talos Linux