Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Vulcan (AI Security product)

The role

You will own the deployment, migration, and troubleshooting of on-premise Kubernetes environments for enterprise and government clients. This includes working in airgapped, high-security data center environments.

What you will do

• Plan and execute on-prem Kubernetes cluster deployments, upgrades and infrastructure migrations
• Diagnose and resolve failures independently on-site
• Own the full infrastructure stack end-to-end
• Validate deployment tooling in lab/staging environments
• Represent technical work directly to client stakeholders on-site
• Travel to client data centers for deployment and go-live support
• Write clear, structured runbooks, decision trees and incident reports
• Escalate risks proactively to internal leadership

Required qualifications

• 5-6 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, including at least one on-premise deployment
• Solid understanding of etcd internals
• Experience with kubeadm-based cluster bootstrapping and certificate management
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL replication, Linux networking fundamentals and container registries
• Comfortable working entirely from the Linux command line, writing and debugging bash scripts
• Ability to work independently in high-pressure, high-stakes environments without live support
• Strong incident communication
• Track record of validating changes in test environments before touching production
• Comfortable with travel, including to secure/restricted facilities

Nice to have

• Experience with at least one distributed storage system (SeaweedFS, Ceph, MinIO or similar)
• GPU-enabled Kubernetes nodes (NVIDIA device plugin, container toolkit) experience
• Prior consulting, systems integration or professional services experience
• Experience specifically in the GCC/Middle East region, or with government-sector clients
• Security background

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package

About the company

aift is a company providing security in GenAI through its Vulcan cybersecurity solution. Vulcan provides red and blue team services to ensure compliance and security.