Senior AI Infrastructure & Platform Operations Engineer (Remote EU)

About the role

Mirantis, a Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, is building a European AI Infrastructure & Platform Operations team that runs large-scale AI environments powered by NVIDIA GPUs, high-performance networking, Kubernetes and next-generation platform technologies. As a Senior AI Infrastructure & Platform Operations Engineer, you will act as a technical leader in the operations organization, covering infrastructure, networking, platform operations and service reliability, and serve as a key escalation point for critical incidents.

Key responsibilities

• Lead investigation and resolution of complex infrastructure, networking and platform incidents, and act as a senior escalation point during critical events
• Support large-scale NVIDIA GPU infrastructure and high-performance networking environments, and troubleshoot Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage and hardware issues
• Analyze platform performance, capacity, stability and reliability trends, and lead root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Collaborate with engineering teams, hardware vendors and datacenter personnel on major incident management and service restoration
• Provide technical leadership for Kubernetes platform operations and drive improvements in reliability, observability, monitoring and operational processes
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and contribute to operational readiness reviews, upgrades and service introductions
• Evaluate emerging technologies and help adopt AI-powered operational capabilities through k0rdent AI
• Mentor other operations engineers, share knowledge through documentation and training, and develop operational standards, runbooks and escalation paths

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure operations, platform operations, site reliability engineering, network operations, cloud operations, datacenter operations or related roles
• Proven experience leading technical investigations, managing complex incidents and performing root cause analysis
• Experience supporting large-scale production infrastructure and distributed systems

Required skills

• Expert Linux administration and troubleshooting
• Strong networking expertise and strong Kubernetes production experience
• Observability, monitoring and service reliability practices
• Desirable: NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, InfiniBand, k0rdent AI, HPC, Kubernetes operations, IaC, Grafana/Prometheus/ELK/OpenTelemetry, and technical leadership experience

What we offer

• Work on advanced AI infrastructure environments with NVIDIA GPU technologies and Kubernetes
• Help define operational standards and reliability practices for AI infrastructure services
• Influence the adoption of AI-powered operational capabilities through k0rdent AI