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ABOUT THE COMPANYDizzaract is a product-driven company operating at the intersection of gaming, digital platforms, and AI. We build and scale multiple products, including FAR Labs & Gamed - each exploring a different space, yet united by a shared approach: moving fast, staying curious, and focusing on things that people actually use.\nWe operate as a collaborative, non-hierarchical team where ideas are valued based on their impact, not their origin, and where AI is embedded across everything we build, from infrastructure to product decisions.\n02. ABOUT THE ROLE\nFAR Labs is building a distributed inference platform designed to serve large language models efficiently across diverse hardware. Serving quality - latency, throughput, memory efficiency, cost, and model quality - sits at the core of the product.\nAs 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 FAR Labs.\nThis 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.\nYou will work closely with Backend, Platform, Product, Security, and Engineering leadership to ensure our systems remain reliable as the business scales.\nWe are looking for someone who can move comfortably between architecture, hands-on engineering, incident response, automation, and technical leadership.\n03. WHAT YOU'LL OWN\nInfrastructure & Reliability\nOwn the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of FAR Labs production infrastructure.\nDesign and evolve resilient infrastructure supporting growing and distributed workloads.\nIdentify infrastructure bottlenecks, single points of failure, and operational risks.\nEstablish capacity planning, backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery practices.\nDrive improvements in infrastructure performance, stability, and cost efficiency.\nKubernetes & Cloud InfrastructureOwn the architecture, operation, and optimization of Kubernetes environments.\nImprove cluster reliability, networking, resource utilization, deployment strategies, and workload management.\nBuild and maintain infrastructure through Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or equivalent IaC tooling.\nEnsure infrastructure is automated, reproducible, version-controlled, and scalable.\nWork deeply with Linux, Docker/containerd, networking, storage, and cloud-native infrastructure.\nCI/CD AutomationDesign and improve production-grade CI/CD pipelines.\nAutomate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, configuration, testing, and operational workflows.\nImprove deployment safety through automated validation, rollback mechanisms, and appropriate release controls.\nReduce manual operational work through automation.\nObservabilityOwn the observability strategy across FAR Labs.\nBuild monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting infrastructure.\nWork with Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ELK/EFK, or equivalent technologies.\nEstablish visibility into infrastructure health, application health, performance, and failures.\nImprove alert quality and reduce unnecessary operational noise.\nSRE StandartsDefine and implement SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.\nEstablish reliability standards for critical services.\nPartner with engineering teams to make reliability part of the development lifecycle.\nUse operational data to identify recurring problems and prioritize improvements.\nIncident ManagementLead technical response to critical production incidents.\nEstablish incident management and escalation processes.\nLead RCA and blameless post-mortems.\nTranslate incidents into concrete engineering improvements.\nParticipate in and help structure the on-call rotation.\nSecurity & Operational ReadinessEmbed infrastructure and cloud security best practices.\nStrengthen access management, secrets management, network security, CI/CD security, and runtime security.\nSupport security, compliance, and audit-readiness requirements where relevant.\nTechnical LeadershipSet the technical direction for SRE and infrastructure engineering.\nEstablish engineering standards and best practices.\nReview infrastructure architecture and major technical changes.\nMentor engineers and increase infrastructure expertise across teams.\nRemain hands-on with implementation and troubleshooting.\n04. REQUIREMENTS\n7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or similar roles.\nStrong experience owning production infrastructure at scale.\nDeep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes.\nStrong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.\nExperience designing and operating production-grade CI/CD pipelines.\nStrong knowledge of Linux, networking, DNS, load balancing, storage, containers, and distributed systems.\nExperience with Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ELK/EFK, or similar observability stacks.\nStrong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.\nPractical experience with SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, alerting, and error budgets.\nExperience leading production incidents, RCA, and post-mortems.\nStrong understanding of cloud-native and infrastructure security.\nExperience making architectural decisions and driving technical standards.\nStrong ownership, communication, and problem-solving skills.\n05. NICE TO HAVE\nExperience supporting AI/ML or HPC workloads.\nExperience with GPU infrastructure, scheduling, resource management, or performance optimization.\nExperience operating large-scale distributed systems.\nMulti-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or self-managed infrastructure experience.\nExperience optimizing infrastructure costs and capacity.\nExperience with service mesh, distributed tracing, or advanced Kubernetes networking.\nPrevious experience as an SRE Lead, Platform Lead, Infrastructure Lead, or Tech Lead.\n06. WHAT WE OFFER\nReal technical ownership of site reliability, infrastructure, and production operations across FAR Labs.\nThe opportunity to define the SRE strategy, standards, and technical direction as our platform scales.\nHands-on work with technically challenging problems across Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, observability, and automation.\nThe opportunity to build and evolve high-availability, scalable production infrastructure rather than simply maintain existing systems.\nDirect influence over architecture, SLOs, incident management, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure performance.\nA small, senior engineering environment where you can set technical standards, mentor engineers, and see your decisions translate directly into platform and product outcomes.\nFast execution, low bureaucracy, and a highly collaborative, idea-driven team.\nCompetitive salary with performance-based incentives.\n24 days annual leave, plus public holidays.\nHealth insurance.\nModern office in Yas Creative Hub.\nContinuous learning through real-world problem solving - not just theory.\nThe opportunity to influence both technical architecture and product direction.\nA diverse, open-minded team where ideas are genuinely heard.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7218,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Continuous learning","Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T05:41:15Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T06:34:16Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/farcana-sre-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/farcana-sre-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T17:45:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":22753,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4430105},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4430105"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ffarcana-sre-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ffarcana-sre-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ffarcana-sre-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/farcana-sre-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ffarcana-sre-lead"}]}