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Aldea is a next- AI company focused on voice-based clinical and expert applications. Our flagship product, Advisor, uses proprietary AI to scale the impact of world-class minds across personal development, finance, parenting, relationships, and more. We’re on a mission to bring the best expert guidance in the world to people navigating real-life challenges — whether that’s parenting, relationships, health, or personal growth. Our consumer products are voice-first, AI-, and designed to meet people where they are.
As a multidisciplinary team of builders, researchers, and product thinkers, we value clear thinking, sharp writing, and strong user-first intuition.
This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage startup that will help define a new category.
Why This Role Matters
We're building AI infrastructure that scales. With 5 distinct environments managing complex multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments, we need infrastructure experts who can architect systems for production readiness while maintaining security and operational excellence. This isn't just maintaining servers—you'll be designing the backbone that powers our AI platform across development, staging, and production environments.
What You'll Own
Multi-Environment Kubernetes Architecture
Manage 5 distinct environments (NMS, Sandbox, Development, Staging, Production) with different security and access requirements
Design redundancy and failover mechanisms for our centralized NMS hub that manages all environments
Infrastructure as Code Excellence
Develop and maintain Pulumi-based infrastructure using Python
Manage complex cross-environment dependencies and VPC peering relationships
Automate resource provisioning and configuration management
Zero-Trust Security Implementation
Implement and maintain certificate-based VPN access with internal DNS resolution
Configure WAF, security groups, and network policies for VPN-only access
Manage HashiCorp Vault integration for secure credential management across environments
Comprehensive Observability
Deploy and configure Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, and CloudWatch
Implement unified monitoring across distributed infrastructure
Design alerting and incident response procedures
API Platform Management
Deploy and maintain the centralized API that manages all environments from the NMS hub
Implement automation for managing training jobs and inference across multiple Kubernetes clusters
Optimize GPU and CPU resource utilization across node groups
Must-Have Requirements
Experience & Technical Depth
5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
Expert-level Kubernetes experience with EKS and multi-cluster management
Strong Python programming skills for infrastructure automation and API development
Infrastructure & Cloud Expertise
Infrastructure as Code expertise with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools
Deep AWS knowledge: VPC, EKS, ECR, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and networking
Linux system administration and containerization with Docker
Monitoring & Security
Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging systems
Network security experience including VPN, firewalls, and certificate management
Understanding of zero-trust architecture principles
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
Machine Learning infrastructure experience (GPU clusters, model serving, ML pipelines)
HashiCorp Vault administration and integration
GitOps experience with ArgoCD or similar tools
Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd)
Database administration (PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch)
CI/CD pipeline design and multi-cloud infrastructure experience
90-Day Success Metrics
Infrastructure Stability
Zero unplanned downtime across production environments
Successfully implement disaster recovery procedures with tested failover mechanisms
Achieve 99.9% uptime SLA across all critical services
Security & Compliance
Complete VPN-only access implementation with certificate-based authentication
Successfully integrate HashiCorp Vault across all environments
Pass security audit with comprehensive logging and monitoring in place
Operational Excellence
Reduce infrastructure provisioning time by 50% through automation
Implement comprehensive monitoring with
Optimize GPU utilization rates above 80% across training workloads
Key Challenges You'll Solve
Architectural Complexity
The NMS hub is a single point of failure—you'll architect redundancy without compromising centralized management
Balance VPN-only security requirements with operational efficiency for remote team access
Manage complex service discovery across 5 interconnected environments
Scale & Performance
Optimize GPU resources across competing training and inference workloads
Implement cost optimization strategies while maintaining performance requirements
Design monitoring systems that scale with our infrastructure growth
Benefits
Compensation & Benefits We are a well-funded, Seed-stage company preparing for launch. We offer:
Competitive base salary
Performance-based bonus based on achieving goals
Equity participation
Comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision, and paid time off
Flexible work environment—based in Miami, hybrid OK. Remote considered.
Aldea is a next- AI company focused on voice-based clinical and expert applications. Our flagship product, Advisor, uses proprietary AI to scale the impact of world-class minds across personal development, finance, parenting, relationships, and more. We’re on a mission to bring the best expert guidance in the world to people navigating real-life challenges — whether that’s parenting, relationships, health, or personal growth. Our consumer products are voice-first, AI-, and designed to meet people where they are.
As a multidisciplinary team of builders, researchers, and product thinkers, we value clear thinking, sharp writing, and strong user-first intuition.
This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage startup that will help define a new category.
Why This Role Matters
We're building AI infrastructure that scales. With 5 distinct environments managing complex multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments, we need infrastructure experts who can architect systems for production readiness while maintaining security and operational excellence. This isn't just maintaining servers—you'll be designing the backbone that powers our AI platform across development, staging, and production environments.
What You'll Own
Multi-Environment Kubernetes Architecture
Manage 5 distinct environments (NMS, Sandbox, Development, Staging, Production) with different security and access requirements
Design redundancy and failover mechanisms for our centralized NMS hub that manages all environments
Infrastructure as Code Excellence
Develop and maintain Pulumi-based infrastructure using Python
Manage complex cross-environment dependencies and VPC peering relationships
Automate resource provisioning and configuration management
Zero-Trust Security Implementation
Implement and maintain certificate-based VPN access with internal DNS resolution
Configure WAF, security groups, and network policies for VPN-only access
Manage HashiCorp Vault integration for secure credential management across environments
Comprehensive Observability
Deploy and configure Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, and CloudWatch
Implement unified monitoring across distributed infrastructure
Design alerting and incident response procedures
API Platform Management
Deploy and maintain the centralized API that manages all environments from the NMS hub
Implement automation for managing training jobs and inference across multiple Kubernetes clusters
Optimize GPU and CPU resource utilization across node groups
Must-Have Requirements
Experience & Technical Depth
5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
Expert-level Kubernetes experience with EKS and multi-cluster management
Strong Python programming skills for infrastructure automation and API development
Infrastructure & Cloud Expertise
Infrastructure as Code expertise with Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tools
Deep AWS knowledge: VPC, EKS, ECR, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and networking
Linux system administration and containerization with Docker
Monitoring & Security
Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging systems
Network security experience including VPN, firewalls, and certificate management
Understanding of zero-trust architecture principles
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
Machine Learning infrastructure experience (GPU clusters, model serving, ML pipelines)
HashiCorp Vault administration and integration
GitOps experience with ArgoCD or similar tools
Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd)
Database administration (PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch)
CI/CD pipeline design and multi-cloud infrastructure experience
90-Day Success Metrics
Infrastructure Stability
Zero unplanned downtime across production environments
Successfully implement disaster recovery procedures with tested failover mechanisms
Achieve 99.9% uptime SLA across all critical services
Security & Compliance
Complete VPN-only access implementation with certificate-based authentication
Successfully integrate HashiCorp Vault across all environments
Pass security audit with comprehensive logging and monitoring in place
Operational Excellence
Reduce infrastructure provisioning time by 50% through automation
Implement comprehensive monitoring with
Optimize GPU utilization rates above 80% across training workloads
Key Challenges You'll Solve
Architectural Complexity
The NMS hub is a single point of failure—you'll architect redundancy without compromising centralized management
Balance VPN-only security requirements with operational efficiency for remote team access
Manage complex service discovery across 5 interconnected environments
Scale & Performance
Optimize GPU resources across competing training and inference workloads
Implement cost optimization strategies while maintaining performance requirements
Design monitoring systems that scale with our infrastructure growth
Benefits
Compensation & Benefits We are a well-funded, Seed-stage company preparing for launch. We offer:
Competitive base salary
Performance-based bonus based on achieving goals
Equity participation
Comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision, and paid time off
Flexible work environment—based in Miami, hybrid OK. Remote considered.