Job Overview

At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time, and enhance learning and creativity. Our technology is designed to integrate seamlessly into daily working life. We democratize AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products and solutions. Our comprehensive AI platform is designed to meet enterprise needs, whether on-premises or in cloud environments. Our offerings include le Chat, the AI assistant for life and work. We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between France, USA, UK, Germany and Singapore. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited. Join us to be part of a pioneering company shaping the future of AI. Together, we can make a meaningful impact. See more about our culture on https://mistral.ai/careers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructures
• Build, scale and automate the full lifecycle of compute nodes, from bootstrapping to decommissioning
• Design and develop new workflows and tooling to improve to the reliability, availability and performance of our systems (automation scripts, API-based features, web apps, dashboards, etc.)
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure automation, deployment, and orchestration (CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, monitoring, logging and alerting systems...)
• Operate systems and troubleshoot issues in production environments (interrupts, on-call responses, users admin, data extraction, infrastructure scaling, etc.)
• Participate occasionally in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences
• Collaborate closely with R&D to streamline build systems, scale testing workflows and make sure our inference and model training environments are always highly available and seamlessly replicable across several HPC clusters
• Collaborate with the security team to ensure infrastructure adheres to best security practices and compliance requirements

Required Qualifications

About you

• 7+ years of experience in a DevOps/SRE role
• Exposure to highly available distributed systems and site reliability issues in critical environments (issue root cause analysis, in-production troubleshooting, on-call rotations...)
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash...) and knowledge of software development best practices
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes..)
• Proven experience troubleshooting complex K8s cluster issues and performing system upgrades
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog...)
• Experience working against reliability KPIs (obs...