Senior Cloud Platform SRE for AI - Reliability & Scale

Mistral; France; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral is building a reliable Cloud Platform to support AI workloads. As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Cloud Platform team, you will shape reliability, scalability, and performance across our customer-facing applications.

Collaborate with software engineers and product teams to ensure systems meet internal and external expectations, while maintaining minimal downtime. This role offers global collaboration across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or SRE role, with strong expertise in bare metal infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with site reliability issues, including root cause analysis, in-production troubleshooting, and on-call rotations.
• Proficiency in working with reliability KPIs, such as observability, alerting, and SLAs.
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash) and a strong understanding of software development best practices.
• Solid grasp of networking, security, and system administration concepts.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment.
• Experience in an AI/ML environment, HPC systems, or modern AI-oriented solutions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructures to support our Cloud platform.
• Operate systems and troubleshoot issues in production environments, including interrupts, on-call responses, and infrastructure scaling.
• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems to minimize downtime and optimize performance.
• Develop and maintain workflows and tools for CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, monitoring, and logging.
• Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure automation, deployment, and orchestration.
• Collaborate with software engineers to enable safe and reproducible model-training experiments.
• Build and enhance a cloud platform that abstracts infrastructure complexities for science and engineering teams.
• Design and develop new workflows, tooling, and automation to improve system reliability, availability, and performance.
• Ensure infrastructure adheres to security best practices and compliance requirements in collaboration with the security team.
• Document processes and procedures to ensure consistency and knowledge sharing across the team.

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Datadog

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

Mistral is building a reliable Cloud Platform to support AI workloads. As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Cloud Platform team, you will shape reliability, scalability, and performance across our customer-facing applications.

Collaborate with software engineers and product teams to ensure systems meet internal and external expectations, while maintaining minimal downtime. This role offers global collaboration across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.