Founding Applied AI SRE Engineer

Mistral AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal and transportation allowances

Location-specific perks

Job summary

Mistral AI is seeking a founding SRE/Production Engineer to design and operate a fleet-management framework that ensures reliable delivery across all accounts, both hosted and customer-hosted. You will build scalable systems, own on-call processes, and drive security and observability to new levels.

You will work in a fast-paced, autonomous environment, bridging cutting-edge AI research with production-grade reliability, and helping shape the security-first culture across the Applied AI

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or DevOps, with a track record of shipping tooling.
• Strong multi-tenant Kubernetes fluency, namespace segmentation, network policy, RBAC, admission control, operations at scale.
• On-call discipline: incident response, blameless post-mortems, runbook-first mindset.
• Observability stack in production: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo, Signoz.
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible (or equivalents).
• Proficient in Python and/or Golang for tooling and automation.
• Security mindset: secure-SDLC, CVE response, supply-chain integrity as reliability properties.

Responsibilities

• BUILD: Design for a fleet of Mistral platforms, implement observability, and document SLOs.
• RUN: Operate Tier-1 customer environments, ensure SLOs, manage on-call and incident response.
• ENABLE: Productize deployment, security baselines, and automation across the fleet.
• SECURE: Own security operations, CVE response, SBOMs, signed images, and secure-config baselines.

Skills

SRE experience

Production engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

Security mindset

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Loki

Tempo

Signoz

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Mistral AI is seeking a founding SRE/Production Engineer to design and operate a fleet-management framework that ensures reliable delivery across all accounts, both hosted and customer-hosted. You will build scalable systems, own on-call processes, and drive security and observability to new levels.

You will work in a fast-paced, autonomous environment, bridging cutting-edge AI research with production-grade reliability, and helping shape the security-first culture across the Applied AI