Senior AI Infra Engineer — Enterprise Cloud & Automation

Tessera; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Tessera Labs is hiring an AI Infrastructure Engineer (Senior) to design and own production-grade AI agent infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. You will work on Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, security, and reliability with ownership over architectural decisions.

This senior IC role emphasizes building portable, secure infrastructure, automating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, and enabling enterprise-grade AI deployments across cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Strong hands-on experience in Azure, Oracle Cloud, GCP or AWS.
• Proven track record designing and owning CI/CD systems, pipeline architecture, GitOps-driven deployments, release automation, and pipeline-as-code practices expanded.
• Experience building automation frameworks for DevOps and developer workflows, including scripting (Bash, Python, or similar), workflow orchestration, and self-service tooling that reduces manual intervention across engineering processes expanded.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Proven experience deploying and operating real production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade AI agent infrastructure.
• Be part of a team that supports Tessera’s AI infrastructure across every cloud provider.
• Build and be the primary owner of the Azure or Oracle Cloud variant of Tessera’s cloud infrastructure, also support GCP and AWS.
• Enable portable infrastructure across customer environments.
• Improve observability, security, and system reliability.
• Deploy and operate applications using Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Partner closely with product and platform engineers to unblock delivery.
• Design and build CI/CD pipelines, own the end-to-end automation of build, test, and deployment workflows for both infrastructure and application code.
• Build and maintain a reusable automation framework for day-to-day DevOps and developer workflows, covering environment provisioning, secret rotation, dependency updates, compliance checks, and release management.
• Automate operational runbooks and recurring processes, identify manual work across the engineering org and systematically eliminate it through scripts, pipeline stages, and self-service tooling.
• Champion an automation-first mindset across the team, if something is done twice, it should be automated; if it’s automated, it should be observable and maintained like production code

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure

Oracle Cloud

GCP

AWS

CI/CD

GitOps

Networking

Observability

Security

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Tessera Labs is hiring an AI Infrastructure Engineer (Senior) to design and own production-grade AI agent infrastructure across multiple cloud providers. You will work on Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, security, and reliability with ownership over architectural decisions.

This senior IC role emphasizes building portable, secure infrastructure, automating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, and enabling enterprise-grade AI deployments across cloud platforms.