Responsibilities
- Own digital infrastructure powering research, including compute resources from third parties, container registries, and dashboards.
- Ensure easy and efficient sharing of resources, reliability, and accessibility.
- Provide compute access, resource visibility into utilization and cluster health.
- Enable auto-scaling of compute resources based on demand.
- Manage access to ensure right people have appropriate permissions.
- Drive deterministic deployments and reproducible research environments.
- Automate operational processes for efficiency.
Current stack: Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Tailscale, Python, Grafana, Prometheus, Talos Linux.
Qualifications
- Ownership: Comfortable being accountable for cluster health and capacity.
- Systems Intuition: Understand schedulers, containers, networking, storage, hardware interactions; reason about failure modes.
- Operational Rigor: Value observability, reproducibility, clear boundaries; leave understandable systems.
- Pragmatism: Support experimental workloads without rigid production constraints.