Alchemy is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Bucharest, Romania, to join their engineering team. The engineer will focus on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the infrastructure. Alchemy's mission is to bring web3 to a billion people by providing builders with the tools they need to build exceptional onchain products.
The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for ensuring product reliability and developer productivity. They will work with engineering teams to improve infrastructure and systems, focusing on deployment, logging, monitoring, and alerting. The role involves developing and owning best practices for managing infrastructure and developer processes.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and improving important infrastructure and systems
- Working with engineering to architect a migration from ECS to Kubernetes on EKS
- Developing and owning best practices for managing production infrastructure
- Developing and owning best practices for developer processes
- Providing input into long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines
- Continuously raising the standard of engineering excellence
- Building and maintaining documentation around processes and workflows
Requirements:
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems
- Experience working with AWS or cloud infrastructures in general
- Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker and Kubernetes (Preferred)
- Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio or Linkerd
- Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, ArgoCD and Spinnaker
- Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus, Stackdriver, and DataDog
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, etc)
- Experience with networking and configuring / managing VPC networks
- A basic understanding of security best practices (Preferred)
- Experience with streaming infrastructure (Kinesis, Kafka, etc) (Preferred)
- Good understanding of web applications, microservice architecture (Preferred)
- Experience working with startups
- Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3
- A hustler mentality, founding a company or building side projects is a plus!
What Alchemy Offers:
- Attractive salary package
- Opportunity to work with the latest cloud and blockchain technologies
- Flexible time away
- Private Medical Insurance
- Start-up environment: internal off-site hackathons, access to company-rented hacker house during summer
- Opportunity to travel across offices