DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Alchemy; United States; Remote; USD 101,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Alchemy is building an AI-native platform for R&D labs, with a remote Europe-based DevOps role offering EU hours and US overlap. You will operate and modernize an established cloud platform, expanding Terraform coverage while maintaining CloudFormation infrastructure, and balancing reliability with cost efficiency.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, handle incidents, and contribute to tooling and security in a small, highly capable team, with strong emphasis on automation and documentation.

Qualifications

• Terraform expertise with multi-environment and drift diagnosis.
• Deep AWS networking: VPC, IAM, ECS/Fargate, Aurora MySQL, S3.
• Author and deploy CloudFormation templates, not just read.
• Own and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Bash and Python automation for tooling and glue code.
• Aurora MySQL operations: scaling, snapshots, failover and performance.
• Incident discipline with rollback planning and postmortems.
• Cost-aware engineering and cloud-cost visibility.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering and automated checks.
• Clear written English and thorough documentation.

Responsibilities

• Expand Terraform coverage and bring existing resources under code management.
• Own and improve GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines and environment automation.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and improve reliability of cloud infrastructure and services.
• Lead cloud-cost optimization via right-sizing and lifecycle management.
• Support customer deployments into AWS environments and document requirements.
• Remediate vulnerabilities and strengthen security posture and audits.
• Develop internal tooling for deployments and operational visibility.

Skills

Terraform

AWS depth

CloudFormation

CI/CD ownership

Bash

Python

Incident discipline

Cost awareness

AI-assisted engineering

Clear written English

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Aurora MySQL

ECS/Fargate

Terraform (modules)

Job description

DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Engineering

Europe (remote)

• Geo: Europe — remote, EU hours with US overlap
• Position: Full-time
• Experience: 5+ years in DevOps / infrastructure / SRE, 7+ preferred
• Flexible Location: Remote; hybrid or in office depending on the city
• Corporate Language: English
• Hours: EU hours with US overlap. The role includes substantial on-call responsibility within a small team.

Why this role exists

Scientists spend a staggering amount of time wrangling data instead of running experiments. We build the AI-native platform that changes that: the system of record and the intelligence layer for R&D labs formulating everything from next-gen batteries to sustainable materials to alternative proteins. Our software doesn't just store lab data, it designs experiments, recommends formulations, surfaces insights, and automates the busywork that stands between a researcher and their next discovery.

Alchemy is a multi-tenant enterprise ELN,LIMS, PLM and QC platform used by applied science companies in chemicals, materials and aerospace as well as all CPG categories. Our platform runs on AWS across multiple regions, including regulated environments. Core technologies include Terraform, ECS/Fargate and Aurora MySQL.

You’ll help operate and modernize an established cloud platform, expanding Terraform coverage while maintaining existing CloudFormation infrastructure. The role combines ongoing production operations with improvements to reliability, automation, security and cost efficiency.

What you'll do

You’ll take end-to-end responsibility for infrastructure operations and improvement:

• Infrastructure as code. Expand and maintain Terraform coverage, safely bring existing resources under code management, diagnose configuration drift and maintain CloudFormation infrastructure as it is progressively modernized.
• Deployment and release pipelines. Own and improve GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines, environment automation and regular releases across our cloud environments.
• Production reliability. Monitor and troubleshoot application infrastructure, databases, containers and networking. Handle incidents, improve observability and take substantial on-call responsibility as part of a small team.
• Cloud cost optimization. Improve cloud efficiency through right-sizing, capacity planning, resource lifecycle management and cost visibility.
• Customer-hosted deployments. Support deployments into customer-managed AWS environments and produce clear technical documentation for customer infrastructure and security teams.
• Security and compliance. Remediate infrastructure and dependency vulnerabilities, strengthen platform security and support audit evidence and compliance requirements.
• Internal tooling. Build and improve tools for environment management, deployments and operational visibility. Java or Vue expertise is not required, but practical automation and tool-building skills are essential.

Who you are

Must have

• Terraform — modules, state, multi-environment and multi-region layout, and specifically import, state mv/rm, targeted applies, and diagnosing drift on infrastructure you did not create.
• AWS depth, not breadth — VPC and networking (peering, NAT, security groups, NACLs), IAM, ECS/Fargate, Aurora MySQL including Serverless v2, ALB/NLB, S3, Secrets Manager and SSM, CloudWatch, Lambda, Batch.
• CloudFormation you can author and deploy, not only read — legacy templates are still load-bearing here and will be for a while.
• CI/CD ownership — GitHub Actions and Jenkins, building and maintaining pipelines rather than consuming them.
• Bash and Python for automation, tooling and operational glue.
• Aurora MySQL operations — sizing and scaling, snapshots, clones and restores, failover, connection and pool behaviour, and reading a slow query. The application's schema is not yours to own.
• Incident discipline — scope by time window, form a hypothesis, prepare a rollback before you touch anything, write up what happened.
• Cost awareness as an engineering skill, not a finance report.
• AI-assisted engineering - Practical experience using coding agents, writing clear guidance for them and building automated checks around their output. Sound engineering judgment and human review of production changes are essential.
• Clear written English and the habit of documenting so someone else can operate it.

Strongly preferred

• Multi-region operations (EU + US) and data-residency awareness.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud or other regulated cloud environments, including controlled access and operational requirements.
• Deploying a product into a customer's own cloud account, and writing the documents their security review consumes.
• PR-based infrastructure change and review culture — plan output read as evidence, not as a formality.
• SSO/OIDC, CloudFront behaviour and debugging.
• Vulnerability patching at image and dependency level (ECR, Trivy, Scout, Dependabot or equivalents).
• ISO 27001 / SOC 2 exposure from the engineering side.

Nice to have

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer Professional).
• Azure or GCP exposure.
• Java / Spring Boot familiarity, enough to read the application and reason about deployment behaviour.
• WAF and edge security, EKS/Kubernetes, Datadog or Grafana-stack experience are signals of range, not requirements.

How you work

• You automate repetitive work and maintain clear operational documentation
• You are comfortable improving established systems while keeping them running reliably
• You treat infrastructure as code as an ongoing engineering responsibility
• You take ownership of operational problems across infrastructure and application behaviour
• You balance planned improvements with internal engineering support. Around half of the team’s incoming work involves helping other teams resolve blockers
• You document decisions and procedures so others can operate the systems you maintain

Your impact

You’ll help shape how we operate and improve the infrastructure behind an enterprise platform. Your work will improve deployment reliability, cloud efficiency, security and the day-to-day experience of our engineering teams.

This is a hands‑on role in a small team, with broad ownership across an established platform. You’ll balance infrastructure modernization with production operations, on‑call responsibilities and substantial internal engineering support.

Alchemy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.

Alchemy provides so much more than our old Biovia and Sharepoint systems. Alchemy makes it easy to track work across our core processes, so we can shorten individual steps and accelerate our time to market. – Jerry Powers, Technical Director, Vibrantz

Alchemy helps product and technical teams at applied sciences companies make better products faster.