DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Alchemy; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Alchemy is seeking an experienced DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer to operate and improve a multi-region cloud platform supporting research and product development workflows. This full-time role combines production operations with modernization work focused on reliability, automation, security, and cost efficiency.

You\'ll help expand infrastructure-as-code coverage while maintaining an established environment and participate in on-call work within a small team.

Qualifications

• Five+ years in DevOps, infra engineering, or SRE.
• Willingness to handle substantial on-call duties.
• Professional English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day infrastructure operations and contribute to improvements across the platform.
• Expand Terraform-managed infrastructure while supporting CloudFormation resources.
• Improve reliability, automation, security, and cloud cost efficiency.
• Support a platform running on AWS across multiple regions, including regulated environments.
• Participate in the team\'s on-call rotation and respond to operational needs.

Skills

DevOps

Infrastructure engineering

Site reliability engineering

English communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ECS/Fargate

Aurora MySQL

Job description

Role overview

Operate and improve a multi-region cloud platform that supports research and product development workflows. This full-time infrastructure role combines production operations with modernization work focused on reliability, automation, security, and cost efficiency. You'll help expand infrastructure-as-code coverage while maintaining an established environment, and take part in substantial on-call work within a small team.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day infrastructure operations and contribute to ongoing improvements across the platform.
• Expand and maintain Terraform-managed infrastructure while supporting existing CloudFormation resources.
• Improve service reliability, automation, security, and cloud cost efficiency.
• Support a platform running on AWS across multiple regions, including regulated environments.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and respond to operational needs.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering; seven or more years is preferred.
• Ability to work remotely from Europe, with working hours aligned to Europe and some overlap with the United States.
• Professional English communication skills.
• Readiness to take on substantial on-call responsibility as part of a small team.

Nice to have

• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, ECS/Fargate, Aurora MySQL, or comparable cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Background operating multi-region or regulated cloud environments.

Benefits and work setup

Full-time position based in Europe, with remote work available; hybrid or office arrangements may depend on location. The platform serves research and development teams working across applied science and product industries.