Alchemy

Staff DevOps Engineer

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3 months ago
Bucharest, RomaniaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, operate, and maintain blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and geographic regions.
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters and the platform supporting blockchain nodes.
  • Perform rolling upgrades and hard fork migrations for EVM and non-EVM blockchain clients.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, triage incidents with PagerDuty, and coordinate resolution of outages, latency spikes, and SLO breaches.
  • Develop and maintain AI agents and automation for health checks, auto-healing, and hard fork notifications.
  • Deploy and manage services using ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, and Helm charts.
  • Provision, benchmark, and maintain bare-metal and cloud infrastructure, including hardware replacement.
  • Respond to security advisories and coordinate upgrades with minimal downtime.
  • Contribute to postmortems, async reviews, action-item tracking, and resolution follow-up.
  • Collaborate with product, customer success, and engineering teams on chain deprecations, capacity planning, and SLO reporting.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, including k3s or similar platforms, StatefulSets, storage management, Secrets, and service meshes such as Istio.
  • Experience managing secrets and access control in multi-cluster environments.
  • Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks, upgrades, and remediation workflows.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, or Puppet.
  • Experience with GitOps tooling, including ArgoCD and Helm.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, bare-metal management, storage provisioning, and snapshot management.
  • Proficiency with Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager, including building or tuning dashboards and alert rules.
  • Comfort working in an on-call environment and triaging production incidents using PagerDuty and structured runbooks.
  • Ability to write technical documentation and postmortems and contribute to async-first communication.
  • Experience with networking and configuring or managing VPC networks.
  • Basic understanding of security best practices.
  • Preferred experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio, web applications, microservice architecture, startups, and blockchain or Web3 technologies.

Benefits

  • Attractive salary package.
  • Flexible time away.
  • Private medical insurance.
  • Internal off-site hackathons.
  • Access to a company-rented hacker house during summer.
  • Opportunity to travel across offices.

Tech Stack

AnsibleChefGrafanaHelmIstioKubernetesPrometheusPuppetTerraform

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