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Staff DevOps Engineer

DevOps / SRE • Principal • Remote • Full-time European Union EU/EMEA

Alchemy is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to operate and evolve the global blockchain infrastructure, running blockchain RPC nodes at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, operate, and maintain blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and regions
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters underlying the node infrastructure
  • Perform rolling upgrades and hard fork migrations across EVM and non-EVM chains
  • Operate on-call rotations, triage live incidents via PagerDuty
  • Develop AI agents and automation tooling for health checks and auto-heal
  • Deploy and manage services via ArgoCD and GitOps workflows (Helm charts)
  • Manage bare-metal and cloud infrastructure including provisioning and hardware replacement
  • Respond promptly to security advisories, coordinate upgrades
  • Contribute to postmortems and async review processes
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, customer success, and engineering

Requirements

  • Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems
  • Kubernetes experience (k3s or similar), StatefulSets, storage management, Secrets, service mesh (Istio)
  • Secrets management and access control in multi-cluster environments
  • Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks and upgrades
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet)
  • GitOps tooling experience - ArgoCD, Helm
  • Cloud and bare-metal infrastructure management, storage provisioning and snapshot management
  • Strong observability tooling skills - Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager
  • Comfort working in an on-call environment with structured runbooks
  • Ability to write clear technical documentation and postmortems
  • Networking and VPC configuration experience
  • Basic understanding of security best practices

Nice to have

  • Experience with Istio service mesh deployments
  • Understanding of web applications and microservice architecture
  • Experience working with startups
  • Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3

Soft skills

Calm, structured incident handlingCross-functional collaborationClear technical documentation

What we offer

  • Attractive salary package
  • Opportunity to work with the latest cloud and blockchain technologies
  • Flexible time away
  • Private medical insurance
  • Startup environment: internal hackathons, hacker house in summer
  • Opportunity to travel across offices

About the company

Alchemy is a blockchain developer platform running a global RPC node network for its customers.

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