DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer owning operations and modernization of Alchemy Cloud's multi-tenant AWS platform for R&D labs (ELN/LIMS/PLM/QC). Day to day: expanding Terraform coverage, maintaining CloudFormation, running GitHub Actions/Jenkins pipelines, plus reliability, on-call, cost and security work.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Poland
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years in DevOps / infrastructure / SRE
- Terraform: modules, state, multi-environment/multi-region layouts, import, state mv/rm, targeted applies, drift diagnosis
- Deep AWS: VPC/networking, IAM, ECS/Fargate, Aurora MySQL (incl. Serverless v2), ALB/NLB, S3, Secrets Manager/SSM, CloudWatch, Lambda, Batch
- Can author and deploy CloudFormation, not only read it
- CI/CD ownership with GitHub Actions and Jenkins
- Bash and Python for automation, tooling and operational glue
- Aurora MySQL operations: sizing/scaling, snapshots, clones, restores, failover, connection pooling, slow query analysis
- Incident discipline: scoping, hypothesis, rollback prep, write-ups
- Cloud cost awareness as an engineering skill
- Practical experience with AI coding agents and building automated checks around their output
- Clear written English and strong documentation habits
Nice to have
- 7+ years experience
- Multi-region operations (EU + US) and data-residency awareness
- Experience with AWS GovCloud or other regulated cloud environments
- Deploying products into customer-owned cloud accounts and writing security-review documentation
- PR-based infrastructure change and review culture
- SSO/OIDC and CloudFront behaviour/debugging
- Vulnerability patching at image/dependency level (ECR, Trivy, Scout, Dependabot)
- ISO 27001 / SOC 2 exposure from the engineering side
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer Professional)
- Azure or GCP exposure
- Java / Spring Boot familiarity to read the application
- WAF/edge security, EKS/Kubernetes, Datadog or Grafana stack experience
Full description
- Geo: Europe
- 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: Europe 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.