Lead DevOps Engineer

The highest calling for AI is improving human health. At Perceptic, we're building the AI operating system that powers drug discovery - a unified intelligence layer that connects evidence, reasoning, and action across the entire drug lifecycle.

We were built by operators from Palantir who spent years deploying production AI in the world's most demanding enterprise environments. We know what it takes to make ambitious technology hold up under real pressure. Now we're applying that to pharma and we're hiring engineers who've operated at the same standard.

A single drug can take more than a decade and billions of dollars to reach a patient, and the systems we build are meant to compress that timeline. They run inside some of the most security-conscious, compliance-bound enterprises in the world, where the infrastructure underneath has to be as trustworthy as the science on top of it.

Who we need

We need a Lead DevOps Engineer to own that infrastructure end to end. You'll be the single, clear owner of how Perceptic deploys, operates, secures, and scales, across our own platform and across the isolated customer environments where the bar for trust is absolute. It's a large amount of responsibility, which is exactly what we're offering.

What you'll own

• Our GitOps deployment backbone on Argo CD, so a small team can ship continuously and safely across many clusters

• Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) across our fleet of production environments

• Infrastructure-as-code in Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt, the source of truth for everything we run

• Multi-tenant, per-customer isolation: standing up a fully isolated, compliant environment for each pharma customer, with its own cluster and data plane, and deploying to it with confidence. This is the hardest and most important part of the job.

• Security and compliance posture: secrets management, access controls, infrastructure hardening, and the SOC2-and-beyond controls that customers will audit you on

• Observability: telemetry, metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting that keep a complex distributed system legible

• Reliability, incident response, and the operational runbooks that protect customer trust

• CI/CD and release automation that keep our shipping cadence high

• Developer experience: making it fast and painless for engineers to deploy and debug

What we're looking for

• At least 4 years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure

• You've owned production systems rather than only contributing to them, including multi-tenant or customer-specific environments, and you understand the complexity that comes with them