The Role
As an engineer focused on DevOps and infrastructure at Alchemy, you’ll be working with the wider engineering team on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the infrastructure that supports our developer platform used globally
You’ll architect state of the art solutions for managing complex backend systems and leverage your experience to create a highly available live system for our customers
Responsibilities:
- Dual focus on developer productivity and product reliability
- Improve important infrastructure and systems from an operational standpoint (eg deployment, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc
) - Work with engineering to architect a migration from ECS to Kubernetes on EKS
- Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure: provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, monitoring, etc
- Develop and own best practices for developer processes: CI/CD, dev and staging environments, etc
- Provide input into long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines with a focus on reliability
- Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
- Build and maintain documentation around process and workflows
What We’re Looking For:
- 6+ years of experience as a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems
- Experience working with AWS and cloud infrastructures in general
- Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio or Linkerd
- Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools such as CircleCI and Spinnaker
- Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus, Stackdriver, and DataDog
- Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code ( Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, etc)
- Experience with networking and configuring / managing VPC networks
- An understanding of security best practices
- (Preferred) Experience with streaming infrastructure (Kinesis, Kafka, etc)
- (Preferred) Good understanding of web applications, microservice architecture
- Experience working with startups
- Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3
- A hustler mentality, founding a company or building side projects is a plus!
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