# Staff DevOps Engineer

**Company:** [Alchemy](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alchemy)
**Location:** Bucharest, Romania
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Argo CD, Helm, Istio, Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Pagerduty, GitOps, Vpc Networking, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> Operates and improves large-scale, multi-region blockchain RPC infrastructure across Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments. The role requires production operations, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, observability, incident response, and on-call experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Deploy, operate, and maintain blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and geographic regions.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters underlying the blockchain node platform.
- Perform rolling upgrades and hard fork migrations for blockchain clients across EVM and non-EVM chains.
- Participate in on-call rotations, triage live incidents via PagerDuty, and coordinate resolution for node outages, latency spikes, and SLO breaches.
- Develop and maintain AI agents and automation tooling for health checks, auto-healing, and hard fork notifications.
- Deploy and manage services using ArgoCD and GitOps workflows with Helm charts.
- Manage bare-metal and cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, benchmarking, and hardware replacement.
- Respond promptly to security advisories and coordinate upgrades with minimal downtime.
- Contribute to postmortems and asynchronous review processes; track action items and follow up on resolutions.
- 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 StatefulSets, storage management, Secrets, and service mesh technologies such as Istio.
- Experience with secrets management and access control in multi-cluster environments.
- Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks, upgrades, and remediation workflows.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, or Puppet.
- Experience with GitOps tooling, including ArgoCD and Helm.
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal management, including storage provisioning and snapshot management.
- Strong understanding of observability tooling, including Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager, with experience 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 asynchronous team communication.
- Experience with networking and configuring or managing VPC networks.
- Basic understanding of security best practices.
- Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio.
- Good understanding of web applications and microservice architecture.
- Experience working with startups.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Attractive salary package.
- Private medical insurance.
- Flexible time away.
- Internal off-site hackathons.
- Access to a company-rented hacker house during summer.
- Opportunities to travel across offices.

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