# Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Alchemy](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alchemy)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, California
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $135k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Helm, Argo CD, Istio, GitOps, Cloudflare
**Posted:** 2026-04-14

> Designs, deploys, and improves scalable blockchain infrastructure using Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud tools. Drives AI enablement, builds observability with Prometheus/Grafana, manages multi-cloud networks, and leads incident response. Requires 5+ years in SRE/infrastructure with strong automation focus.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Architect and operate scalable, self-healing infrastructure leveraging **Kubernetes**, **Terraform**, and cloud-native tools across multi-region deployments.
- Drive AI enablement across engineering — ensuring repos, tooling, and workflows are optimized for agentic development with tools like **Claude Code**, **Cursor**, and **Codex**.
- Build AI-powered infrastructure tooling and automation (e.g., automated K8s upgrades, IaC plan analysis, cost optimization advisors, MCP servers, **n8n** workflows).
- Build and maintain internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities for self-service deployments, observability, and reliability.
- Develop observability frameworks using **Prometheus** and **Grafana** for metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Lead incident management with blameless post-mortems; define and enforce **SLIs**, **SLOs**, and error budgets across services.
- Design and manage multi-cloud, multi-region network architecture — **VPC** design, **IPAM**, **DNS** (**Cloudflare**), cross-cloud connectivity, security groups, and edge-proxy/**istio** gateway configuration.
- Collaborate with security teams to embed compliance into infrastructure, including IaC scanning and runtime protection.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to elevate the team's operational capabilities.

## What We're Looking For
- 5+ years as an **Infrastructure Engineer** focused on reliability (**SRE**, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer).
- Experience driving company-wide reliability efforts, including **SLO** frameworks and error budget policies.
- Strong proficiency with observability stacks: **OpenTelemetry**, **Prometheus**/**Grafana**.
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (**AWS**/**GCP**), **Kubernetes**, and multi-region architectures.
- Skilled with **Terraform**, **Helm**, and **GitOps** workflows (e.g., **ArgoCD**) with an automation-first mindset.
- Experience leveraging agentic development tools (**Claude Code**, **Cursor**, **Codex**) and workflow automation (**n8n**) to accelerate IaC and build internal tooling is a strong plus.
- Solid networking fundamentals — **VPC** design, **DNS**, **IPAM**, security groups, cross-cloud connectivity, and service mesh (e.g., **Istio**) experience is a plus.
- Calm and effective incident responder with a focus on systemic improvement.
- Strong cross-functional communicator across **SRE**, security, and product engineering.
- Blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput RPC experience — not required but a plus.

## Benefits and Perks
- Medical, Dental, & Vision
- Gym Reimbursement
- Home Office Build-out Budget
- In-Office Group Meals
- Wellbeing & Mental Health Perks
- Learning & Development Stipend
- Company Sponsored Conferences & Events
- HSA and FSA Plans
- Fertility Benefits
- Competitive compensation including base salary and equity
- 401k
- Unlimited flexible time off

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