Manager, DevOps Enterprise Architect

Position Overview

The Manager, Enterprise DevOps Architect will serve as a senior technical and team leader for Amyris's hybrid infrastructure and for the CI/CD and DevOps practices that deliver across them. This individual will bridge the gap between Amyris's cloud-forward direction on Google Cloud Platform and its on-premises IT estate, defining the standards, automation practices, and integration patterns that allow both environments to operate as one coherent platform.

The role combines hands-on architecture with team leadership, owning infrastructure and DevOps strategy and representing technology to Amyris's Computing teams — Data Science, Software Engineering, and Data Engineering — and to stakeholders in Business Development, R&D, and Manufacturing. This is a technical and team lead role, split evenly between technical execution and team leadership (50-50%).

Key Responsibilities

Hybrid Cloud & On-Prem Integration

• Architect and document hybrid infrastructure spanning GCP and on-premises environments across US and Brazil sites.
• Lead data-center right-sizing and workload-placement decisions based on lab and business needs, including reliability, latency, hardware dependencies, cost, and operational requirements.
• Define GCP landing zones, migration patterns, and cloud-native design standards, partnering with IT Infrastructure and Operations on networking, identity, and security integration.
• Own ongoing GCP cost visibility, forecasting, and optimization with workload owners, balancing savings against performance, reliability, and business requirements.

CI/CD & DevOps Automation

• Establish delivery-performance baselines and improvement targets with Software Engineering, tracking deployment frequency, change lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time following failed deployments.
• Partner with Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science to provide reusable templates, self-service environments, and documented deployment workflows that reduce friction and manual handoffs.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release automation across cloud and on-premises environments, including modernization of legacy pipelines.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code and version-controlled configuration to manage desired infrastructure state and automate routine operations.
• Define container platform and GitOps standards, and evaluate and adopt emerging platform, cloud, and AI capabilities – including supporting services and controls – where they improve engineering or operational outcomes.

Reliability, Security & Governance

• Define service-level objectives with application owners and lab and business stakeholders, supported by observability and alerting that measure service health and enable timely response.
• Establish high-availability, disaster-recovery, and incident-management practices aligned with IT Infrastructure and Operations; use incident reviews to reduce recurring failures and operational cost.
• Partner with the Cybersecurity Lead to harden infrastructure against relevant benchmarks and automate security controls, including certificate and secret lifecycle management.
• Maintain architecture decisions, standards, runbooks, and operational documentation that support consistent delivery and reliable operations.

Team & Stakeholder Leadership

• Own infrastructure and DevOps strategy and a capacity-based roadmap, translating business priorities and operational demands into clear team commitments.
• Hire, lead, and develop DevOps and platform engineers across the US and Brazil, setting expectations and providing hands-on technical guidance.
• Serve as the technical authority and escalation point for DevOps and hybrid-infrastructure architecture decisions.
• Coordinate distributed-team coverage and direct MSP engineers assigned to platform work, establishing service expectations, handoffs, and on-call arrangements with IT Infrastructure and Operations, which retains ownership of MSP relationships and contracts.