Manager, DevOps Enterprise Architect

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About Amyris

Amyris is an integrated synthetic biology company applying breakthrough fermentation science to develop high-performance, sustainable ingredients and products. Our technology platform spans cloud-forward systems on Google Cloud Platform alongside on-premises infrastructure that supports our labs, manufacturing, and global workforce across the United States and Brazil. Our DevOps team helps make this cutting-edge science possible — and is looking for people who can connect the two worlds.

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%).

The ideal candidate is a hands-on DevOps leader (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, observability) with enterprise architecture experience across networking, identity, security, databases, and infrastructure. They turn ambiguous demands into well-defined, automated, and documented solutions. The role keeps regular overlap with both US Pacific and Brazil working hours.

Location: Remote, US. Candidates located near Emeryville, CA who can work on a hybrid basis are preferred, but this is not required. Remote employees should be available for occasional travel to Emeryville, CA.

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 outco