DevOps Engineer, Blockchain Infra

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

• Operate and enhance Kubernetes clusters within production settings.

• Oversee cluster autoscaling and capacity planning utilizing Karpenter and Kubernetes native solutions.

• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code through Terraform.

• Design and refine CI/CD pipelines for both application and infrastructure deployment.

• Deploy and manage middleware platforms including Kafka, Redis, and NGINX.

• Automate operational processes using Golang and Python.

• Enhance observability via monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing.

• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, security, and disaster recovery.

• Diagnose production incidents and conduct root cause analysis.

• Collaborate closely with software engineers to enhance deployment processes and improve developer experience on the platform.

• Engage in on-call rotations and incident response activities.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineer.

• Proficient experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Practical experience managing Kubernetes environments in production.

• Familiarity with Karpenter for Kubernetes autoscaling and node lifecycle management.

• Extensive experience with Terraform for automating infrastructure.

• Proficiency in administering Linux systems and understanding networking fundamentals.

• Experience with middleware technologies such as Kafka, Redis, and NGINX.

• Strong scripting and programming abilities in Golang and Python.

• Experience with Git, GitOps workflows, and CI/CD tools.

• In-depth knowledge of observability tools like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

• Acquainted with container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.

• Familiarity with blockchain RPC services, validators, indexing services, or distributed consensus mechanisms.

• Experience in deploying and managing blockchain nodes (e.g., Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Cosmos, or other Layer 1/Layer 2 networks).

• Knowledge of Argo CD, Helm, Helmfile, or Flux.

• Experience with multi-region and multi-cloud deployments.

• Understanding of cloud security best practices, IAM, networking, and secrets management.

• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.

• Familiarity with message queues, distributed caching, and high-throughput systems.

• Experience in performance tuning and capacity planning for large-scale distributed systems.

• Background in operating multi-region, multi-cloud production environments.

• Experience within cryptocurrency exchanges or blockchain infrastructure providers.

• Knowledge of RPC infrastructure, distributed databases, or high-performance networking.

• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices (IAM, WAF, Vault, KMS, etc.).

• Experience contributing to open-source projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive company benefits.

• Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the role and team requirements).

• Opportunities for career advancement and continuous learning.

• Autonomy in a results-oriented workplace.

• Collaborate with exceptional talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure.