DevOps Manager

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

📋 Description

• Oversee a small team of senior infrastructure and DevOps engineers located across Europe, the US, and soon APAC.

• Manage recruitment, conduct one-on-one meetings, support employee development, and oversee workload distribution.

• Establish and maintain on-call and incident management protocols, which encompass severity definitions, escalation procedures, paging, and post-incident evaluations.

• Collaborate with the Security team to develop NOC/SOC capabilities.

• Lead the migration from the previous parent company’s infrastructure, including infrastructure-as-code, root access management, and the transfer of tooling ownership.

• Define operational commitments for clients, covering aspects such as availability, maintenance schedules, RTO/RPO, disaster recovery testing, and supplementary documentation.

• Oversee cloud expenditure and analyze per-transaction unit economics.

• Assist in preparing for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 infrastructure audits.

• Conduct an infrastructure assessment, create runbooks and handover procedures, establish the NOC and on-call rotation, execute the hiring strategy, and complete a tested failover within the initial 90 days.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing a DevOps/SRE/platform team of four or more members.

• Sufficient technical knowledge to review and critique a Terraform diff.

• Experience in building an on-call function from the ground up or revitalizing a dysfunctional one.

• Previous ownership of a production system with contractual availability obligations.

• Ability to communicate effectively about outages to customers.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (IaC), GitOps, and multi-cloud environments (AWS and Azure).

• Experience with transitions, migrations, or carve-outs where the tooling belonged to another entity, but accountability rested with you.

• Able to remain direct and composed in high-pressure situations.

• Experience with Blockchain/Ethereum node operations is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Background in financial services or regulated industry infrastructure is a plus but not required.

• Experience with security tooling and SOC operations is beneficial but not required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote and globally distributed organization.

• Asynchronous work culture.

• Competitive salary package.

• Significant equity opportunities.

• Opportunity to contribute to genuinely open source software at the forefront of web3.

• Supportive atmosphere promoting inclusivity and equal opportunities.