DevOps Engineer

We are recruiting a DevOps engineer for a remote role with our client, an exciting U.S.-based blockchain technology fintech.

Our customer aims to develop a decentralized infrastructure through blockchain technology that enables institutional participants to reliably allocate assets on-chain and transfer value in a fully transparent, open-source, composable manner.

Our customer’s founding team has years of experience in stablecoin and crypto governance design as well as traditional securitization services. The company has been backed by some of the largest and most sophisticated investors in technology, including Pantera Capital, Road Capital, AirTree, Standard Crypto, The SALT Fund, ParaFi Capital, Distributed Capital, Kraynos Capital, Mouro Capital and Earlybird.

The role

In this role, you will have the opportunity to advise developers on deployment, infrastructure, and DevOps-related questions and issues while maintaining and improving our CI/CD pipelines.

You will work closely with the department lead and your colleagues to support our AWS-based Kubernetes infrastructures in accordance with industry standards and best practices, our coding guidelines, and DevOps/Infrastructure strategies.

• Advise developers on deployment, infrastructure, and DevOps-related questions and issues
• Maintain and continuously improve our CI/CD pipelines
• Support our AWS-based Kubernetes infrastructures‘ availability and system resilience
• Collaborate with the department lead and colleagues to advise engineers from Frontend, Backend, and Data departments
• Build and setup up new development tools and infrastructure components
• Maintain automated tests to ensure flawless operation of our build and deploy platform
• Secure, monitor, deploy, run and manage parts of our platform in different environments
• Contribute to the user experience through dashboards, APIs, and command-line tools
• Write comprehensive documentation for tooling and processes

Requirements

• Proficiency in the shell and open-source software
• A passion for learning and experimenting with new technologies
• Understanding of systems and networking engineering principles
• Solid experience in working with cloud networking and infrastructures at Amazon AWS
• Experience in building application containers using Docker and Helm packaging
• Experience in managing distributed applications using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)
• Experience administering PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB
• Bonus points for knowledge of messaging systems and NoSQL
• Bonus points for experience with Ansible
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to give and receive open, constructive feedback
• Proficient English

Our core tech stack is:

• AWS
• Terraform
• Docker/Helm
• GitLab
• PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB/RabbitMQ
• PHP/Python

Sounds interesting? We are excited to get to know you!

If you have any questions you would like to ask or if there is any additional information you would like to receive, please feel free to get in touch via [email protected].