As a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for keeping our product up and running, helping the development team make patches to the environment, and adjusting deployment pipelines as necessary. This is a contractor position from Oct’23 to March’24.
You will be embedded in the engineering team and collaborating with 1-2 DevOps engineers and the Head of Infrastructure (who are based in Europe and Dubai) and providing appropriate coverage for the PST/EST time zones.
Candidate profile
- Background in Computer Science or any related field such as Mathematics & Physics
- Experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, or similar software engineering role
- Experience with, and advanced knowledge of, Docker
- Advanced knowledge of Amazon Web Services
- Good knowledge of Kubernetes and basic familiarity with ArgoCD
- Knowledge of version control, CI/CD, GitHub Actions
- Absolute reliability and ability to work independently
- Fluent English communication, both written and spoken
- Problem-solving attitude, great eye for detail and collaborative team spirit
Nice to have
- Fluency in different programming languages, including Bash, Python, and Javascript
- Hands-on experience with blockchain infrastructure, from node setup to data consumption from different providers (e.g. Infura, Alchemy, etc)
- AWS Professional Certifications
- Experience with blockchain systems, bridges, and layer-2 solutions
Responsibilities
- Ramping up to the full understanding of how the product is deployed and operated
- Understanding of how the system looks when it is healthy, and the ability to trace the flow of data through the system end-to-end to find problems
- Keeping a product up and investigating downtime or deployment-related issues
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Helping software engineers promote new releases and patches
- Working with the rest of the team on triaging and fixes of the platform, including possible over time hours in case of an emergency
- Being on-call according to a predefined schedule (daytime PST/EST hours)
- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
- Willing to learn about blockchain and keep up with the field as required
Job locations: Remote
