Full-Time Senior DevOps Engineer, New Networks

About the Role

We run 70+ blockchains here at Figment. Come help us onboard more!

This is a full-time remote position, with team members in North America and Europe.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us scale out our operations by planning and implementing projects to manage fleets of blockchain servers. This role presents unique opportunities to be involved in building out tooling where none exists in the industry. You will build production systems that need to handle newer (sometimes alpha quality) blockchain software. You’ll need to consider all aspects of security, monitoring, maintainability, and stability.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Lead the planning, testing, implementation, and management of projects to deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, and stable deployments across a variety of use cases
• Identify & implement solutions for common areas where automation can significantly increase our ability to manage all our infrastructure
• Identify areas of systemic risk & evaluate, propose, and implement solutions
• Manage and monitor cloud and physical servers across multiple global hosting services and data centres
• Automate blockchain software build, install, and management processes
• Perform Linux server administration, hardening, intrusion detection, and vulnerability scanning
• Debug complex distributed blockchains to help run them smoothly
• Identify tasks and processes that get stuck or move slowly and support the team in pushing them through
• Explain broad initiatives and vision to Engineering Leadership and Product
• Demonstrate technical expertise in multiple domains and act as a mentor to others on the team

Minimum Qualifications

• In-depth experience using Ansible (and similar tools) in environments with over 500 servers:
  • Designing complex static and dynamic inventories, variable structures, and playbooks
  • Writing custom Ansible roles from scratch, with advanced features such as Jinja2 templating, complex logic flows, dynamic roles/tasks, and handlers
  • Ensuring idempotency & reusability, and following applicable best practices
• In-depth experience supporting Linux servers in large, highly secure, and highly available 24/7 environments
• Demonstrated experience working with blockchain nodes or very strong knowledge of the blockchain domain
• Deep troubleshooting expertise of complex application flows which span multiple clusters of systems - to quickly identify server, network, and application issues; and methodical approach to implementing, testing, and measuring changes to remediate issues
• Knowledge of common OS and application level settings to optimize system performance
• Experience with common system administration scripting languages such as Bash and Python
• In-depth experience creating well organized modules with Terraform to ensure reusable cloud provisioning automation
• Deep understanding of networking and security best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Ansible role testing with Molecule (or similar tools) and Ansible module development experience
• Knowledge of, or experience with, Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake decentralized consensus mechanisms used in blockchains
• Experience running applications on Kubernetes
• Experience creating CI/CD pipelines from scratch to automate infrastructure provisioning and deploy applications (GitHub Actions or similar tools)
• Experience with Hashicorp Vault or other secure storage tools