DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Auros as an experienced DevOps engineer to support our high-performance infrastructure for trading digital assets. You will play a key role in building, deploying, and supporting systems executing millions of trades globally. Responsibilities include maintaining and improving global infrastructure, enhancing security, collaborating with other teams, developing internal tools, and troubleshooting applications. This role requires experience managing Linux systems, cloud management using Terraform, proficiency in Linux administration, container management, and instrumentation tooling. Strong cybersecurity knowledge and coding skills (Python and bash) are essential. The position offers remote work and collaboration with a global team.

Requirements

• An SRE/DevOps professional with 3+ years experience managing Linux systems in a high-performance environment
• Cloud management using Terraform, with experience in the AWS environment and ideally Azure
• Proficiency in Linux admin and configuration management using Ansible
• A strong background in container management, deployment, and orchestration. Kubernetes experience is good to have, strong basic docker skills are required
• Hands-on experience with instrumentation tooling, particularly Prometheus/Grafana
• This is not a network engineer role but a strong familiarity with TCP/IP and host-level networking is expected
• Python and bash experience is a must
• Strong knowledge of cloud security and IAM policies is required
• SIEM and threat management experience
• Understanding of network security and application of zero-trust principles
• Must know how to secure Mac and Linux endpoints

Responsibilities

• Participate in a daytime-hours on-call roster to support our trading operations
• Maintain and improve our global infrastructure with high performance and reliability requirements
• Improve and update the security infrastructure of a widely distributed company that operates in a high-risk environment
• Engage and collaborate with other teams for system design discussions and improving DevOps processes
• Development of internal tools and automation to accomplish infrastructure team goals
• Application tuning and troubleshooting; you will keep abreast of changes to trading system features and deployment, providing guidance to developers looking to improve their application performance or reliability
• Work closely with developers, traders and other staff to accomplish our firm’s goals

Preferred Qualifications

• While not a requirement, experience working in the cryptocurrency industry and familiarity with running blockchain RPC infrastructure is beneficial
• A strong interest in cryptocurrency and finance in general is desired
• Knowledge of networking management and routing in both a cloud and global SD-WAN environment is a plus
• Ideally, you’ll have experience with low-level performance tuning across physical hardware, cloud instances, and network latency. We expect some experience in at least one aspect of performance optimization
• Javascript/Typescript or Go experience are nice to have
• Software supply chain security knowledge and experience will be desired, along with an understanding of vulnerability and secret scanning within CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

• This role offers the opportunity to work with a highly experienced and collaborative team, across the globe
• You’ll work remotely from your own location engaging regularly with colleagues through Zoom meetings, Slack, and other communication channels