BitMEX is hiring a
Senior DevOps Engineer in Singapore

Summary

BitMEX is a leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform looking for a Platform Engineer to manage and support their infrastructure. The role involves improving system reliability, optimizing network performance, managing AWS cloud infrastructure, and ensuring security hardening.

Requirements

• Theoretical and practical networking knowledge, including unicast and multicast routing protocols, Linux kernel’s TCP stack implementation, congestion avoidance/control (e.g. BBR), traffic control, network simulation, AWS VPC / TGW & Kubernetes VPC CNI, etc
• Professional experience with kernel troubleshooting: strace, bpftrace, perf profiling/tracing, navigating / reading / building the relevant kernel code
• Professional experience with userland monitoring (e.g. Thanos/Prometheus/AlertManaging), logging (e.g. Splunk/Loki), alerting, troubleshooting, profiling/tracing, etc
• Strong practical AWS knowledge, with a minimum of 5 years of SRE / DevOps experience supporting and managing Linux based systems
• Familiarity with Kubernetes / Ansible / Chef, and with one or more programming language: Python, Golang, C, NodeJS

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve the resiliency, throughput and latency profiles of our trading systems by working hand-in-hand with our trading technology teams
• Manage and support our AWS cloud infrastructure, EC2 instances and physical servers
• Development and management of IaC to ensure consistency of our infrastructure
• Ensuring security hardening of our OS builds and configurations
• Manage and maintain config management tooling to ensure consistency
• Integration of our stack with Kubernetes
• Ensure SRE best practices for design and operation of the stack
• Design, implement and test disaster recovery capabilities to ensure our business can continue to operate in the event of a technology failure
• Participate in an on-call rota for escalations