Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Figment, the world's leading provider of blockchain infrastructure, as a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale out our operations by planning and implementing projects to manage fleets of blockchain servers.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

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