Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Auros, a leading cryptocurrency market maker, as a DevOps Engineer and play a key role in supporting our high-performance global infrastructure. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving our systems, enhancing security and resilience, and collaborating with various teams. This remote position requires experience in Linux systems management, cloud management (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), container management (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and application instrumentation. Strong coding skills (Python and bash) and cybersecurity knowledge are essential. We offer a flexible work environment, autonomy, and the opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing company in the dynamic digital asset industry.

Requirements

• An SRE/DevOps professional with experience managing and optimising Linux systems in a high-performance 24 x 7 environment
• Cloud management using IaC, with experience in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• A background in container management, deployment, and orchestration. Kubernetes experience is good to have, strong docker skills are required
• Knowledge and experience in managing configuration at scale
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline, version control best practices
• Experience with application and infrastructure instrumentation using tools like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and eBPF
• 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 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 around system layout, rollout procedures and improving DevOps processes
• Development of internal tools and automation to accomplish the team’s 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
• Active participation in various trading and infrastructure projects
• Work closely with developers, traders and other staff to accomplish our firm’s goals

Preferred Qualifications

• This is not a network engineer role, however knowledge of networking management and routing in both a cloud and global SD-WAN environment is a plus. Understanding of transport protocols is expected
• 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
• 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

• Opportunity to work at the forefront of the digital asset industry
• Remote and flexible work
• Autonomy and a flat structure means you can contribute your ideas from day one and help shape the foundation that will power our future business