Senior DevOps Engineer, Blockchain Services
Flipside
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About the Role
We are seeking a tech-savvy DevOps engineer to join our Blockchain Services team. As a member of this small, multi-functional team, you should be a self-starter, adapt quickly, and consistently deliver high-quality results.
Responsibilities
- Plan, test, implement, and manage projects to ensure scalable, maintainable, secure, and stable deployments for various use cases.
- Conduct deep dives on node software and setup processes for new blockchain networks.
- Automate blockchain software build, install, and management processes.
- Debug complex distributed blockchains to ensure smooth operations.
- Manage and monitor bare metal servers and virtual machines across multiple data centers.
- Perform Linux server administration, hardening, intrusion detection, and vulnerability scanning.
- Utilize Ansible workflows to manage and provision bare metal servers and virtual machines.
- Participate in on-call rotations for critical service monitoring and response.
- Manage communications with internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop custom monitoring tools to report infrastructure information to our observability stack.
Minimum Qualifications
- In-depth experience using Ansible (and similar tools) :
- 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
- Deep understanding of networking and security best practices
- Experience with common system administration scripting languages such as Bash and Python
- Minimum of 4 years with Linux systems and networking
- Experience with:
- Proxmox
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience working in environments governed by SLA or SLOs, including:
- Monitoring and alerting platforms
- Previous experience with on-call rotations
- Diagnosing, resolving, and escalating as part of an incident response team
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of, or experience with, Proof-of-Work and/or 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 (Ansible Tower/AWX, GitHub Actions, or similar tools)
- Experience with Hashicorp Vault or other secure storage tools
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