Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Since being founded in 2018, Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody, collateral management, and prime services. Led by Amar Kuchinad, Copper's Global CEO, the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Copper's offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology – the gold standard in secure custody.

The Engineering department is the backbone of Copper; entrusted with the critical responsibility of building and securing the infrastructure that safeguards billions of dollars in digital assets. We operate at the intersection of traditional institutional finance and decentralized blockchain technology. Our engineering organisation brings together people with diverse backgrounds and experiences who genuinely enjoy solving hard problems. We foster a blame-free, intellectually honest environment where you're encouraged to take thoughtful risks and think big.

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps engineer at the intersection of software development and platform engineering. In this role, your focus will be enabling fast, reliable, and secure delivery of our systems, whilst continuously improving how our infrastructure is built and operated, including our blockchain environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building a fault-tolerant, geographically distributed infrastructure: support of multiple data centres, providing replication, sharding, auto balancing and failover.
• Participating in deployment of services with strict availability requirements on a large-scale environment and working together with other Engineers to ensure our systems meet current and future demand.
• Develop and maintain code for automated infrastructure management (DevOps, Infrastructure as Code) with the use of Ansible and Terraform.
• Working collaboratively with the Backend Engineering team to increase our resilience through insightful systems and application metrics.
• Improving our CI/CD pipeline to provide new integration vectors.
• On-Call support to ensure 24/7 availability of all systems.

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• 5+ year's experience as a DevOps Engineer operating production-grade infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience running and maintaining blockchain infrastructure (e.g. node deployment, syncing, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) and automated environment provisioning.
• Strong experience with containerisation and Kubernetes, including production operations and cluster management; EKS preferred.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and deployment tools such as ArgoCD.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, firewalls).
• Experience implementing and operating secure systems (IAM, secrets management, network security controls, vulnerability management).
• Proficiency with at least one development language (e.g., bash, Python, Go).
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and production environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Desirable:

• Experience working within crypto organisation.
• Experience in Financial Services.

Benefits:

• Paid Time Off - A minimum of 35 days of paid time off per year, inclusive of annual leave and public holidays.
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance - Inclusive of dental, optical, audiology, and mental health coverage, with medical history disregarded.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced Pension Contributions - Includes an enhanced employer matching contribution.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.