At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of cutting-edge infrastructure for digital asset payments.
- Company: Join a fast-growing digital asset firm with an engineering-led culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary up to £150k, equity, and flexible hybrid working.
- Other info: Opportunity to build a team and grow within a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Own critical infrastructure and shape the future of digital payments.
- Qualifications: 5-10 years in production infrastructure with strong Kubernetes and Linux skills.
The predicted salary is between 150000 - 150000 £ per year.
TechShack is working with a well-backed digital asset firm building the next era of payments – software that gives businesses a single, real-time view across digital-asset and traditional fiat balances, with reconciliation, controls and dashboards spanning digital asset and fiat rails. They're scaling fast, and they run a genuinely engineering-led culture with infrastructure and engineering at the helm. This will be a lead hire with potential reports in the future. They want a senior engineer who can be trusted to own a core part of the infra stack outright – and then build a small team underneath them as the platform grows.
What you'll own:
- Production Kubernetes across bare-metal and AWS: clusters, upgrades, security and performance.
- The bare-metal and Linux server fleet: provisioning, tuning and hardware-level reliability.
- Monitoring, logging, alerting and full-stack observability that engineers actually trust.
- Fast, reproducible, safe CI/CD: canaries, progressive rollouts, clean rollbacks.
- Networking and edge: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing and Cloudflare (caching, routing, edge security).
- Resilience and recovery: defining SLOs/SLIs, leading incidents and postmortems, and designing out single points of failure.
Who we're looking for:
- 5 to 10 years operating production infrastructure at a senior level.
- Deep, hands-on Kubernetes (internals, networking, storage, security) alongside real bare-metal and AWS experience.
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, and the instinct to debug across the entire stack.
- Infrastructure-as-code and automation, observability tooling, reliable CI/CD and CDN/edge (Cloudflare) optimisation.
- Calm and methodical in incidents; you assume things fail and build accordingly; you favour long-term stability over quick fixes.
- Web3 / crypto experience is a bonus, not a must; genuine interest is enough.
- Multi-cluster / multi-region, high-throughput or data-heavy systems, Elasticsearch, service meshes, capacity planning / cost optimisation, and regulated or reliability-focused environments.
Location: Hybrid in central London, flexible on days and times. Open to a few other core EU cities.
Compensation: Basic up to £150k + equity.
Lead DevOps Engineer - Digital Assets in London employer: TechShack
TechShack is an exceptional employer for those seeking to make a significant impact in the rapidly evolving digital asset space. With a strong engineering-led culture, employees benefit from a collaborative environment that prioritises innovation and personal growth, alongside competitive compensation and equity options. The hybrid work model in central London, with flexibility for other core EU cities, further enhances work-life balance, making it an attractive opportunity for senior engineers looking to lead and shape the future of payments.
