Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

Founded in 2018, the company builds institutional digital asset infrastructure focused on custody, collateral management, and prime services.

Department/Team Purpose

The Engineering department is the backbone of the company, building and securing infrastructure that safeguards billions of dollars in digital assets. We operate at the intersection of traditional institutional finance and decentralized blockchain technology.

Role Purpose

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps engineer to enable fast, reliable, and secure delivery of our systems, continuously improving how our infrastructure is built and operated, including blockchain environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a fault‑tolerant, geographically distributed infrastructure supporting multiple data centres with replication, sharding, auto‑balancing and failover.
• Deploy services with strict availability requirements on a large‑scale environment and collaborate with other engineers to meet current and future demand.
• Develop and maintain code for automated infrastructure management using Ansible and Terraform.
• Collaborate with Backend Engineering to increase resilience through systems and application metrics.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to provide new integration vectors and maintain infrastructure for its own fleet of blockchain nodes (>25 layer 1 protocols currently).
• Provide on‑call support to ensure 24/7 availability of all systems.

Essential Skills and Experience

• 5+ years as a DevOps Engineer operating production‑grade infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience running and maintaining blockchain infrastructure (node deployment, syncing, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automated environment provisioning.
• Strong experience with containerisation and Kubernetes, including production operations, 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 (bash, Python, Go).
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and production environments.
• Strong problem‑solving and communication abilities.

Desirable Skills and Experience

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

Benefits

• Paid Time Off – a minimum of 35 days per year, inclusive of annual leave and public holidays plus an additional day per year of service.
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance – covering dental, optical, audiology and mental health.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced Pension Contributions – including employer matching.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

Equal Opportunity

*the company 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. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. So, bring us your experience, perspectives, and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure the company is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. the company is a Disability Confident Employer. Please let us know if you have a disability. If you require assistance during the recruitment process, we will gladly provide it.*