Senior DevOps Engineer, New Networks

Figment • Full-time • Remote (Ireland) • 2w ago

Figment is the world’s leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. We provide the most comprehensive staking solution for our over 200+ institutional clients including exchanges, wallets, foundations, custodians, and large token holders to earn rewards on their crypto assets. These clients rely on Figment’s institutional staking service including rewards optimization, rapid API development, rewards reporting, partner integrations, governance, and slashing protection. Figment is backed by industry experts, financial institutions and our global team across twenty three countries. This all leads to our mission to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web3 ecosystem.

We are a growth stage technology company – looking for people who are builders and doers. People who are comfortable plotting their course through ambiguity and uncertainty to drive impact and who are excited to work in new ways and empower a generative company culture.

About the Role

We run 70+ blockchains here at Figment. Come help us onboard more!

This is a full-time remote position, with team members in North America and Europe.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us scale out our operations by planning and implementing projects to manage fleets of blockchain servers. This role presents unique opportunities to be involved in building out tooling where none exists in the industry. You will build production systems that need to handle newer (sometimes alpha quality) blockchain software. You’ll need to consider all aspects of security, monitoring, maintainability, and stability.

Responsibilities/Duties

Lead the planning, testing, implementation, and management of projects to deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, and stable deployments across a variety of use cases
Identify & implement solutions for common areas where automation can significantly increase our ability to manage all our infrastructure
Identify areas of systemic risk & evaluate, propose, and implement solutions
Manage and monitor cloud and physical servers across multiple global hosting services and data centres
Automate blockchain software build, install, and management processes
Perform Linux server administration, hardening, intrusion detection, and vulnerability scanning
Debug complex distributed blockchains to help run them smoothly
Identify tasks and processes that get stuck or move slowly and support the team in pushing them through
Explain broad initiatives and vision to Engineering Leadership and Product
Demonstrate technical expertise in multiple domains and act as a mentor to others on the team

Minimum Qualifications

In-depth experience using Ansible (and similar tools) in environments with over 500 servers:
- 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
In-depth experience supporting Linux servers in large, highly secure, and highly available 24/7 environments
Demonstrated experience working with blockchain nodes or very strong knowledge of the blockchain domain
Deep troubleshooting expertise of complex application flows which span multiple clusters of systems - to quickly identify server, network, and application issues; and methodical approach to implementing, testing, and measuring changes to remediate issues
Knowledge of common OS and application level settings to optimize system performance
Experience with common system administration scripting languages such as Bash and Python
In-depth experience creating well organized modules with Terraform to ensure reusable cloud provisioning automation
Deep understanding of networking and security best practices

Preferred Qualifications

Ansible role testing with Molecule (or similar tools) and Ansible module development experience
Knowledge of, or experience with, Proof-of-Work and 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 (GitHub Actions or similar tools)
Experience with Hashicorp Vault or other secure storage tools

At Figment, we believe in fostering a fun and professional work environment where our employees can thrive and grow. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for career advancement. If you have a passion for blockchain technology and are ready to take your career to the next level, apply now!

Figment is a remote-first company operating with a global footprint across 12 countries. Are you interested in helping us build the future of digital assets?