Job Description
Blockchain DevOps Engineer (Lead) We are seeking a highly skilled Blockchain DevOps Lead to oversee the reliability of our microservices and blockchain infrastructure. You will lead a small team to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), enhance release engineering and observability, and manage security keys/secrets. This role involves standardizing blockchain nodes and integrating them into our production systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive the reliability roadmap (SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, cost/performance optimization).
- Establish platform standards for progressive delivery, safe rollbacks, and change management.
- Expand observability (metrics/logs/tracing using OpenTelemetry) and implement actionable alerts.
- Oversee incident management (on-call rotations, root cause analysis, postmortems) to ensure continuous improvement.
- Develop policies for secret/key management (Vault/HSM/KMS) and infrastructure hardening.
- Standardize blockchain node/RPC operations (setup, upgrades, failover) and integrate them into service workflows.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop the team while collaborating with backend, infrastructure, security, and product teams.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, including 2+ years managing blockchain or mission-critical infrastructure.
- Leadership experience managing 3-5 engineers.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, automation frameworks (Terraform/Helm/Ansible), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven track record of delivering production-level reliability for large-scale microservices.
- Hands-on experience with blockchain nodes (Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, or similar).
- Strong foundation in observability, incident response, and system hardening.
- Excellent communication skills; English proficiency preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to balance hands-on engineering with team leadership and strategic planning.
Benefits
- Annual leave
- Health check-ups
- Performance bonuses
- Remote work flexibility
