Kubernetes Jobs in Web3

Location: Remote - Americas, EU or UK

About us

At Auros, we’re dedicated to advancing the cryptocurrency ecosystem through unparalleled liquidity and market-making services. We’re one of the largest participants in the market, trading across 10+ global locations, facilitating 3-4% of global daily volumes, and have connectivity to over 50 venues.

What sets us apart, though, is our culture. We believe in hiring smart people and empowering them to do their best work. From day one you’ll have the autonomy and support to really excel. Our relentless focus on delivery drives us to continuously push boundaries and achieve exceptional results, all while offering abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth in the dynamic realm of digital assets.

The Opportunity

Auros is looking for an experienced DevOps engineer who can ramp up quickly into supporting our high-performance infrastructure for trading digital assets. You’ll play a key part in building, deploying and supporting systems that execute millions of trades on CeFi and DeFi venues across the globe. You will also be responsible for implementing solutions that enhance security, resilience and performance with an operational excellence mindset within this dynamic environment.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Participate in on-call roster to support our trading operations.
• Maintain and improve our global infrastructure with high performance and reliability requirements.
• Improve and update the security infrastructure of a widely distributed company that operates in a high-risk environment.
• Engage and collaborate with other teams around system layout, rollout procedures and improving DevOps processes.
• Development of internal tools and automation to accomplish the team’s goals.
• Application tuning and troubleshooting; you will keep abreast of changes to trading system features and deployment, providing guidance to developers looking to improve their application performance or reliability.
• Active participation in various trading and infrastructure projects.
• Work closely with developers, traders and other staff to accomplish our firm’s goals.

Who you are

• An SRE/DevOps professional with experience managing and optimising Linux systems in a high-performance 24 x 7 environment.
• Cloud management using IaC, with experience in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• A background in container management, deployment, and orchestration. Kubernetes experience is good to have, strong docker skills are required.
• Knowledge and experience in managing configuration at scale.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline, version control best practices.
• Experience with application and infrastructure instrumentation using tools like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and eBPF.
• This is not a network engineer role, however knowledge of networking management and routing in both a cloud and global SD-WAN environment is a plus. Understanding of transport protocols is expected.
• While not a requirement, experience working in the cryptocurrency industry and familiarity with running blockchain RPC infrastructure is beneficial. A strong interest in cryptocurrency and finance in general is desired.
• Ideally, you’ll have experience with low-level performance tuning across physical hardware, cloud instances, and network latency. We expect some experience in at least one aspect of performance optimization.
• Coding:
• Python and bash experience is a must.
• Javascript/Typescript or Go experience are nice to have.
• This role will involve a significant amount of automation and API coding.
• Cybersecurity experience and expectations:
• Strong knowledge of cloud security and IAM policies is required.
• SIEM and threat management experience.
• Understanding of network security and application of zero-trust principles.
• Must know how to secure Mac and Linux endpoints.
• Software supply chain security knowledge and experience will be desired, along with an understanding of vulnerability and secret scanning within CI/CD pipelines.

What We Offer in Return

• Opportunity to work at the forefront of the digital asset industry.
• Remote and flexible work.
• Autonomy and a flat structure means you can contribute your ideas from day one and help shape the foundation that will power our future business.

At Auros, we value nimbleness, drive for success, owner mentality, and collaboration. Join us in shaping the future of financial services!