DevOps Engineer - ValiDAO

Role Overview:

We are seeking a motivated and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. The right person will be responsible for maintaining, scaling, and monitoring existing infrastructure, including cloud machines, bare-metal servers, and a Kubernetes cluster, to allow ValiDAO to provide secure and reliable industry-leading Proof-of-Stake validation services.

Job Requirements

Responsibilities

• Maintain, scale, and monitor existing infrastructure, including bare metal servers, cloud machines, and a Kubernetes cluster, to allow ValiDao to provide secure and reliable industry-leading Proof-of-Stake validation services.
• Institute monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure. Enable other team members to attend to and troubleshoot problems as they arise.
• Take all steps required to ensure maximum availability and uptime of maintained blockchain networks. This includes routine and emergent application updates, monitoring of systems, timely response to alerts and on-call phone calls, as well as rapid response to mitigate site outages.
• Develop software related to blockchain data extraction or interchain communication, on an as-needed basis.
• Reason about and improve the security properties of infrastructure. Secure key management, server hardening, and intrusion detection are important themes.

What we are looking for

• Strong Linux skills, including a deep understanding of the kernel and userspace.
• Strong networking skills, including a deep understanding of routing, forwarding, and load-balancing.
• Has prior experience with a range of orchestration and configuration management tools such as Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Is able to develop tooling and monitoring solutions where none exist and can debug unreliable software - many of the projects we run are of alpha quality.
• Possesses good knowledge of security as it relates to bare metal and cloud-based infrastructure. 
• We expect candidates to know one systems scripting language such as Bash or Python
• Is able to work independently, with a high level of ambiguity and undefined requirements.
• Ideally has existing experience running blockchain nodes and a basic understanding of blockchain technology

Our Offer

• Full-Time (Remote)
• Autonomy and ownership in a friendly and supportive work environment and the opportunity for rapid growth.
• Competitive compensation (USD 60k - 120k) 
• Gather experience and build your network in the vibrant crypto ecosystem.
• Learn about state-of-the-art protocols that lay the foundation for an open, transparent, and programmable financial system.

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