Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer (Blockchain) to $9000

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Team Lead who will drive our infrastructure strategy, ensure delivery excellence, and mentor a distributed team of DevOps engineers. The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical expertise with strong leadership and communication skills.
Our platform is a secure, scalable cryptocurrency payment gateway designed to facilitate seamless cryptocurrency deposits, conversions, and fiat withdrawals. It provides a user-friendly and efficient experience for both individual users and businesses, ensuring smooth and transparent transactions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional DevOps or infrastructure experience, including leadership or mentorship roles.
• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred) and familiarity with others.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Proven production-grade Kubernetes experience: cluster provisioning (EKS, GKE, AKS), Helm charts, Operators.
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI (preferred), Argo CD, or similar tools.
• Proficiency in scripting languages for automation and custom tooling.
• Knowledge of secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault).
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, CDN integration, and network security concepts.
• Experience designing storage strategies (block/object), backup, restore, and Disaster Recovery planning.
• Hands-on experience deploying and scaling relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
• Familiarity with cache systems (Redis, Memcached) and message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Ability to intervene in operational matters and assist the team directly when necessary.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, reliability, and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Capability to identify risks early, communicate options clearly, and drive timely mitigation.
• Be on time, prepared, and reliable for meetings, handoffs, and releases.
• English skills at least Upper-intermediate.

Would be a plus

• Hands-on experience with Web3/Blockchain projects and related infrastructure
• Experience with enclaves and secure environments (SGX, Nitro Enclaves or similar)
• Strong consultative skills: ability to translate client business goals into technical requirements and actionable roadmaps.
• Comfort working with multiple concurrent client projects, balancing competing priorities, and triaging incidents.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication: present technical solutions, write clear documentation, and lead regular status meetings with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Passion for upskilling team members: conduct workshops on new tools (e.g., migrating on-premise workloads to Kubernetes) or share best practices for secure coding and infrastructure hardening.
• Understanding of more complex blockchain-related terms and concepts (rollups, smart-contracts, consensus, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain a unified DevOps roadmap aligned with both company standards and client business objectives.
• Continuously evaluate new tools, platforms, and best practices to improve delivery speed, reliability, and security.
• Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines for diverse technology stacks (microservices, monoliths, serverless).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules (Terraform, CloudFormation) for reproducible environments.
• Oversee container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm) and related tooling (Helm, Istio, Argo CD).
• Define and enforce network, storage, and compute configurations to meet scalability and high-availability requirements.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Supervise and mentor a distributed DevOps team, guiding them through technical challenges.
• Establish best practices for peer reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
• Coordinate with project managers, QA, security, and development leads to ensure cross-functional alignment.