Devops & Infrastructure Engineer

Overview
At EMURGO, we are looking for a Devops and infrastructure engineer that will help us handle, maintain, and improve the development processes, CI/CD pipelines, manage the existing and planned infrastructure deployments, 3rd party integrations, etc.
Our main public product is Yoroi - a light wallet for Cardano. Developed in two main forms: as a browser extension and a native mobile app. It currently supports over 500k users and interacts with our backend layer distributed across the planet. It's one of the most used applications in the Cardano ecosystem and it is being actively improved and developed to add more features and more service integrations. In addition, we have many more solutions in our product pipeline.
Apart from that we are maintaining dozens of live blockchain nodes and multiple Cardano staking pools that require top availability. Additionally, Emurgo also have a number of cloud services for our own websites, private enterprise projects, web-apps, non-Cardano blockchain nodes, etc.
As part of infrastructural and integration needs for Cardano, ecosystem, we often have to deal with technologies like: Rust, Nix, Haskell etc.

Responsibilities

1. Learn, understand, and maintain the existing infrastructure of the company, including all the deployments of all the products and tools.
2. Provide top availability of all running deployments. Help to identify any weak points and any ways to improve the quality of the infrastructure and the monitoring standards.
3. Maintain and improve the pipelines and integrations related to the development processes. Integrations across used 3rd party services, CI and testing pipelines, CD integrations with the cloud deployment and app publishing platforms, etc.
4. Work with the development and QA teams to identify any existing pain-points in the current development processes, help to figure out and implement improvements.
5. Work with the technology leaders to identify any missing points in the existing monitoring and alerting functionalities, help to figure out and implement improvements.
6. Understand and comply with all operational and information security policies and manage appropriate controls.
7. Assist with audit processes like SOC 2 and remediate audit findings if any.
8. Configure, manage and monitor infrastructure components like load balancers, web application firewalls etc.
9. Configure, manage and monitor globally distributed hybrid infrastructure environment.
10. Weekend monitoring duty for the status of all running infrastructure (maybe alternating weekend shifts with another infrastructure engineer). Don’t need to be present online but the person on the active-duty shift during the weekend is expected to provide quick reaction to any raised problems or alerts.

Requirements

1. 5+ years of Infrastructure administration and/or DevOps Engineer and/or System Administration experience,
2. Production experience with multiple CI/CD solutions
3. Production experience with cloud technology providers like AWS, Azure, DO, Heroku, Google Cloud, etc.
4. Production experience with web-infrastructure and hosting providers like Netlify, Cloudflare., DNS, load-balancing, proxying, CDN, etc.
5. Extensive experience with Linux OS and bash scripting
6. Working experience with monitoring technologies.
7. Experience with container and Devops technologies, like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vagrant, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.
8. Network fundamentals. Basic understanding of computer networks and network protocols. Network architectures.
9. Database management, monitoring, debugging and understanding of CAP theorem
10. Good understanding of reliability, high availability and disaster recovery.
11. Git + GitHub and/or other git web hubs
12. Good verbal and written communication skills in English.

Bonus qualifications

1. Experience with static and dynamic code profiling.
2. Programming languages: Python, JS, Ruby, Perl, etc.
3. Package management: npm, Cargo, Nix, etc.
4. Experience handling native mobile app pipelines (CI, CD)
5. Blockchain fundamentals