Lead DevOps Engineer (Blockchain)
Vacancy Description
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.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation
Social package (24 working days of annual leave and 5 paid sick days)
Flexible working hours
Challenging projects in diverse business domains and a variety of tech stacks
Personal development and professional growth opportunities
Work with talented, ambitious and family-feel team
Educational possibilities: corporate courses, knowledge hubs, and in-house English classes
Compensation for your professional certification & support for your learning activities
Opportunity to choose IT equipment you like
Corporate social responsibility
Would you like to join us?
Please send your resume for our review, and we will be in touch with you soon.