DevOps Engineer - Midnight Foundation

Headquarters: India URL: http://iohk.io

DescriptionDevOps Engineer | Midnight FoundationLocation: This is a full-time remote role for candidates based in Asia, with 1 2 hours of daily overlap required with US or EU time zones.Schedule: Flexible (Sunday Thursday or Tuesday Saturday) Work ScheduleThe RoleYou are ready to apply best practices for monitoring, observability, security, and infrastructure automation to expand the multi-cloud and bare metal platforms powering our Cardano and Midnight deployments. The ideal candidate is passionate about blockchain, privacy, and disrupting the status quo.RequirementsKey ResponsibilitiesProtocol Reliability: Ensure availability of our services, specifically targeting 99.99% system uptime for critical blockchain infrastructure. Response to incidents and identify potential issues in a timely manner.Blockchain Ops: Develop and maintain open source tools to manage a Cardano and Midnight infrastructure in a multi-cloud or bare metal hybrid environment (AWS, Google Cloud, and bare metal).Pre-Launch Defense: Actively troubleshoot issues during testing and deployment, catching and solving protocol-level bottlenecks before mainnet upgrades.CI/CD Mastery: Build and maintain pipelines for Midnight projects using GitHub Actions and other tools to ensure a secure software development life cycle.On-Call & Incident Response: Participate in the on-call rota, providing rapid mitigation for production system interruptions.Scaling: Plan, coordinate, and manage the progressive transition from a foundation-coordinated federated validator model to a fully decentralized validator network.RequirementsExperience: 5+ years in a DevOps/SRE role, with direct experience in blockchain infrastructure.Linux Mastery: Strong experience with Linux-based systems and administration.Orchestration: Working knowledge of container environments and Kubernetes orchestration.Observability Stack: Proficient with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools for real-time monitoring.Technical Scripting: Expert in shell scripting, with knowledge of systems languages, Rust, Go and Python.Cloud & IaC: Extensive experience configuring, scaling, monitoring, and tuning services in AWS/GC.Documentation: Proven ability to write clear operational designs and blameless post-mortems.CI/CD: Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools, like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.Nice to HaveNode Operations: Previous experience running and maintaining Cardano stake pools or partner chain nodes.Advanced Ops: Experience with tools like GitOps workflows and Nix for reproducible builds.Node Operations: Previous experience running and maintaining Cardano stake pools or partner chain nodes.Advanced Ops: Experience with tools like GitOps workflows and Nix for reproducible builds.

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