DevOps Engineer - Decentralized Identity Solutions

Role Overview

DevOps Engineer focused on decentralized identity solutions within the blockchain domain. You will design, implement, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, working closely with developers, architects, and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management
  • Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS or self-managed)
  • Build scalable, cost-efficient infrastructure
• CI/CD Pipelines
  • Create and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment
  • Package software in reproducible and auditable ways
• Monitoring and Logging
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging
  • Proactively troubleshoot and ensure ongoing system health
• Security and Compliance
  • Apply security best practices including secrets management and access controls
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards
  • Automate vulnerability scanning and remediation workflows
• Automation and Scripting
  • Build Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform/Terragrunt, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
  • Automate operations using Python, Bash, or Go
• Collaboration
  • Partner with development, QA, and security teams to integrate testing and compliance checks into pipelines
• Technical Expertise / Best Practices
  • Support GitOps-style delivery and strong CI/CD tool understanding
  • Work with containerization and Kubernetes tooling (including Helm)

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related roles
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and deploying/scaling/managing containerized apps
• Proven production experience on Kubernetes + AWS
• Strong CI/CD and GitOps understanding; familiarity with GitHub Actions
• Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• AWS services experience: IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, SSM, KMS, ALB, ElastiCache, Lambda, Route 53 (R53), CloudFront, etc.
• Monitoring/troubleshooting experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and network configurations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience maintaining blockchain nodes (block-producing a plus)
• Familiarity with service meshes (e.g., Istio, Ambassador, Linkerd)
• Knowledge of event-based and serverless architectures (hosted/self-hosted)
• Familiarity with hybrid or multi-cloud environments
• Secrets management tooling (e.g., Vault)
• Experience with tools like Argo CD / Flux / Tekton, Terragrunt, Podman, Earthly, Keycloak, and (ha) PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with HTTP/proxy servers (Apache/Nginx)
• Certifications: AWS (DevOps Engineer/Solutions Architect) and Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD)

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving with focus on automation and efficiency
• Excellent collaboration and communication across teams
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements
• Proactive learning and adoption of new technologies

Location / Work Model

• Anywhere in the world (global/remote-friendly).