Senior DevOps Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced and highly enthusiastic Senior DevOps Engineer to join the team. At Horizen Labs, our DevOps Engineers are responsible for building and maintaining automation, orchestration, installation, and configuration procedures, tailored for several Public Cloud platforms, as well as for dedicated servers. Moreover, they work hand-in-hand with our Software Engineers to architect and construct streamlined software development pipelines and environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable automation and orchestration pipelines to ensure systems are robust and maintainable.
• Design and maintain internal tools for the team.
• Build and update installation and configuration procedures for all our Providers.
• Manage and deploy Infrastructure through Terraform, Ansible, shell scripts, Github Actions and Travis-CI.
• Secure and protect production environments and secrets against attacks in the challenging Blockchain space.
• Create and maintain documentation for infrastructure, configurations, and processes.
• Collaborate with Software Engineers to design and construct efficient software development pipelines and environments.
• Conduct research, test and apply new techniques and tools that improve the DevOps process and performance.
• Cost monitoring and infrastructure optimization.

Qualifications and Experience

• 3+ years of practical experience as DevOps, ideally combined with previous experience as Backend Developer.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools like Terraform and Ansible for orchestration/configuration management.
• Experience working with:
• Linux/Unix System Administration (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine).
• Intermediate knowledge of a scripting language like Bash or Python.
• Software Version Control tools like GIT, GitHub, Subversion (SVN).
• Creating customized Dockerfiles following Docker best practices.
• Cloud providers, preferably AWS.
• Familiarity with DevOps Methodologies with a focus on CI (Continuous Integration), CD (Continuous Delivery) and IaC (Infrastructure as Code).
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.
• You are passionate about the promise of blockchain technology.
• You aren’t afraid of working in a fast-paced environment, understanding when to ask for help or when to pull up your sleeves to get stuff done.
• Self-motivated and results-oriented.

Nice to have

• Experience bringing large-scale projects to production and maintaining high-quality of service.
• Experience working in Agile teams.
• Knowledge of blockchain architecture and internals. 

In compliance with New York City's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position should the applicant be based in NYC is USD 170,000 to USD 200,000. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position should it be based in NYC. Our salary ranges are determined by numerous factors, including, but not limited to, role, level, experience, and location.