Position Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer specializing in web3 and blockchain application performance, you will play a crucial role in optimizing the infrastructure, deployment processes, and overall performance of our decentralized applications. You will collaborate closely with our development, operations, and blockchain teams to implement best practices, streamline workflows, and ensure the reliability and scalability of our applications.

Key Responsibilities:

- Infrastructure Optimization: Design, implement, and manage scalable infrastructure solutions to support high-performance web3 and blockchain applications.
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes, enabling rapid and reliable releases.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other issues.
- Performance Tuning: Analyze system performance metrics, conduct performance testing, and optimize configurations to improve application performance and scalability.
- Security Compliance: Work closely with the security team to ensure compliance with security best practices and standards, including encryption, access controls, and data protection.
- Capacity Planning: Collaborate with stakeholders to forecast resource requirements and plan for capacity scaling as needed to support growing user demand.
- Troubleshooting and Incident Response: Provide support for troubleshooting production issues, participate in incident response activities, and implement preventive measures to minimize downtime.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Document infrastructure configurations, deployment procedures, and best practices, and actively contribute to internal knowledge sharing initiatives.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on optimizing the performance of web3 and blockchain applications.
- Strong understanding of blockchain technology, including Ethereum, smart contracts, and decentralized applications.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and data encryption techniques.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with blockchain-specific tools and frameworks such as Truffle, Ganache, or Solidity.
- Knowledge of performance profiling tools and methodologies for optimizing blockchain applications.
- Experience with DevSecOps practices and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
- Certification in relevant cloud platforms or DevOps technologies.