DevOps Engineer - Midnight Foundation

Headquarters:

India URL: http://iohk.io Description DevOps Engineer | Midnight Foundation Location:

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 Schedule The Role You 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.

Requirements Key Responsibilities Protocol 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.

Requirements Experience: 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 Have 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. 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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