Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Role

• We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale, secure, and automate the infrastructure that powers Quidax.
• You’ll be part of the team ensuring that millions of dollars in crypto transactions happen seamlessly, every single day.
• You’ll work closely with our engineers to deploy services faster, safer, and smarter.
• This role is for someone who’s obsessed with reliability, loves automation, and gets a kick out of making systems run smoother than yesterday.
• If you can think creatively, bring fresh ideas to the table, and thrive in fast-moving, high-stakes environments, this is your kind of challenge.

What You’ll Be Owning

Infrastructure & Reliability:

• Manage and improve cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar).
• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and secure services that support millions of transactions.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize for speed and reliability.
• Manage database clusters (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch) for performance and resilience.

Automation & CI/CD:

• Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines (Github Action, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar).
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Build deployment automation that minimizes downtime and reduces human error.
• Automate environment setup, testing, and release workflows.

Security & Observability:

• Ensure systems are safe, patched, and secure against cyber threats.
• Implement monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.
• Collaborate with the Security and Compliance teams on audits and best practices.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:

• Partner with Backend, Frontend, and Product teams to deliver scalable, production-ready systems.
• Participate in architecture discussions and release planning.
• Support your teammates with reviews, documentation, and knowledge-sharing.
• Contribute to team processes, retrospectives, and roadmap discussions.

Biggest Challenges You’ll Tackle:

• Keeping up with product speed while ensuring infra stability and uptime as well as incident ownership.
• Balancing automation with control, fewer manual steps, fewer mistakes.
• Managing infrastructure for both fiat and crypto systems in a single ecosystem.
• Supporting rapid scale while maintaining cost efficiency.

What We’re Looking For

Must-haves:

• 6 years of DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure experience.
• Proficiency with AWS (or equivalent cloud provider).
• Strong understanding of Linux-based systems and networking.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Solid scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of database management (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch).
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across systems and applications.
• A passion for clean, reliable, and scalable infrastructure.

Nice-to-haves:

• Crypto or fintech experience.
• Familiarity with blockchain node infrastructure.
• Experience implementing observability systems (Grafana Stack, Datadog, etc).
• Understanding of zero-downtime deployments and blue-green rollouts.
• Familiarity with Java Springboot Framework, Typescript, Ruby on Rails.

Reporting Line:

• You’ll report to the Engineering Manager (DevOps) and work closely with the Backend, Product, and Security teams to ensure a smooth and secure deployment experience across all Quidax services.