Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Posted Today by Himalayas

Negotiable
Outside
Remote
Remote

Summary: The Senior DevOps Engineer role at Biconomy involves owning the cloud and blockchain infrastructure for their cross-chain protocol stack. The position requires designing, implementing, and maintaining backend systems that support decentralized networks and scalable compute infrastructure. This is a 6-month full-time contract role with potential for extension, emphasizing resilience and automation in multi-cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provision, monitor, and optimize globally distributed validator nodes and bundlers.
  • Setup and manage EVM-compatible L1 and L2 full nodes and indexers with high uptime.
  • Build automated pipelines for deployments, monitoring, scaling, and recovery across multi-cloud environments.
  • Architect resilient, secure, and geo-redundant systems with minimal latency across a multi-region setup.
  • Design and deploy scalable cloud infrastructure using platforms like GCP, AWS, or Digital Ocean.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines and automation tools for infrastructure provisioning, code deployment, and system monitoring.
  • Participate in system design and architecture reviews with a focus on performance, reliability, and fault tolerance.
  • Proactively detect, diagnose, and resolve infrastructure issues, implementing automation to prevent recurrence.
  • Collaborate closely with protocol, backend, and product teams to ensure infrastructure supports core product requirements.
  • Lead performance tuning, system hardening, and capacity planning efforts.
  • Maintain security best practices and ensure disaster recovery and failover mechanisms are in place.
  • Own uptime, monitoring, and availability SLAs for mission-critical systems.

Key Skills:

  • 4+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud providers (GCP, AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker).
  • Proficient in at least one scripting language: Python, Go, Bash, or JavaScript.
  • Hands-on experience setting up, maintaining, and optimizing EVM-compatible blockchain nodes.
  • Deep understanding of system monitoring using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Cloudwatch, etc.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi) and automation of deployments.
  • Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, including networking and storage.
  • Understanding of security principles, infrastructure hardening, and access controls.
  • Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure or validator networks.
  • Collaborative and proactive mindset; ability to work independently in a fast-moving, globally distributed team.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT