Senior DevOps Engineer

MLabs
Municipality of Madrid, Spain
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Remote
Municipality of Madrid, Spain

Tech stack

Algorithmic Trading
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Github
Identity and Access Management
Python
Network Segmentation
Performance Tuning
Blockchain
Prometheus
Data Logging
Pulumi
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Istio
System Availability
Grafana
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Backend
Cloudformation
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Hashicorp
Web3.js
Front End Software Development
Terraform
Docker

Job description

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect and scale the mission-critical infrastructure powering a next-generation decentralized exchange (DEX) and network. In this role, you will be the guardian of our system's security, scalability, and high availability, ensuring our engineering team can ship rapidly without compromising reliability.

We are a dynamic, forward-thinking, and fully remote team with an ambitious roadmap. This is an opportunity for a reliability-focused engineer who loves automation, security, and performance tuning for high-throughput, low-latency environments. If you thrive on building self-healing systems and are excited by the challenge of shaping the future of finance, we want to hear from you., * Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation to support latency-sensitive trading systems.

  • CI/CD Excellence: Own and optimize pipelines for backend, frontend, and smart contract codebases (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.), ensuring fast and observable deployments.
  • Reliability & Observability: Define SLO/SLIs and implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Security & Hardening: Implement network segmentation, secret management (Vault/KMS), and runtime hardening to protect against evolving threats.
  • Performance Tuning: Optimize autoscaling and network configurations for high-throughput workloads.
  • Incident Management: Establish disaster recovery plans, lead post-mortems, and proactively address root causes to minimize toil.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure roles supporting mission-critical, high-availability systems.
  • 6+ years of deep experience with AWS or GCP.
  • Expertise in IaC & Orchestration: Advanced proficiency in Terraform/Pulumi and hands-on experience managing Kubernetes and Docker at scale.
  • Security-First Mindset: Practical experience with IAM policies, HashiCorp Vault, and infrastructure security best practices.
  • Scripting Mastery: Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation.
  • Analytical Approach: Experience tuning production environments for latency-sensitive or financial workloads., * Experience supporting low-latency trading systems or real-time financial applications.
  • Familiarity with Blockchain infrastructure, node operations, and Web3 tooling.
  • Knowledge of Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and zero-downtime deployment strategies (Canary/Blue-Green).
  • Advanced Kubernetes tuning (Custom schedulers or CNI tuning).
  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Benefits & conditions

  • Remote-First Environment: Work from anywhere in the world with a high-trust, results-oriented team.
  • Competitive Compensation: A strong base salary and a comprehensive benefits package.
  • Token Equity: Unique upside through token grants on a sliding scale (customizable balance between salary and equity).
  • Technical Ownership: Lead the infrastructure strategy for a high-growth DeFi protocol.
  • Cutting-Edge Stack: Work with the latest in cloud-native, observability, and blockchain technologies.

About the company

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