Startup Talents - Senior Devops Engineer (Remote - EU)

Client: Startup Talents

Location: London, LND, gb

Contract: Contract

Job Description

This is a remote position for a Senior DevOps Engineer based anywhere in Europe. The employer develops a breakthrough high-performance on-chain exchange that delivers institutional-grade execution with superior speed, security, and reliability. Their decentralized exchange operates as the world’s first trading-specific Based Rollup on Ethereum, achieving true decentralization. The company looks to build and maintain infrastructure that powers their DeX and Network, ensuring systems are secure, scalable, and highly available.

You will thrive in a small, highly skilled team, automating tasks and creating scalable, self-healing systems. You’ll also embrace end-to-end ownership of systems, from design and monitoring to incident response.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles in high-availability, mission-critical systems, with prior Web3 and trading experience
• 6+ years of experience with major cloud platforms (AWS and GCP)
• Experience supporting low-latency trading systems or other real-time financial applications
• Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, node operations, and Web3 tooling
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)
• Expertise with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster tuning for high performance (e.g., custom schedulers, CNI tuning)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry)
• Hands-on experience with secrets management and security best practices (HashiCorp Vault, KMS, IAM policies)
• Proven ability to manage and tune production infrastructure supporting latency-sensitive workloads
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a focus on reliability and continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience supporting low-latency trading systems or other real-time financial applications
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
• Knowledge of zero-downtime deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster tuning for high performance (e.g., custom schedulers, CNI tuning)
• Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure, node operations, and Web3 tooling
• Understanding of financial systems, derivatives trading, and risk controls

Additional Information

Benefits: Remote - Anywhere in Europe.

Perks: Flexible PTO, Health Insurance, coverage for major industry conferences and events, remote-first environment, equity provided in the form of tokens on top of salary.

Interview Process:
Hiring Manager Interview, Technical Interview, Founder / CEO Interview.