[Remote] DevOps Engineer (Remote Americas)

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nansen is a leading blockchain analytics platform that empowers investors and professionals with real-time, actionable insights derived from on-chain data. They are hiring a DevOps Engineer to build and maintain systems and cloud infrastructure, focusing on secure and scalable solutions for their staking operations. The role involves collaboration with other teams to ensure reliability, performance, and security across blockchain validators and shared infrastructure services.


Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure Management: Deploy, secure, and manage validator, sentry, and RPC nodes for various PoS blockchains, ensuring high availability and scalability in both cloud and bare-metal environments. Build and operate production infrastructure and pipelines (Kubernetes clusters, etc.)
  • Automation and IaC: Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and configuration management tools. Contribute to CI/CD for apps and infrastructure.
  • Networking: Configure and manage network infrastructure, including load balancing and firewalls.
  • Monitoring and Alerting: Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting to proactively identify and address performance, health, and security issues.
  • Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotation (including weekends), troubleshoot incidents, and perform root cause analysis.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with other engineering teams and maintain detailed documentation of system configurations and procedures.

Skills

  • 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or a related role.
  • Strong Linux system administration skills.
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Terraform or similar tools for infrastructure automation.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
  • Experience managing fleets of machines with configuration management tools (e.g. Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, or Ansible).
  • Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP, HTTP/2, firewalls).
  • Experience with gRPC and load balancing.
  • Solid understanding of security best practices for Linux systems and networks.
  • Knowledge of cryptography, experience with HSMs and key management solutions.
  • Prior experience in staking or running blockchain infrastructure at scale, including validator key management.
  • Familiarity with major staking protocols (Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Aptos..etc).
  • Understanding of staking protocols and blockchain consensus mechanisms.
  • Python or Go experience for tooling.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and generous equity.
  • Remote work environment with a flexible schedule.
  • A team that values learning and is willing to test and adopt innovative solutions (especially AI)
  • A company culture that values speed, ownership, curiosity, simplicity, transparency and courage.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth as the company scales
  • Exposure to a global network of industry experts, partners and influencers.

Company Overview

  • Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform for crypto professionals and investors. It is a sub-organization of Nansen. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, SGP, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is

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