Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who will help to bring infrastructure at LI.FI to the next level. You will be working closely with the development teams to implement and support their continuous integration and delivery requirements.

You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining our container-based infrastructure, to improve the availability and resilience of our services. Your expertise will be crucial in maintaining and scaling our cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.

The position will be working together with another DevOps Engineer and will report to our Backend Lead.

The current tech stack of LI.FI utilizes:

• Github, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and Terraform for our GitOps deploy chain
• MongoDB and Redis for our data
• CloudFlare for everything CDN related
• AWS to host all our infrastructure
• The Prometheus stack for monitoring

Key Tasks

• Designing, implementing and maintaining our cloud infrastructure
• Developing and maintaining automation scripts to streamline our development process and improve our software delivery pipeline
• Building dashboards and metrics to gain greater insight into infrastructure and systems
• Setting up processes and automation for monitoring, alerting, and logging across systems
• Mentoring and supporting developers on DevOps (best) practices and providing trainings to development teams 
• Ensuring compliance to our architecture, information security policies and engineering strategy by applying standard methodologies, processes and tools 
• Performing ongoing reviews for infrastructure code to identify areas of improvement
• Taking the lead in solving and preventing operational issues
• Staying updated on the newest tools and cloud services

Requirements

• Working or willingness to overlap the team core work hours (EMEA timezone)
• Interest in the blockchain space, a solid and deeper (technical) understanding is a plus
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science 
• Extensive professional experience (at least 4-5 years) in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role, with a proven track record of designing and managing complex CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based infrastructure
• Proficiency in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated services, including compute, storage, networking, and security
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
• Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid scripting (Bash) and programming skills (NodeJS or similar) for automating tasks and developing tooling
• Good knowledge with ArgoCD / GitOps
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging solutions (Prometheus, ELK, etc.) to ensure effective system performance analysis and troubleshooting
• Experience building real-world, scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructures
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proactivity, strong ability to work well within a team and to be self-guided on a day-to-day basis
• Very strong verbal and writing skills in English to allow effective communication with team members and stakeholders in meetings and documents
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps Engineer, or similar, are a plus

Culture & Perks

• Empowered teams

We take the best person with the right skills, then inspire them to use them! We trust our team and give them the space and ownership to excel and achieve

• Flexible time management

We believe work should adapt to your life, not the other way around. We only schedule a few fixed meetings every week – you're free to arrange the rest of your time as you like

• Full-time employment

If you live/relocate to Germany, you will be hired as an employee. You will be hired as an employee of record if you live outside of Germany

• Inclusive culture

It’s our priority to make our whole team feel included, appreciated and respected. Our global, culturally diverse team is our most important asset

• Remote-friendly

We're Berlin-based, with a truly global team. Remote is the new normal, and we care about our team's work-life balance

• Retreats and team building

At least once a year we invite the global team to an in-person retreat at a beautiful location (Thailand was a blast at the beginning of 2023)

About Us

LI.FI is a cross-chain liquidity aggregation protocol and is building a crucial infrastructure piece for the mass-adoption of blockchains.

Abstracting away DeFi and making it available as API and widget to the dapplication layer, empowers developers to focus on what is truly important: building value bringing, decentralized applications for the consumer. LI.FI allows limitless, cross-chain any-to-any swaps from anywhere, directly into the dapps.

We are a passionate young team on the mission to enable a fairer, more decentralized world. To do so we are building a crucial piece of cross-chain infrastructure to enable multiple blockchains to coexist and serve different needs.

Apart from the tech we care a lot about user experience and aim to make complex technologies accessible for everyone.