DevOps Engineer - Midnight Foundation at IO Global

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong S.A.R. -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

29 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

31 Mar, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

DevOps, Blockchain, Linux, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Shell Scripting, Rust, Go, Python, AWS, Google Cloud, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Incident Response, Observability

Industry

Software Development

Description

DevOps Engineer | Midnight Foundation Location: This is a full-time remote role for candidates based in Asia, with 1–2 hours of daily overlap required with US or EU time zones. Schedule: Flexible (Sunday–Thursday or Tuesday–Saturday) Work Schedule The Role You are ready to apply best practices for monitoring, observability, security, and infrastructure automation to expand the multi-cloud and bare metal platforms powering our Cardano and Midnight deployments. The ideal candidate is passionate about blockchain, privacy, and disrupting the status quo. Key Responsibilities Protocol Reliability: Ensure availability of our services, specifically targeting 99.99% system uptime for critical blockchain infrastructure. Response to incidents and identify potential issues in a timely manner. Blockchain Ops: Develop and maintain open source tools to manage a Cardano and Midnight infrastructure in a multi-cloud or bare metal hybrid environment (AWS, Google Cloud, and bare metal). Pre-Launch Defense: Actively troubleshoot issues during testing and deployment, catching and solving protocol-level bottlenecks before mainnet upgrades. CI/CD Mastery: Build and maintain pipelines for Midnight projects using GitHub Actions and other tools to ensure a secure software development life cycle. On-Call & Incident Response: Participate in the on-call rota, providing rapid mitigation for production system interruptions. Scaling: Plan, coordinate, and manage the progressive transition from a foundation-coordinated federated validator model to a fully decentralized validator network. Requirements Experience: 5+ years in a DevOps/SRE role, with direct experience in blockchain infrastructure. Linux Mastery: Strong experience with Linux-based systems and administration. Orchestration: Working knowledge of container environments and Kubernetes orchestration. Observability Stack: Proficient with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools for real-time monitoring. Technical Scripting: Expert in shell scripting, with knowledge of systems languages, Rust, Go and Python. Cloud & IaC: Extensive experience configuring, scaling, monitoring, and tuning services in AWS/GC. Documentation: Proven ability to write clear operational designs and blameless post-mortems. CI/CD: Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools, like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc. Nice to Have Node Operations: Previous experience running and maintaining Cardano stake pools or partner chain nodes. Advanced Ops: Experience with tools like GitOps workflows and Nix for reproducible builds. Node Operations: Previous experience running and maintaining Cardano stake pools or partner chain nodes. Advanced Ops: Experience with tools like GitOps workflows and Nix for reproducible builds.

Responsibilities

Ensure the availability of services targeting 99.99% system uptime for critical blockchain infrastructure and actively troubleshoot issues during testing and deployment. Develop and maintain open source tools for managing multi-cloud and bare metal infrastructure.