Senior DevOps Full Time (Remote)

Applied Blockchain is an innovative applications development company, focusing on distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. Based in London at Canary Wharf and in Batalha, Porto, Applied Blockchain is a vibrant team of ethereum blockchain developers that have been building cutting-edge solutions for disruptive startups and corporate clients. We created solutions for banking and finance, e-payments, energy trading, aviation, telecommunications and social impact sectors. We are building a new generation of decentralised applications, working through some of the most interesting problems in this field such as identity management, transactions anonymity, encryption, data security and Zero Knowledge Proofs. Our Stack is composed of NodeJS, React and Kubernetes. Our team is composed mostly of developers, we are geeks and we strive for improvement. We work using agile methodologies but we’re not too strict about them. We use mainly Ethereum as blockchain database and smart contract platform.

What you’ll be doing

• Work on a variety of projects as DevOps person
• Work on: environment maintenance, new environment provisioning and configuration
• Work on automating the provisioning of new environments or automated upgrades of the existing ones (Terraform or AWS/Azure APIs)
• Work on automating the configuration of the VMs, ensuring their security and scalability
• Work on improving the current Docker based CircleCI CI pipelines
• Work on CI/CD Slack-based build and deployment tools (Slack Bots and Slash Commands – Ruby / Python)
• Checking and improving the developers local Docker Compose based builds
• Working on setting up and automating ELK/Prometheus based monitoring stacks
• Working on the two main orchestrator platforms Applied Blockchain uses: Docker Swarm and Kubernetes

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in a commercial environment
• 1+ year experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with CI processes and tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, Gitlab, Azure Devops etc.)
• Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure tasks and application deployment issues
• Bash scripting, knowledge of the Linux Operating System
• Knowledge of the network and HTTP stack and the main web servers
• Knowledge and experience with Ruby and/or Python programming languages
• Hands-on technical experience on environment provisioning and configuration with industry standard tools (e.g.
• Terraform/Ansible/Puppetteer/Salt/Chef/etc.)
• Extensive familiarity with at least one major cloud provider (AWS and/or Azure)
• Experience with the ELK and Prometheus stacks (nice to have)
• Experience with Hashicorp Vault or other secret sharing solutions (nice to have)
• Experience with working on Nginx (nice to have)
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or another equivalent technical discipline

Benefits

• “Hybrid Flex Work” (you decide, every week, if you want to work full remote, hybrid, or physically in our office)
• Full Healthcare Insurance for you, and with the possibility of adding your partner and children.
• 1000 euros annual allowance for Training (up to 50% of this value can be used for you to buy work station equipment to work from home).
• 5 days/per year for Training.
• Physical team events/team buildings every 3 months.
• Company equipment and Onboarding kit.
• Annual Bonus (dependant on company and personal performance).
• Stock Option Plan.
• Paid subscription of a mental health support app.
• Birthday Off.
• Amazing referral programme.