DevOps Engineer Full Time (Remote)

MakerDAO is an Ethereum-based protocol that issues the DAI stablecoin and facilitates collateral-backed loans without an intermediary. Its widespread use and DeFi integration make MakerDAO one of the most operational protocols in the crypto ecosystem.

Distributed Teams

We form our teams around the availability of talent into co-located or distributed agile teams. On the TechOps side you will work together with our DevOps engineering team across the world, to make sure we have best-of-breed tools, practices, and processes with a strong focus on automating everywhere it makes sense.

To get additional coverage we are looking for three additions to the team. One of them will be located in the Asia-Pacific time zone, one in Europe and the other in the US time zone. This is a completely remote position. The responsibilities sometimes require working evenings and weekends, sometimes with little advance notice. No regular travel is required but the budget for conferences and training is in place.

Responsibilities

• Manage virtual network infrastructure through our cloud providers such as AWS, including DNS/domain management, firewall and load balancing services.
• Manage virtual servers running a variety of services, including web & database servers, Ethereum nodes, team collaboration services, and more.
• Schedule and execute OS and service patches and upgrades, keeping our infrastructure up-to-date and protected against security vulnerabilities.
• Infrastructure automation. Design, set up, and maintain Infrastructure as Code, providing automated provisioning and orchestration of internal Maker services using Terraform, Docker, and similar technologies.
• Operate the internal support desk for these services within the Maker community. Investigate and troubleshoot issues and clearly communicate incident reports.
• Select, secure, and manage administrative cloud services such as Google G-Suite, etc., to support internal Maker operations. Manage user accounts within these services.
• Manage logging, monitoring, detection, and recovery infrastructure, ensuring the continued integrity, availability, and security of the Maker systems.
• Software development lifecycle support. Managing development, staging, and production environments.
• Collaborate with Maker development teams and QA engineers, supporting release pipelines with continuous integration and deployment of our platform and products. Setup and configuration of software development services such as Github, JIRA, and so on.
• Inform and implement the Maker security strategy and policies. Create a culture of awareness and support the Maker teams in creating a secure, distributed working environment.

Requirements

Experience with the following or equivalent technologies & practices is an essential part of your skill set:

• Most AWS services; other cloud providers is a plus;
• Linux system administration and shell scripting;
• Infrastructure automation and Configuration Management tools;
• Ability to design, implement, maintain and collaborate on Infrastructure as Code (Terraform);
• Deploy services to Container Clusters (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS);
• Monitoring, Observability, Debugging and Performance tuning (Prometheus, Grafana);
• On-call experience (PagerDuty);
• Basic programming (Python);
• Git/GitHub knowledge – usage and administration of multiple Organisations;
• Conceptual and implementational knowledge of CI/CD (GitHub Actions);
• Experience with disaster recovery implementation and strategies; and
• Interpersonal skills working with stakeholders at different technical levels and backgrounds

Nice to haves

• Knowledge of Web3 and a keen interest to learn more.
• Configuring and maintaining Ethereum nodes.
• Familiarity with working in a startup environment.
• Experience working with Open Source.
• Experience working and collaborating in a digital native environment (Discord, JIRA, Notion).