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Senior DevOps Engineer, Blockchain Services

Flipside

Web3

51-200

MA

About the job

Overview:

Company Overview:
Flipside is a commercialization engine that fuels blockchain growth by activating over 110,000 analysts to produce insights, drive narratives, and build strong, active communities. This helps support token prices and chain growth. The company offers best-in-class data for free and has been working with prominent blockchain networks like Solana, Near, Flow, Avalanche, SEI, Aptos, and others since its founding in 2017. Flipside is backed by leading investors such as Republic Capital, True Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Collab Currency, and others.
Job Duties:

Plan, test, implement, and manage scalable, maintainable, secure, and stable deployments.
Perform deep dives on node software and setup processes for new blockchain networks.
Automate blockchain software build, install, and management processes.
Debug complex distributed blockchains for smooth operations.
Manage and monitor bare metal servers and virtual machines across multiple data centers.
Administer and secure Linux servers, including intrusion detection and vulnerability scanning.
Utilize Ansible workflows for server and virtual machine management.
Participate in on-call rotations for critical service monitoring and response.
Manage communications with internal and external stakeholders.
Develop custom monitoring tools for infrastructure reporting.

Minimum Qualifications:

Extensive experience with Ansible, including designing complex inventories, writing custom roles, ensuring idempotency, and following best practices.
Deep understanding of networking and security best practices.
Proficiency in system administration scripting languages such as Bash and Python.
At least 4 years of experience with Linux systems and networking.
Experience with Proxmox, Kubernetes, and building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with environments governed by SLAs/SLOs, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge or experience with Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanisms.
Experience running applications on Kubernetes.
Experience creating CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
Familiarity with Hashicorp Vault or other secure storage tools.