Upskills provides expert financial software consulting to investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific Middle East and Europe. With a strong Front to Back expertise in the cash and derivatives markets coupled by an in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies we provide smart and efficient solutions.
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps/ProdOps Lead with deep expertise in Web2.0 and Web3.0 technology to manage and optimize our cutting-edge distributed infrastructure. Risk appetite for Technology is extremely low (0 unavailability 4h RTO 0 RPO) for systems initially designed as low-volume/high amount will be transformed overtime to deal with Retail market.
The ideal candidate will blend advanced cloud engineering skills with robust security practices to setup and maintain the infrastructure-DEV QA following state of the art ITSM practices. Dev/ProdOps Lead also has responsibility over the SDLC practice including but not limited to CI/CD pipeline for both the infrastructure and Digital Asset Platform with key responsibilities given as below:
- Design implement and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure for Web3 applications integrated with API banking systems and partners systems.
- Design Software Development Life Cycle practice covering code review code scanning build and deployment.
- Document Branching strategy and Environment strategy.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines tailored for smart contract core platform and channels deployments.
- Conduct comprehensive security assessments and vulnerability analyses across blockchain infrastructure.
- Implement and maintain robust security protocols for Web3 environments.
- Create and manage containerized micro-services architectures using Kubernetes.
- Design and optimize cloud infrastructure with a focus on high availability and performance
- Support the design and implementation of the security and cyber-security measures. Act as first line of defense holistically for ICS Tech risks.
- Develop across the IT department a culture and mindset proper to effectively and collaboratively identify escalate mitigate and resolve risk conduct and compliance matters.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Develop ITSM practice including but not limited to monitoring incident management change management key management and prepare the platform for launch.
- Support the auditing and pen-testing processes.
Requirements
- Masters or Bachelors Degree preferably from Information Technology Computer Network Computer Science or relevant disciplines.
- At least 10 years of DevOps and ProdOps experience with Web3 background.
- In-depth knowledge of computer hardware software and OS (Windows and macOS).
- Hands-on experience with Linux Docker Kubernetes and cloud-native deployment practices.
- Solid understanding of microservice architecture and experience deploying and managing distributed systems.
- Experienced in design develop and deploy CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Familiarity with API gateways (e.g. Kong) message brokers (Kafka RabbitMQ) and databases (MySQL PostgreSQL).
- Expert-level knowledge of blockchain platforms (Ethereum Solana or others).
- Proficiency in container orchestration (Kubernetes Docker) IAM including user permission federation- Key Management System Message Queuing systems high availability architecture and backup/archival (read-replicas point in time recovery).
- Deep understanding of cryptography and security principles.
- Advanced skills in vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
- Experience with pentesting programs - preparation execution remediation- for Web Back-End and smart contract security auditing.
- Expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) methodologies.
Web3, Web2, IT Infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, Linux, Unix, AWS, Pentesting, IaC, Security, Blockchain
Education
Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering or related field.