DevOps Engineer

Since being founded in 2018 Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody collateral management and prime services.

Led by Amar Kuchinad Coppers Global CEO the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Coppers offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology the gold standard in secure custody. Coppers multi-award winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralised exchanges DeFi applications and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody.

Built on top of this state-of-the-art custody ClearLoop is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering connecting global exchanges and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPC-secured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures ClearLoop is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital.

In addition to industry-leading security certifications Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A rated insurer positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets.

Department environment

Our engineering team has remained at the forefront of blockchain technology setting standards for the cryptocurrency infrastructure globally since the firms inception in 2018. Were now looking to expand the team with exceptional individuals who will help us further accelerate the crypto ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities of the role

• Assist in maintaining a reliable distributed infrastructure across multiple data centres supporting replication load balancing and failover mechanisms.
• Support the deployment and operation of services with high availability requirements in a large-scale environment.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Collaborate with the Backend Engineering team to enhance system resilience through monitoring and metrics.
• Help improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support integration and deployment workflows.
• Participate in the setup and maintenance of infrastructure for blockchain nodes across various protocols.

Your experience skills and knowledge

• 23 years of experience in a DevOps or related engineering role working with production infrastructure.
• Familiarity with modern web application architecture and CI/CD processes.
• Basic understanding of network security principles and tools.
• Hands-on experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker) and virtualisation technologies.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or similar.
• Experience working with at least one cloud platform (AWS Azure or GCP).
• Proficiency in scripting with Bash Python or Go.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Our core tech tools and languages

• Architecture: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Cloud: AWS
• CI/CD: Jenkins GoCD
• Orchestration: Docker Docker compose Kubernetes
• Interservice communication: Rest Rabbit MQ HTTP
• Databases: PostgreSQL MongoDB Clickhouse
• Monitoring: Prometheus Grafana
• Logging: ELK stack

The benefits offered

• Paid Time Off - A minimum of 35 days of paid time off per year inclusive of annual leave and public holidays. Employees also receive one additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance - Inclusive of dental optical audiology and mental health coverage with medical history disregarded
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Pension Contributions - Includes an enhanced employer matching contribution
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

In return for everything you can bring to Copper we can offer you an exciting challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business with career opportunities and welcoming working environment.

If you think you have everything were looking for and more then wed love you to apply for the opportunity.

Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are the better our work will be. So bring us your experience perspectives and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer please let us know if you have a disability. If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.