Talos: Institutional Fabric for Digital Asset Markets

Founded in 2018 Talos provides institutional-grade trading technology for the global digital asset market powering many of the major players in the crypto ecosystem. Our mission is clear: to advance the mass adoption of digital assets by seamlessly connecting institutions to the digital asset ecosystem. We are committed to building the most innovative and trusted platform in the world supporting the entire trading lifecycle.

At Talos youll find an environment that champions kindness and respect values diverse perspectives and upholds inclusivity at every turn. We believe every member of our team brings invaluable insights and abilities that drive Talos our pursuit of excellence we foster a culture of trust integrity collaboration and mutual growth.

We are a tight-knit yet globally distributed team of highly experienced engineers and business leaders with hubs in New York London Singapore and Cyprus. Youll be part of a hybrid-friendly environment where your unique talents and insights will play a crucial role in building something extraordinary.

Profile

At Talos our Infrastructure Engineers are responsible for the hardware and software systems that underpin the secure efficient and reliable operation of our products. We run a bare-metal global infrastructure footprint with datacenters in Paris NYC and Dallas and partner closely with engineering teams to keep our environments performant scalable and resilient.

This is a hands-on role covering datacenter operations Linux systems Kubernetes clusters networking and CI/CD pipelines. Youll have the opportunity to work across the full stack from low-level infrastructure to developer tooling and play a critical role in ensuring our products and engineering teams run at scale.

Youll join a small highly skilled team with significant responsibility and autonomy working in an environment where infrastructure excellence directly impacts our clients and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure operations: Build maintain and troubleshoot global bare-metal infrastructure (50 servers per datacenter).

• Datacenter support: Collaborate with vendors to manage system stability tune performance troubleshoot problems and upgrade capacity.

• Kubernetes administration: Manage cluster upgrades patching testing and security hardening.

• Monitoring & incident response: Operate and improve monitoring/alerting with Prometheus Grafana and Loki; provide rapid incident response root-cause analysis and remediation.

• CI/CD support: Manage GitLab pipelines build runners and related services; step in during incidents impacting developer productivity.

• Collaboration: Partner with engineering teams on capacity planning scaling projects and infrastructure tooling.

• Automation: Use infrastructure as code (Ansible Terraform bash Python Docker) to standardize and automate system management.

• Continuous improvement: Identify gaps and opportunities to improve reliability efficiency and tooling.

• Coverage: Provide infrastructure support during EU hours contributing to 24/7 team capacity.

Qualifications & Attributes

• Hands-on with bare-metal datacenter design planning implementation and support.

• Strong background in Ubuntu Linux administration with automation using IPMI Ansible and Terraform.

• Solid understanding of IPv4/IPv6 networking VPNs (Wireguard) DNS and reverse proxies/load balancers (nginx tinyproxy APISIX) plus Cloudflare.

• Skilled in Kubernetes cluster administration including tools such as Cilium Helm ArgoCD and Kyverno.

• Experience with at least one of: Postgres HA/scale (80 DBs per DC largest >100TB) Kafka Minio or blockchain fullnodes.

• Familiarity with Prometheus Loki and Grafana for monitoring and alerting.

• Exposure to cloud computing environments (AWS GCP).

• Practical experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and build environments.

• Ability to configure and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipelines and build runners.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using bash Python and Docker.

Benefits

You will also enjoy a comprehensive array of competitive benefits regardless of your location within our warm welcoming and ambitious company culture. Our offerings include a monthly wellness credit for personal use such as gym memberships massages or even a ski pass for your next holiday. Additionally we provide paid lunches in the office monthly fitness and evening socials to foster connections with colleagues and annual offsite events to engage with the wider team.

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Talos is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Talos is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability please let us know at .

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Required Experience:

Senior IC