DevOps Engineer (Senior/Mid)

Almanak is looking for a DevOps Engineer (Senior/Mid) to join the team to build scalable infrastructure for AI Agents in DeFi.

We're a small, fast-moving AI team that builds production-grade AI Agents and ships them into the wild. If you spend your evenings optimizing Kubernetes clusters and designing cloud-native architectures while ensuring your security posture can withstand the chaos of production workloads—keep reading.

What You'll Do

• Build scalable infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native systems on Google Cloud Platform that can handle high-throughput AI agent workloads and blockchain data processing at scale.

• Orchestrate containerized workloads: Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters, implement GitOps workflows, and ensure seamless CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid agent deployment and iteration.

• Secure the stack: Implement robust cloud security practices, manage IAM policies, network security, secrets management, and ensure compliance with security best practices across all environments.

• Monitor and optimize: Set up comprehensive observability solutions, performance monitoring, and alerting systems. Identify bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization to keep costs lean while maintaining performance.

• Enable the team: Work closely with our Python engineers to streamline development workflows, automate deployments, and provide the infrastructure foundation that lets them focus on building great AI agents.

Requirements

• Cloud engineering expertise: Deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (or equivalent cloud providers). You understand compute, networking, storage, and managed services inside and out.

• Kubernetes mastery: You've designed, deployed, and maintained production Kubernetes clusters. You know the ecosystem—Helm, operators, service meshes, ingress controllers—and when to use each tool.

• Security-first mindset: Experience with cloud security best practices, zero-trust architectures, container security, secrets management, and compliance frameworks. You think about security at every layer.

• Infrastructure as Code: Proficient with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools. You believe in version-controlled, reproducible infrastructure and have battle-tested experience with it.

• Scalability focus: You've built systems that handle significant load and know how to design for horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation.

• DevOps culture: Strong CI/CD experience, monitoring and observability practices, and a collaborative approach to working with development teams.

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior experience scaling AI/ML workloads or blockchain infrastructure in production.

• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and advanced Kubernetes patterns.

• Familiarity with DeFi protocols and the unique infrastructure challenges of crypto applications. Contributions to open-source infrastructure or DevOps tooling.

Benefits

• Compensation: You’ll receive competitive compensation, consisting of either fiat/crypto remuneration and an equity package in the core Almanak holding + bonuses.

• Flexible schedule & remote work: You’ll be able to work remotely and manage your own time. We want you to work from a place that makes you the happiest and contributes to your overall well-being.

• Co-working space, gear, and education budgets: The company will invest in your comfort at work and in your personal growth.

• Impact: You’ll work with some of the smartest people in the space and play a pivotal role in influencing the way some of the most popular crypto applications are built.