Key Facts

Remote From:

Indiana (USA)

Full time

Senior (5-10 years)

English

Hard Skills

Other Skills

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Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
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Plan Execution
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Teamwork
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Communication
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Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

5+ years in a DevOps/SRE role with direct experience in blockchain infrastructure.
Strong Linux-based systems administration experience.
Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and observability stacks (Grafana/Prometheus).
Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and cloud/IaC tooling (AWS, Google Cloud) or bare metal.

Requirements:

Ensure 99.99% uptime for critical blockchain infrastructure and respond to incidents promptly.
Develop and maintain open-source tools to manage Cardano and Midnight infrastructure across multi-cloud and bare-metal environments (AWS, Google Cloud, and bare metal).
Troubleshoot issues during testing and deployment to identify and resolve protocol-level bottlenecks before mainnet upgrades.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and participate in on-call incident response to ensure a secure software development life cycle.

Input Output (IOHK)

Information Technology & Services

About Input Output (IOHK)

Founded in 2015, IOHK is one of the world’s pre-eminent blockchain research and engineering companies, best known for the Cardano blockchain platform We are a fully decentralized, remote-working organization committed to the highest principles of academic rigour and evidence-based software development. The company builds high-assurance blockchain products for public and private sector clients. Our goal is simple – to fuel our drive to be best in class by giving you the opportunity, resources and support to deliver your finest work to date. You’ll work with some exceptionally talented and friendly individuals who are always open to new ideas and ways of working. IOHK is an advocate of decentralized remote working, with over 300 people working in more than 50 countries. Everyone has a different skill set, a different culture, and is at a different stage in their life. We aim to make collaboration between diverse people fun, exciting, and always rewarding. Many companies say they ‘think outside the box’ – for IOHK it’s more, ‘we think outside the geography’.

Company type: Scaleup

Industry: Information Technology & Services

Founded: 2018

Company size: 201 - 500

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Job description

DevOps Engineer | Midnight Foundation

Location: This is a full-time remote role for candidates based in Asia, with 1–2 hours of daily overlap required with US or EU time zones.

Schedule: Flexible (Sunday–Thursday or Tuesday–Saturday) Work Schedule

The Role

You are ready to apply best practices for monitoring, observability, security, and infrastructure automation to expand the multi-cloud and bare metal platforms powering our Cardano and Midnight deployments. The ideal candidate is passionate about blockchain, privacy, and disrupting the status quo.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Protocol Reliability: Ensure availability of our services, specifically targeting 99.99% system uptime for critical blockchain infrastructure. Response to incidents and identify potential issues in a timely manner.
Blockchain Ops: Develop and maintain open source tools to manage a Cardano and Midnight infrastructure in a multi-cloud or bare metal hybrid environment (AWS, Google Cloud, and bare metal).
Pre-Launch Defense: Actively troubleshoot issues during testing and deployment, catching and solving protocol-level bottlenecks before mainnet upgrades.
CI/CD Mastery: Build and maintain pipelines for Midnight projects using GitHub Actions and other tools to ensure a secure software development life cycle.
On-Call & Incident Response: Participate in the on-call rota, providing rapid mitigation for production system interruptions.
Scaling: Plan, coordinate, and manage the progressive transition from a foundation-coordinated federated validator model to a fully decentralized validator network.

Requirements

Experience: 5+ years in a DevOps/SRE role, with direct experience in blockchain infrastructure.
Linux Mastery: Strong experience with Linux-based systems and administration.
Orchestration: Working knowledge of container environments and Kubernetes orchestration.
Observability Stack: Proficient with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools for real-time monitoring.
Technical Scripting: Expert in shell scripting, with knowledge of systems languages, Rust, Go and Python.
Cloud & IaC: Extensive experience configuring, scaling, monitoring, and tuning services in AWS/GC.
Documentation: Proven ability to write clear operational designs and blameless post-mortems.
CI/CD: Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools, like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.

Nice to Have

Node Operations: Previous experience running and maintaining Cardano stake pools or partner chain nodes.
Advanced Ops: Experience with tools like GitOps workflows and Nix for reproducible builds.
Node Operations: Previous experience running and maintaining Cardano stake pools or partner chain nodes.
Advanced Ops: Experience with tools like GitOps workflows and Nix for reproducible builds.