About the Role
Title: DevOps Engineer (Remote)
Location: PH
Category: Software Development
JobDescription:
Flipside is a commercialization engine that powers blockchain growth. We activate 100,000+ analysts to produce insights, drive narratives, and transact, building emotional connection and a strong and active community that supports token price and chain growth. We make that possible by curating best-in-class data and making that data available entirely for free. Founded in 2017, Flipside works with partners such as Solana, Near Flow, Avalanche, SEI, Aptos, Blast, Vertex, and is backed by leading investors including Republic Capital, True Ventures, Galaxy Digital, M13, and more.
We are looking for an engineer to join our Blockchain Operations teams. This is a small, multi-functional team that requires engineers comfortable working in a Linux server environment and contributing to internal applications.
**This role will be fully remote and off-shore, international candidates are also encouraged to apply!**
Responsibilities
- Help setup new Blockchain networks by:
- Doing deep dives on node software and running manual setup processes for testnets to learn the networks.
- Writing Ansible automatons for managing and scaling nodes.
- Interacting with the Blockchain organization and fellow validator operators in Discord and Slack.
- Help maintain the network and automation infrastructure:
- Use Ansible workflows to manage and provision bare metal servers and virtual machines.
- Add features and fix bugs in the core infrastructure automation such as routing and load balancing.
- Help debug networking issues.
- Join an on-call rotation that includes paging in the event that critical services go down or suffer service degradation.
- Contribute to internal applications that enable complex interactions with our Blockchain infrastructure that include:
- Integrate new networks with our wallet custody by using their API to perform the required cryptographic operations.
- Build custom monitoring to observe information from our infrastructure and report it to our observability stack.
- Work cross functionally to gather requirements and gather user feedback for applications that face other employees.
Qualifications
- Familiarity with basic Linux server administration including:
- Proficiency with command line.
- Managing headless servers via a command line interface.
- Networking fundamentals and basic practical applications.
- Familiarity with Git including branching, merging, and rebasing.
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
- Comfortable working within Proxmox virtualized environments.
- Ansible experience is highly preferred, optionally Terraform
- Expertise in designing and monitoring SLA’s for critical infrastructure tools.
- Any knowledge of blockchain infrastructure like Ethereum or Cosmos Ecosystem.