Senior DevOps Engineer – Hex Trust

Description

ABOUT HEX TRUST

Hex Trust is Asia’s leading provider of digital asset custody solutions for Banks & Financial Institutions, using leading-edge Blockchain technology. Led by innovators from the financial services industry, Hex Trust has built a proprietary platform that delivers a new way for financial institutions, asset managers, and corporations to safely and efficiently operate in the Blockchain ecosystem. Institutional adoption of digital assets and DeFi requires a fundamental shift in the way banks and financial institutions operate. Hex Trust is the link that connects the traditional financial world to the digital assets ecosystem.

POSITION OBJECTIVE

At Hex Trust, we’re building trust In the digital ecosystem and we’d like you to help us deliver on that promise. Providing enterprise-grade custody services like ours requires an unwavering commitment to security and an understanding of the importance of maintaining a secure infrastructure. We’re a small, but growing group looking for an engineer able to help put the right tools and processes in place and help take our business to the next level!

We are looking for a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer to be responsible for managing and overseeing our microservice, containerised cloud infrastructure hosted within AWS, GCP, and on-premises. In addition, a Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for leading the team alongside other senior engineers, driving projects, supporting junior developers and managing advanced platform configuration tasks and assignments.

Duties & Responsibilities

PLATFORM & INFRASTRUCTURE

Manage advanced on-premise and cloud infrastructure:

Cloud-based Kubernetes Cluster environments and their requisite application systems and support components

On-premise Kubernetes Clusters

Additional container orchestration with Nomad

Codify all infrastructure components using IaC such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and Pulumi

Manage and monitor network latency and security across all web application platforms infrastructure

Advanced monitoring and alerting configurations using FOSS tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alert-Manager

Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers

DEVOPS: Developer Productivity and Operations

Support Dev + DevOps team with management of web application infrastructure for our various product platforms

Support GitOps model of application management and deployment: Gitlab, ArgoCD, etc

Programmatic and automated Load and Pen Testing

Creating and curating various support systems including: DB backups/restores, developer diagnostic tooling, system logging and error tracing, performance and system monitoring

TECH-SEC-OPS: Delivery Management + Security

Integration of Security / Compliance checks into Application and Infrastructure delivery pipelines – ensuring production deployments are resilient, stable, and secured

Leverage FOSS and SAAS Pen Test platforms for constant system testing

Coordinate with Security team to ensure highest standards of quality around privileged infrastructure/application access

SRE: Monitoring and Observability

Performance tune and scale web application infrastructure to handle tens of thousands of page views and transactions per day.

Explore new technologies in order to evolve both application functionality and contribute to the design of infrastructure, deployment and maintenance processes.

RESILIENCY: Resilient, Scalable Infrastructure Management

Able to configure advanced scalability models leveraging infrastructure provisioned by the platform team and monitoring components provided by SRE

Able to scale platforms based on application/container load, node load, network load, etc.

Delivering cross-regional, HA infrastructure models with global mesh

Chaos Engineering principles for testing

Requirements

Deep understanding of Kubernetes

Helm and Kustomize

Network Policy + Service Mesh

Proficiency in the following tools/frameworks/languages is highly recommended:

Golang/Python/Javascript/Typescript

Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi

Kubernetes CLI (kubectl/kubeadm)

AWS CLI

Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL),

Experience in BOTH AWS and GCP; some on-premise infrastructure management experience a plus (IBM ESXi, Proxmox, etc.)

Knowledge of Docker and multi-stage/multi-architecture builds, registries, and best image practices

Experience with GitOps development workflow and infrastructure as code (IAC) approach

Diploma/Degree in Information Technology or related disciplines

You love the console and are not afraid to read man pages

6-10 years of experience and deep knowledge of:

Linux/Unix Server System Administration

Network Administration

Network infrastructure management and maintenance experience

Hands-on experience with relational database structures: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL

Solid knowledge of standard network communication protocols such as DNS, HTTP(S), LDAP, SMTP, SNMP

Understanding and capabilities to manage, monitor, and optimise network traffic: TCP and UDP; comfortable diagnosing problems on the wire.

Benefits

WHY HEX TRUST?

Make a difference and get yourself noticed in a rapidly growing company, providing multiple opportunities for career and personal development. We are a dynamic, multi-cultural team of smart, motivated people based in brand new offices in the heart of Hong Kong’s Central business district. We’ll give you tough challenges, while offering rewarding results to match, as well as regular team and social events and flexible working arrangements when needed.

Diverse and inclusive team: A diverse and international team who come from over 15 countries with diversity of both thought and background on a mission to disrupt the digital asset industry. We support each other and take pride in our achievements. We attract talent from well known global multinational companies and institutions.

Ownership & learning-curve: Opportunity to make an active contribution to the growth story of one of the leading disruptors in the FinTech industry.

Communication: We treat our staff like owners by being open, transparent, and providing regular communication about our direction and progress. We provide regular insight into decision making, strategy, and corporate-wide objectives and key results progress so that each of our employees is aligned and empowered. And we constantly strive to improve how we can communicate more effectively.

Office: We offer both the flexibility to work remotely or to work in style and comfort from our modern office in Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore and Vietnam

Hex Trust is an equal opportunity employer devoted to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.