Overview
Join BitMEX, the world's leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, as a Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in network operations. This role is pivotal in managing and supporting the infrastructure that drives our platform, focusing on network performance to support our low-latency, high-throughput trading exchange.
Key Responsibilities
- Continuously improve the resiliency, throughput, and latency profiles of our trading systems by working closely with our trading technology teams.
- Manage and support our AWS cloud infrastructure, including EC2 instances and physical servers.
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistency across our infrastructure.
- Ensure security hardening of our OS builds and configurations.
- Manage and maintain configuration management tooling to ensure consistency.
- Integrate our stack with Kubernetes.
- Ensure SRE best practices for design and operation of the stack.
- Design, implement, and test disaster recovery capabilities to ensure our business can continue to operate in the event of a technology failure.
- Participate in an on-call rota for escalations.
Qualifications
- Theoretical and practical networking knowledge, including unicast and multicast routing protocols, Linux kernel’s TCP stack implementation, congestion avoidance/control (e.g. BBR), traffic control, network simulation, AWS VPC / TGW & Kubernetes VPC CNI, DPDK experience being a plus.
- Professional experience with kernel troubleshooting: strace, bpftrace, perf profiling/tracing, navigating / reading / building the relevant kernel code.
- Professional experience with userland monitoring (e.g. Thanos/Prometheus/AlertManaging), logging (e.g. Splunk/Loki), alerting, troubleshooting, profiling/tracing, etc.
- Strong practical AWS knowledge, with min. 5 years of SRE / DevOps experience supporting and managing Linux based systems.
- Computer science, or engineering, degree preferred - strong understanding of fundamental Computer Science principles is required.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes / Ansible / Chef, and with one or more programming language: Python, Golang, C, NodeJS.
About BitMEX
BitMEX is the world’s leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, which has pioneered cryptocurrency trading through relentless commitment to change, and continues to set benchmarks for innovation, liquidity, and security today. As the world's most advanced peer-to-peer crypto-products trading platform and API, BitMEX gives knowledge, confidence, and precision to hundreds of thousands of traders, transacting billions of USD a day.
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