Lead Infrastructure Engineer

HiresRight; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital assets exchange company is seeking a full-time Lead Infrastructure Engineer in Chicago to design and build highly resilient and secure cloud based systems. Responsibilities include implementing security controls and monitoring production infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in computer science and experience in cloud architectures. This position offers the opportunity to work in the dynamic space of digital assets, integrating with blockchain and banking systems.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design and implement highly reliable cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with security controls in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect highly resilient and scalable cloud based distributed systems.
• Implement security controls.
• Deploy and patch new infrastructure and applications.
• Monitor production infrastructure and lead production support efforts.

Skills

Designing cloud based systems

Implementing security controls

Monitoring production infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

About the job Lead Infrastructure Engineer

EDX is seeking a full-time Lead Infrastructure Engineer, responsible for implementing and maintaining the architecture of a highly available, high performance distributed system that processes trades and interacts with the blockchain and banking systems. In this position you will collaborate with stakeholders, get to know the ins and outs of the digital asset space, and get to build an entire platform from the ground up. The position will report to the Head of Engineering.

EDX is a digital assets exchange created in collaboration between US retail wealth managers and market makers for secure and compliant trading of digital assets, which is bringing best practices from existing markets to crypto (e.g., segregation of duties to reduce conflicts of interest between a market maker and an exchange) while mitigating the conflicts of interest in current digital asset markets.

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect highly resilient and scalable cloud based distributed systems
• Implement security controls
• Deploy and patch new infrastructure and applications
• Monitor production infrastructure and lead production support efforts

Experience:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field
• Designing and implementing highly reliable and secure cloud based infrastructures