Senior DevOps Engineer

aurosglobal; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed team across time zones

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive compensation

Job summary

aurosglobal is seeking a senior hands‑on DevOps/SRE to keep latency‑sensitive trading infrastructure fast, reliable, and secure around the clock. You will harden production systems, automate tasks, and manage incident response in a globally distributed environment.

You will work with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana to improve performance, toil reduction, and IAM/security practices, with a daytime on‑call rotation and strong collaboration with trading and security teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps or SRE roles for high‑performance systems.
• Strong Linux administration and proven experience operating AWS at scale.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Solid scripting and automation in Python and Bash; Go/JavaScript familiarity welcome.
• Hands‑on experience with Prometheus, Grafana and live incident response.
• Working knowledge of Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Understanding of performance engineering across system and network layers, including tuning and capacity planning.
• Familiarity with IAM and SIEM tooling.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and harden production trading infrastructure, diagnosing bottlenecks across compute, network, storage, and application layers.
• Operate and evolve highly available, low‑latency systems serving global trading load with a focus on automation and self‑service for internal teams.
• Participate in day‑time rotational on‑call, leading real‑time incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive work.
• Build and scale infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform and Ansible.
• Use observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana to detect anomalies and support incident triage.
• Partner with trading, engineering, and security to harden IAM, CI/CD, and threat detection practices.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Linux

AWS

Python

Bash

Go/JS familiarity

Incident response

IAM

SIEM

Performance engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Role overview

Join a globally distributed infrastructure team operating the systems that route and execute trades across dozens of centralized and decentralized venues in the digital asset markets. This is a senior hands‑on role focused on keeping latency-sensitive, high‑throughput trading infrastructure fast, reliable, and secure around the clock. The work spans performance tuning, automation, incident response, and platform engineering in a domain where milliseconds and uptime directly affect business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and harden production trading infrastructure, diagnosing and resolving bottlenecks across compute, network, storage, and application layers.
• Operate and evolve highly available, low‑latency systems serving global trading load, with a strong emphasis on automation and self‑service enablement for internal teams.
• Take part in a day‑time rotational on‑call schedule, leading real‑time incident response, root cause analysis, and long‑term preventive work.
• Build and scale infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform and configuration management using Ansible.
• Use observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana to detect anomalies, track performance trends, and support incident triage.
• Partner with trading, engineering, and security stakeholders to align platform changes with application needs and harden IAM, CI/CD, and threat detection practices.

Requirements

• Five or more years in DevOps or SRE roles supporting high‑performance, production‑grade systems.
• Strong Linux administration skills and proven experience operating AWS at scale.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and other container orchestration for containerized workloads.
• Solid scripting and automation ability in Python and Bash; familiarity with Go, JavaScript, or TypeScript is welcome.
• Hands‑on experience with Prometheus, Grafana and live incident response.
• Working knowledge of Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Understanding of performance engineering across system and network layers, including tuning, profiling, and capacity planning.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, security best practices, IAM, and SIEM tooling.

Nice to have

• Backgroundin cryptoor traditionalfinancetradingenvironments, spanningCeFiorDeFivenues.
• Exposuretoperformancetestingtoolsandmethodologies.
• Experiencewithsupplychainsecurity, secrets management, and hardened build pipelines.

Benefits and work setup

• Distributed team spanning APAC, Europe, and the US, collaborating across time zones.
• High degree of ownership over core infrastructure where uptime and performance directly translate into business impact.
• Environment focused on autonomy, clarity, and rapid delivery on complex problems at the intersection of finance, cloud, and blockchain technology.
• Competitive compensation and flexible working arrangements.