Senior Infrastructure Engineer

HiresRight; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital asset exchange company is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and maintain a high-performance distributed system for trade processing and blockchain interaction. The engineer will focus on building resilient cloud-based infrastructures, implementing security measures, and ensuring system reliability. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in computer science and experience with cloud technologies, and will collaborate closely with engineering teams. This full-time role is pivotal in creating a secure and efficient trading platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience with implementing and maintaining highly reliable and secure cloud-based infrastructures.
• Participation in production support events.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to 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 contribute production support efforts.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Security controls

Distributed systems

Production support

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

About the job Senior Infrastructure Engineer

EDX is seeking a full-time Senior 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:

• Contribute to 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 contribute production support efforts

Experience:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field
• Implementing and maintaining highly reliable and secure cloud based infrastructures
• Participate in production support events