OKX is looking to assess and assure its critical infrastructure and DevOps practices to ensure the highest levels of resilience, scalability, and security for its global operations within the crypto exchange.
Requirements
- Prior Crypto Exchange/Crypto Product Experience is Essential.
- Strong Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills: Capacity to analyze complex, often novel, technical and control environments unique to crypto, identify intricate root causes of issues, and propose effective, context-specific solutions.
- Fundamental Understanding of Blockchain Technology: Basic knowledge of distributed ledger technologies, consensus mechanisms (e.g., PoW, PoS), cryptography (hashing, public-key), and the lifecycle of a cryptocurrency transaction.
- Data Analytics/SQL for Infrastructure & DevOps Auditing: Expert ability to analyze complex data across the entire technology stack, including CI/CD pipeline logs, git commit history, dependency manifests, configuration management logs, system logs, network flow data, infrastructure-as-code configurations, and cloud provider logs, specifically for audit purposes.
- Infrastructure Auditing: Comprehensive knowledge of IT infrastructure components, with a specialized focus on independently auditing the resilience, scalability, and security of blockchain nodes, low-latency trading systems, and high-availability wallet infrastructure.
- Cloud Computing Platform Auditing: Expert-level auditing of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) specifically for mission-critical crypto workloads, including container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless functions, multi-region deployments, and ensuring geo-redundancy for key assets.
- Operating System (OS) Auditing (for Blockchain Nodes & Exchange Servers): Deep dive capability to assess the hardening, patching, kernel configurations, and user access controls for operating systems hosting blockchain nodes, trading engines, and critical exchange services.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a global Infrastructure & Developer Operations audit team, including hiring and developing individuals across key regions.
- Drive the execution of global audit programs, specifically assessing the design and operating effectiveness of controls over infrastructure, cloud computing platforms, operating systems, networking, virtualization, containerization, storage systems, DevOps practices, and Secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee the independent validation of IT incidents related to infrastructure and development operations, and provide critical audit support for group-wide IT certifications.
- Collaborate effectively with other functional and regional Internal Audit portfolio leads to provide expert infrastructure and DevOps controls testing and assurance for integrated audits.
- Develop and implement advanced audit methodologies tailored to the unique complexities of high-performance, distributed crypto systems, emphasizing the assessment of automated and secure deployments, and ongoing maintenance and management processes.
- Provide strategic audit insights and independent assurance on emerging infrastructure and DevOps risks in the cryptocurrency space to senior leadership and the Audit Committee.
Other
- Lead and manage a global Infrastructure & Developer Operations audit team, including hiring and developing individuals across key regions.
- Prior Crypto Exchange/Crypto Product Experience is Essential.
- The salary range for this position is $240,000 - $360,000
