Aztec is looking to add privacy to Ethereum, as current public blockchains compromise privacy and security. They are building a Layer 2 with private smart contracts, which requires new cryptographic primitives, a zero-knowledge DSL, a privacy-friendly execution environment, and a decentralized block-building and proving mechanism. The DevOps Engineering Lead will help 10x development velocity while preserving quality and security.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in cloud platforms, bare metal and distributed systems
- Proven experience building, scaling, and maintaining production infrastructure
- Hands-on proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, etc.), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Strong background in automation, scripting, and tooling (Bash; you will be writing lots of code in this role)
- Excellent ability to diagnose and resolve complex system, scaling, or performance issues
Responsibilities
- Own the internal platforms critical to our ability to develop, test, deploy, and monitor our code
- Design and implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automation to minimize lead time across the stack
- Develop and enforce best practices for observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response to minimize MTTR
- Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS)
- Lead technical design discussions, post-mortems, and architecture reviews as they pertain to the systems described above
- Identify and proactively address performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and system vulnerabilities as they pertain to the systems described above
- Keep a cool head when on-call
Other
- 7+ years of relevant industry experience
- Self-starter mindset with the ability to balance technical depth, team leadership, and strategic impact
- Experience in Web3 or high-growth startups, a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication (we’re serious)
- Comfortable working autonomously and asynchronously within a distributed team.
- Located in or able to work within GMT to EST time zones.
