BitMEX is the world’s leading cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, which has pioneered cryptocurrency trading through relentless commitment to change, and continues to set benchmarks for innovation, liquidity, and security today.
As the world's most advanced peer-to-peer crypto-products trading platform and API, BitMEX gives knowledge, confidence, and precision to hundreds of thousands of traders, transacting billions of USD a day.
Overview
As a member of the Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for managing and supporting the infrastructure which drives our platform. The reliability and scalability of our technology is key to our success and this position will work with our development and security teams to help design highly available and fault tolerant systems.
Responsibilities
Manage and support our AWS cloud infrastructure, EC2 instances and physical servers
Development and management of IaC to ensure consistency of our infrastructure
Ensuring security hardening of our OS builds and configurations
Manage and maintain config management tooling to ensure consistency
Manage Key Management infrastructure
Integration of our stack with Kubernetes
Ensure SRE best practices for design and operation of the stack
Design, implement and test disaster recovery capabilities to ensure our business can continue to operate in the event of a technology failure
Participate in an on-call rota for escalations
Qualifications
Strong practical AWS knowledge
Minimum 6 years SRE / DevOps experience supporting and managing Linux based infrastructure
Working knowledge of key management systems
Computer science or engineering degree preferred - strong understanding of fundamental Computer Science principles is required
Comfortable with at least one scripting language such as Python, Ruby or Bash
Able to work under minimal supervision to identify problem areas requiring improvement and seeing a plan through to implementation
Production experience of running Config Management systems (Chef, Ansible, Puppet etc)
Experience working in Investment banking / finance related field (e.g. Equities, FX, Electronic Trading
Experience with networking devices
Join us, as we build a thriving cryptocurrency ecosystem through strategic investments in emerging cryptocurrency technology, and create the future of digital financial service.