About The Company

ZKV is a small, expert team with a diverse skill set. We’re driven by a mission, bringing privacy and Zero Knowledge tech, the next frontier of Web3. We strive to provide high-performance infrastructure to blockchain networks, which has allowed us to be a top validator on Cosmos, Moonbeam and Polkadot

Job Short Description

ZKValidator is seeking a motivated Junior DevOps Engineer to join our team on a contracting basis who can hit the ground running to enhance our delivery capabilities. The ideal candidate will have experience with cloud and bare-metal hosting providers (in particular Hetzner and OVH) and a good understanding of deploying resource-optimised, auditable, and reliable cloud infrastructure using tools like Ansible, Systemd, Docker, and Grafana+Prometheus. 

In this role, you will be responsible for extending and enhancing the infrastructure and deployment pipelines for our environments, improving alerting, optimising our resource distribution as well as ensuring high availability and scalability. 

If you are passionate about building optimised reliable cloud infrastructure and have a strong background in DevOps, we would love to hear from you.

Role requirements

The requirements for the Junior DevOps Engineer role at ZKValidator are as follows:

Build resource-optimised, observable auditable, and reliable cloud infrastructure

Strong understanding of common DevOps tooling for Unix-based systems such as Bash scripting, Ansible, Systemd, Docker, Grafana+Prometheus, Zerotier, PagerDuty, etc.

Strong understanding of deployment on common cloud and bare-metal hosting providers such as AWS, Hetzner, or OVH etc.

Experience in security hardening of servers is a plus

Experience in deployment of blockchain networks is a plus 

Experience in setting up co-location-based server infrastructure is a plus

Permament location near European time zones is a plus (UK is a big plus!), but not necessary.

Skills

Bash scripting, Ansible, Systemd, Docker, Grafana+Prometheus, Zerotier, PagerDuty

Compensation