Staff DevOps Engineer

About us

Aave Labs builds innovative products leveraging blockchain technologies. Aave Labs suite includes the Aave app, unleashing the Aave Protocol and its native stablecoin GHO, Lens, an open social network, and Family, a design-first mobile crypto wallet. Our vision is to build a people-powered internet that benefits all.

Our culture

Having cultivated a thriving, collaborative culture, our team is kind, welcoming and passionate about what we are building. We celebrate differences and seek to develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool from all over the world. No matter where you are based, no ghost will be left behind and we appreciate every moment we get to work and have fun together.

About the role:

We're seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this crucial role, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and administering tools to automate operational activities and enhance engineering productivity.

How you can make an impact:

• Develop, maintain and administer tools which will automate operational activities and improve engineering productivity.
• Automate continuous delivery and on-demand capacity management solutions.
• Developing configuration and infrastructure solutions for internal deployments.
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products. Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class security solutions.
• Follow DevOps principles (GitOps) to automate and optimize the build and release products.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and other Team Members to identify and mitigate risks associated with releases.
• Supporting the delivery of consistent DevSecOps best practices across the organization.

Let's connect if you have:

• 6+ years of technical experience in a similar role architecting and supporting large scale production systems
• 6+ years of experience on IaC tools, preferable Terraform and Ansible.
• 6+ years of experience with cloud services such as AWS and GCP
• Strong understanding of Linux and configuration management.
• A strong background in container management, deployment, and orchestration. Strong Kubernetes experience and docker are skills required.
• Experience managing the monitoring and observability stack of infrastructure and applications using tools like CloudWatch(AWS), Cloud Monitoring(GCP), Datadog, Grafana.
• Demonstrated robust programming skills in Python, Go, bash or similar.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Haven't quite met all the criteria Let's not miss out on the chance to speak. Whilst you might not meet every single requirement, you might bring other, more exciting skills to the companies!

Equal opportunities statement:

Aave Labs celebrates diversity and views each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Aave Labs. As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone's potential to build, create and inspire changes. With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.