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Blockstream, founded in 2014 by cryptographer Adam Back, is the leading Bitcoin infrastructure company serving enterprises, institutions, and individual users. The company develops Bitcoin self-custody solutions, financial products, second-layer scaling technologies, and enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure.
This Senior DevOps Engineer role focuses on building and operating secure, resilient infrastructure across Blockstream's global Bitcoin products and internal platforms, with primary responsibility during APAC operating hours.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own production reliability during APAC hours: alert triage, incident coordination, mitigation, communication, and cross-region handoffs with Europe and North America
- Participate in shared primary/secondary on-call rotation with documented backup and escalation paths
- Build and operate GCP/GKE and hybrid Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform, Atlantis, FluxCD, Helm, and Kustomize
- Ship reviewed, observable, and reversible production changes through GitLab CI/CD and GitOps workflows
- Build monitoring and alerting with Prometheus/Mimir, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Grafana IRM; improve alert quality, SLOs, runbooks, and post-incident actions
- Operate stateful services including PostgreSQL/CloudNativePG, WAL backups, Redis, Kafka, persistent volumes, and capacity tuning
- Manage IAM, Workload Identity, secrets, artifact registries, DNS, TLS, ingress, load balancers, and network policies
- Automate repetitive operations using Python, Go, Bash, or similar tools
- Review infrastructure changes and collaborate asynchronously with engineers across regions
Required Qualifications:
- Five or more years of production experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure operations
- Strong Kubernetes and cloud-platform experience; production GCP/GKE experience preferred
- Strong Terraform/IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD fundamentals
- Solid Linux, containers, networking, DNS/TLS, IAM, and secrets-management knowledge
- Experience monitoring and responding to incidents involving distributed or stateful services
- Practical scripting and automation skills
- Clear written and spoken English with strong documentation and asynchronous handoff habits
- Ability to work APAC schedule and participate in on-call rotation
Preferred Qualifications:
- FluxCD, Helm, Kustomize, Atlantis, or GitLab CI experience
- Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Grafana IRM, Loki, or Alertmanager experience
- CloudNativePG, Barman/WAL recovery, Redis, Kafka, or GCS experience
- Bitcoin, Elements/Liquid, electrs, Lightning, or high-availability financial infrastructure experience
- Hybrid/on-premises Kubernetes or security-sensitive infrastructure experience
