ZKV - Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Company ZKValidator is a lean expert team with a diverse skill set. We’re driven by a mission, promoting 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, Celestia, Celo, Mina, Moonbeam, Polkadot and more.

Responsibilities

• Launching nodes on new PoS networks
• Understanding and deploying infrastructure in emerging distributed systems
• Participating in incentivised testnets
• Maintaining, improving and upgrading existing systems
• Collaborating with the networks to solve issues to the distributed systems
• Deploying and maintaining self-owned hardware in remote datacenters
• Being on-call to guarantee high availability of our systems

Requirements

• At least 3 years professional experience in devops, software engineering and/or working on client infrastructure
• Prior knowledge and experience working with relevant distributed / p2p systems, e.g., Mining, PoS system validation, MEV
• Prior knowledge with infrastructure as code tools like Ansible and Terraform / OpenTofu
• Experience using orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker
• Proven interest in the field of ZK
• The ability to identify emerging trends and exciting projects in the early stages of development
• You are a self-starter and have already run (blockchain) nodes professionally or on your own
• Have experience working on small teams & in a startup environment
• Bonus; experience in setting up and managing colocation server hardware