About the role:

CoinMarketCap is seeking a Web3 DevOps Engineer (Contractor) to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation systems. This role spans cloud architecture, observability, and infrastructure as code, with a focus on improving release quality, reducing manual toil, and ensuring the availability and performance of CoinMarketCap's platforms.

Responsibilities:

📍Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations: Design, build, and optimize highly available and secure cloud architectures on AWS. 📍CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design and maintain end-to-end pipelines from code commit to deployment — including build, test, artifact management, release, and rollback — to improve release frequency and quality. 📍Operations Automation: Reduce manual toil through programming and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom scripts/platforms) to automate configuration management, change execution, and incident response. 📍Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage AWS cloud resources and network configurations using Terraform to ensure environment consistency, auditability, and reproducibility. 📍CDN Operations: Configure, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS CDN services to ensure acceleration and availability of static assets and streaming media. 📍Monitoring, Alerting & Observability: Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems to enable rapid issue identification and drive capacity and performance optimization.

Requirements:

📍Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field. 📍3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering. 📍Proficient with AWS: hands-on experience with core services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS. 📍Solid understanding of cloud-native principles; familiar with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes or AWS EKS managed service), service mesh, and serverless technologies. 📍Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD). 📍Familiar with pipeline design principles: multi-environment management, branching strategies, artifact management, blue-green/canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms. 📍Experience building and optimizing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki. 📍Strong automation programming skills: proficient in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Shell, Python, Go) for writing automation scripts and tools. 📍Able to design automation solutions for operational scenarios and integrate with existing monitoring, ticketing, and configuration management systems. 📍Proficient with Terraform: able to manage AWS resources with modular design and proven hands-on experience. 📍Familiarity with Ansible for configuration management and batch operations (e.g., system initialization, application deployment, configuration distribution). 📍Hands-on CDN operations experience: familiar with AWS CloudFront configuration, caching strategies, domain and certificate management. 📍Able to perform bandwidth/traffic and cost analysis, origin optimization, troubleshooting, and SLA assurance. 📍Strong documentation habits, communication, collaboration, and ability to drive initiatives across teams. 📍Solid problem analysis and post-mortem skills; able to participate in or lead root cause analysis and drive improvement actions.

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