Senior DevOps Engineer

Founded in 2018 and based in NYC, The Block is the leading research, analysis, and news brand in the digital asset space. The Block's team is spread across 7 time zones, covering the global cryptocurrency space 24/7.

The Block delivers deep insight into how the emerging digital assets sector interacts with traditional finance, technology, governments, and markets. We reach hundreds of thousands of technologists, financial market participants, Fortune 500 professionals, global service providers, policymakers, and more through our main website, dedicated Research Portal, podcast, and events.

You will be responsible for managing, securing, and scaling our cloud infrastructure in AWS and other services. You will also provide development support for various backend systems such as our CMS, APIs, and data pipelines.

An effective DevOps Engineer should be able to effectively communicate with the team and develop solutions that deliver stable, secure infrastructure. The ideal candidate must be able to prioritize tasks and complete them in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the stability and security of our production websites and systems

• Build CI/CD tools to support developer lifecycle

• Optimize infrastructure automation for development and staging environments

• Collaborate with our engineers to build and maintain the infrastructure required for feature development

• Clearly communicate development progress across the Product & Engineering team

• Be creative in solving engineering problems

• Work with team managers on development prioritization and career development opportunities

• Contribute to the culture of quality, healthy collaboration, and leading by example

Qualifications

• Strong familiarity managing cloud infrastructure in AWS or other IaaS providers (e.g. Azure, GCP)

• Strong familiarity building and optimizing Docker images for size and build time

• Strong familiarity managing resources with IaC tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging via AWS tooling (CloudWatch)

• Experience managing cloud-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Github Actions, Travis, Circle CI)

• Experience with managing and tuning APM tools (e.g. New Relic, DataDog)

• Strong familiarity with Unix / Linux operating systems and general command-line knowledge

• Responds positively when receiving and giving feedback

• Experience using code reviews and pair programming within the Agile Development lifecycle

• 5 or more years experience in DevOps or Cloud engineering

Who We Are: The culture of The Block lies in our key behaviors. It’s who we are and it’s how we show up every day.

We are confidently humble. We jump in and roll up our sleeves. We know there’s always more to learn and we operate without egos.

We are actionably curious. We strive to be an expert in our field and always seek opportunities to expand our knowledge and skill set. We put our learnings into practice every day. 

We practice tenacious ownership. Every day when we show up we are contributors, teammates, and owners. We rotate through those three hats with agility and without sacrificing accountability or consistency.

We practice respectful partnership. We treat others as we’d expect to be treated - with respect, concern, understanding, and patience.

Why you should work here

We take care of our employees and we have the benefits and perks to support it. Our full-time, US-based employees are eligible for Unlimited PTO, remote-first environment, high health plan employer contributions, monthly wellness stipend, generous parental leave policy, 401k match, fitness partnerships, fertility benefits, One Medical membership, and Citi bike membership. 

We’re a remote-first company which allows us to hire the best person for the job regardless of location. 

Impactful work. Regardless of your role at The Block, you’re making a meaningful contribution to our mission in accelerating the evolution of financial systems through independent reporting and technical research of all projects influencing the future of financial services.

What else should you know?

The Block is an equal employment opportunity employer.  Qualified candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

During our application process, we collect completely anonymous diversity information. Providing this information is voluntary but we want you to know what we do with it. We use the data to ensure that our recruiting practices are bringing diverse talent to the organization and we are reacting where we are coming up short. We strive to use the data to ensure we have the tools and resources for all employees both during the interview process and should those employees choose to join us at The Block.