About Kraken
As one of the largest and most trusted digital asset platforms globally, we are empowering people to experience the life-changing potential of crypto. Trusted by over 8 million consumer and pro traders, institutions, and authorities worldwide - our unique combination of products, services, and global expertise is helping tip the scales towards mass crypto adoption. But we're only just getting started. We want to be pioneers in crypto and add value to the everyday lives of billions. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Join us to bring crypto to the world.
This is a fully remote role.
Position Overview
The DevOps Engineer - Orchestration is critical to the Kraken platform and infrastructure. You are smart, highly skilled, and self-motivated, with a penchant for out-of-the-box thinking. You are a developer who is interested in deployment and network operations, or you're already somewhere on the journey to being a fully fledged DevOps practitioner. You'll be joining the production engineering team to provide software engineering and cloud infrastructure support and advice across the public-facing businesses, as well as becoming part of the wider DevSecOps team, and the global (and world-class) Security, IT and DevOps team. You'll become a member of a 55+ FTE DevSecOps team, and will be expected to contribute and learn across the full cloud engineering stack. You will be (or will become) a "T-shaped" individual with enormous potential to further your career in the burgeoning DevSecOps domain, with the guidance of industry leaders in Security and DevOps, and alongside a mature team of true polyglots and talented microservices developers.
At Kraken, our culture and our people are at the core of our strategy, and the future growth and health of our company rests on our ability to attract and retain the very best talent in the industry.
Responsibilities Write good quality policies, procedures and technical documentation.Nurture security awareness in the organization, produce material to support this, and relate this to the current threat landscape.Be familiar with risks introduced to organization by third parties, and processes to mitigate these.Take a risk-based approach to all facets of information security.Have a "finger on the pulse" of current challenges and exploits in the ecosystem.Promote technical vision for containerized product development, deployment, and operationalization.Drive a metrics-driven culture and software delivery process using data to measure overall system quality.Collaborate in the planning phase of any new or modified business operation.Establish/maintain security guidelines, practices, and department procedures.Design clusters orchestrated in such a way to guarantee a high degree of reliability, security, and scalability.Troubleshoot and triage issues as they arise.Work closely with various teams across the organization, including the security team, development team, and operations team for any container platform requests.Execute with minimal technical supervision, embrace reliability constraints, and be proactive in contributing improvements to the platform.Be an active participant in a truly world class global security organization. RequirementsDemonstrated understanding of core Kubernetes and/or Hashicorp Nomad solution architecture and the extended landscape of tools and services.Understanding of K8S pipeline and deployment patterns.Deep knowledge of mixed operating system environments, structured, non-structured and distributed data platforms.Strong analytical skills as applied to information technology, and can work independently of others in an assignment.Can work directly with project managers, infrastructure engineers and software developers.Raises awareness on issues that can negatively impact delivering on time and to set specifications.Strong experience with identifying and remediating different orchestrators' vulnerabilities.Experience with maintenance such as Kubernetes and/or Nomad patches and upgrades.Strong implementation experience in public cloud and on-prem container services.Ability to code/script in Python/Shell/Golang.Comprehensive DevOps skills including experience with source, artifacts, orchestration, configuration, and secret management in CI/CD.Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Location Tagging: #EU #US #LI-Remote #LI-NT1 #APAC
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