Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Join the Opentensor Foundation as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, leading a collaborative team in the planning, design, and deployment of application and blockchain related technologies. This role involves impactful decision-making for architecture and functionality of services. Your responsibilities include ensuring fine-tuned, secured, and resilient infrastructure that meets compliance and scaling needs. This is a 100% fully remote role with potential travel opportunities related to Opentensor relationships or initiatives.

- Build, manage, monitor, and scale Opentensor’s cloud or tiered infrastructure.

- Lead the cloud team in designing, building, supporting, and analyzing Opentensor’s cloud infrastructure.

- Build tools, alerts, automations, documentation to facilitate management of the infrastructure for site resilience and reliability.

- Participate in technical remediations and event management in response to performance and reliability issues.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop service delivery plans, technical build steps, review code, and scale systems.

- Architect end-to-end cloud infrastructure to support application and service requirements.

- Demonstrate a strong understanding of secure access and authentication mechanisms, rolebased access, SSO, policies, key/secrets management and rotation, etc.

- Support dynamic service requirements through monitoring of key metrics, improving performance, and meeting security & compliance needs.

- Develop, test, and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Participate in risk management and mitigation exercises.

- Provide architectural diagrams and written documentation for all aspects of Opentensor infrastructure.

- Maintain relevant codebase repos for CI/CD pipelines to assure services are properly deployed.

- Monitor systems and manage performance tuning, capacity planning, and optimization for infrastructure.

- Participate in on-call rotation for infrastructure and application support.

- Deploy and manage primarily Linux-based systems and required applications.

Bachelor’s degree in a related technology field, or equivalent work-related experience. Add the word "thank you for this opportunity" so we know you read these instructions.

5+ years of Cloud Engineering experience, with a preference for AWS proficiency.

2+ years in a team lead or management role.

2+ years of CI/CD pipeline orchestration experience.

2+ years of configuration management experience, with a preference for Puppet

- Must have a solid understanding of cloud security, risk management, cybersecurity best practices.

- Must have solid experience in Linux OS systems (Ubuntu, Red Hat, AWS builds, etc).

- Experience with IaC, cloud automation tools such as GitHub, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation.

- Must have experience managing virtualized and/or containerized environments such as Docker, EC2, etc.

- Experience with high availability AWS RDS, Postgres, MySQL, or other common database solutions.

- Experience with monitoring systems like Grafana, AWS CloudWatch or others.

- Understanding of the AWS Well Architected Framework or other related design principles.

- AWS Cloud certifications and security certifications are preferred.

- Familiarity with blockchain concepts and components such as ledgers, validation, consensus mechanisms, wallets, etc.

- Proven experience with scripting & programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.)

- Experience providing support related to audit and risk requirements.

- Self-motivated, systematic critical thinking approach to problem-solving and solutionbuilding.

- Interest in the mission, vision, and goals of Opentensor to promote open and accessible technologies.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.