Tech Stack
AnsibleCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaKubernetesLinuxOpen SourcePrometheusPythonTerraform
About the role
- We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to join our Vac Distributed Systems Testing (DST) team.
- In this role, you will be a key contributor to ensuring the robustness, efficiency, and scalability of distributed systems across Vac and the Logos collective.
- Your primary duties will involve the conception, configuration, and optimization of distributed technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Design, configure, and optimize Kubernetes clusters to support large-scale experiments and benchmarks of P2P technologies (e.g., libp2p, Waku, Codex, Nomos).
- Continuously improve cluster scalability and resource utilization, enabling increasingly complex deployments and experiments.
- Set up, maintain, and optimize supporting infrastructure such as monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.).
- Collaborate with DST researchers and engineers to streamline experimentation workflows and make analysis easier and more reproducible.
- Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows to increase reliability and reduce overhead.
- Troubleshoot, profile, and tune distributed workloads to ensure accurate and performant benchmarking.
- Identify, reproduce, and debug complex issues in distributed systems, working closely with Logos development teams.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production or research environments.
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking (especially relevant to distributed/P2P systems).
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/Loki, etc.).
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.).
- Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (ideally Python).
- Interest in or experience with distributed systems, P2P networks, or blockchain technologies.
- Experience with networks and systems programming.
- Excellent written and conversational communication skills.
- Alignment with our core values and principles.