DevOps Engineer at ApeX Protocol

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure 24/7 stability of core trading systems, including transaction chains, market data services, and related infrastructure. Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and post-mortems to guarantee service continuity and asset security.
• Design, build, and optimize AWS and EKS/Kubernetes production infrastructure, covering cloud architecture, networking, high availability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery. Manage Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, node lifecycle, scheduling, resource management, Ingress/LB, DNS, storage, and auto-scaling.
• Develop and enhance observability and stability frameworks (Metrics, Logs, Tracing, Alerting, SLI/SLO, Incident Response, Postmortem) to improve issue detection, diagnosis, and recovery. Collaborate with development teams to address system bottlenecks and architectural risks.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and automation (Terraform/Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, Ansible) to standardize and automate infrastructure and application delivery. Improve change management, release, validation, and rollback processes.
• Manage production operations for core data and middleware services like MySQL, Redis, and Kafka, including HA, monitoring, capacity planning, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Drive AWS and Kubernetes security governance, covering IAM/RBAC, network isolation, container/image security, secrets management (Secrets/KMS), vulnerability management, and security audits. Coordinate security incident responses with relevant teams.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/cloud infrastructure experience. Hands-on experience in large-scale production environments, infrastructure design, and complex incident resolution. Strong risk awareness and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Solid foundation in Linux, networking, and container technologies. Proven expertise in Kubernetes/EKS cluster setup, upgrades, tuning, and troubleshooting (Pod/Node/network level). Familiarity with Java/Go application environments and debugging.
• AWS production experience with core services (IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch). Understanding of multi-AZ, HA, network isolation, least privilege, auto-scaling, capacity planning, and cost optimization. Ability to design infrastructure, assess risks, and resolve issues.
• Strong IaC/CI/CD/automation skills (Terraform/Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, Ansible). Proficient in scripting (Bash/Python) to enhance infrastructure and deployment reliability.
• Observability and stability governance expertise (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetry). Knowledge of Metrics/Logs/Tracing, SLI/SLO, alerting, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Production operations experience with MySQL/Redis/Kafka. Security/DevSecOps background (IAM, RBAC, network/container security, Secrets/KMS, vulnerability management, audits). Ability to identify and mitigate security risks.
• Web3/Crypto industry experience preferred, with understanding of blockchain mechanics and digital asset trading risks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in high-availability real-time systems (e.g., crypto exchanges, finance, payments).
• Large-scale/high-traffic Kubernetes/EKS environments, AWS multi-account governance, cross-Region DR, or disaster recovery drills.
• Advanced cloud-native/security/cost optimization practices (Karpenter, Argo CD/Flux, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, FinOps).

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary.
• Singapore work visa sponsorship.
• Flat hierarchy with a diverse, inclusive team culture.
• Generous leave policy (annual/sick), weekends off, and excellent work environment.