Job Summary:

Copper serves as a digital asset technology company focused on assisting institutional investors in securely acquiring, trading, and storing crypto assets. Founded and guided by Dmitry Tokarev, an expert in software and financial engineering, the company offers a comprehensive range of custody, trading, and settlement solutions that minimize counterparty risk and enhance efficiency in digital asset markets. Central to Copper's offerings is its pioneering Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology, which ensures secure custody. Noteworthy is Copper's award-winning custody system, uniquely designed to link with centralized exchanges, DeFi applications, and staking pools while the assets remain within custody.

Designed on the foundation of this cutting-edge custody technology, ClearLoop™ represents the industry’s first solution addressing the increasing challenge of counterparty risk associated with exchanges. This solution supports a prime services offering that interconnects global exchanges, enabling clients to trade and settle directly from MPC-secured wallets. By significantly reducing settlement duration to mere milliseconds (regardless of blockchain network dynamics) and providing enhanced security measures, ClearLoop™ is revolutionizing how asset managers trade and handle capital.

Beyond holding top security certifications, Copper boasts one of the most robust insurance protections in the industry from an A+ rated insurer, establishing the company as the preferred partner for institutions seeking asset protection.

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Our engineering division has been at the forefront of blockchain technology, driving cryptocurrency infrastructure standards worldwide since Copper's establishment in 2018. We are now seeking exceptional talents to expand our team and further boost the crypto ecosystem.

Role Responsibilities:

Building a fault-tolerant, geographically dispersed infrastructure to support multiple data centers, entail replication, sharding, auto balancing, and failover.
Participating in the deployment of services with stringent availability demands in a scalable environment, collaborating with fellow Engineers to ensure our systems meet current and future requirements.
Developing and maintaining code for automated infrastructure management (DevOps, Infrastructure as Code) using Ansible and Terraform.
Working in partnership with the Backend Engineering team to enhance our resilience through strategic systems and application metrics.
Enhancing our CI/CD pipeline to introduce new integration channels.
Constructing and preserving infrastructure for our own fleet of blockchain nodes (>25 layer 1 protocols currently, with more to come).

Candidate Requirements:

Five years of experience as a DevOps engineer with production infrastructure, well-versed in contemporary web application principles and CI/CD processes.
Proficiency in network security technologies, network security analysis tools, configuring access to nodes in a computer network, virtualization, and containerization systems.
Skill in AWS administration or with other cloud providers, coding non-trivial scripts, and task automation.
Strong familiarity with standard development pipelines and automation tools, along with the ability to independently solve intricate problems.

Key Technologies, Tools, and Languages Familiarity:

Architecture: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Cloud: AWS
CI/CD: Jenkins, GoCD
Orchestration: Docker, Docker-compose, Kubernetes
Interservice Communication: Rest, Rabbit MQ, HTTP
Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Clickhouse
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana
Logging: ELK stack

Benefits Offered:

Annual holidays with 27 days paid leave, on top of bank holidays.
Years of Service Days: Employees earn additional paid time off per year up to three years.
Vitality Health benefits including medical insurance, dental insurance, audiology cover, optical cover, menopause support, Headspace subscription, and other discounts.
Home Working Energy Support Scheme providing a monthly top-up for energy costs, company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contribution, cycle to work option, life insurance cover, EAP, Unmind access, sponsored Learning and Development opportunities, regular corporate events, and social activities.

If you believe you possess the required skills and more, we welcome you to apply to this position at our company. Copper is dedicated to fostering diversity and equal opportunities. We are committed to forming a team that encompasses various backgrounds, perspectives, and talents to enhance our work. Let us know if you require any assistance throughout the recruitment process as we strive to accommodate all needs.

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