Senior DevOps Engineer
Auros is an algorithmic trading and market-making firm focused on liquidity provision in the digital asset space.
About Auros
Auros is an algorithmic trading and market making firm that delivers liquidity for exchanges and token projects. The firm combines high-frequency trading technology with strategic partnerships to provide consistent market making services. With operations across multiple global venues, Auros focuses on reducing trading friction and enhancing token accessibility through contractualized performance metrics.
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About the Role
You will scale and operate infrastructure that powers millions of trades daily across CeFi and DeFi venues. You will ensure system performance, reliability, and security; participate in a rotational on-call schedule and handle real-time incidents; build and maintain infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and configuration management with Ansible; instrument and use observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana for incident response and capacity planning; optimize throughput and reduce latency at compute, network, storage, and application layers; implement secure CI/CD pipelines, IAM controls and threat detection; and collaborate closely with developers, traders, and security teams to deliver reliable production systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years in DevOps or SRE roles focused on high-performance production-grade systems
- Proficiency in Linux administration
- Experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure
- Proficiency with containerized workloads with Kubernetes
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python and Bash
- Knowledge of Go, JavaScript, or TypeScript is a plus
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Hands-on production incident response experience
- Experience with Google Cloud and Azure is desirable
- Experience with automation and IaC tools including Ansible and Terraform
- Understanding of performance engineering, system and network tuning, profiling and capacity planning
- Knowledge of cloud networking, security best practices, IAM and SIEM tools
Responsibilities
- Ensure performance and reliability of mission-critical trading infrastructure by proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks across compute, network, storage, and application layers
- Support, operate, and continuously improve highly available, low-latency systems under global trading load with a strong focus on automation and self-service
- Participate in a daytime rotational on-call schedule and handle real-time operational incidents and root cause analysis
- Use metrics and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to detect anomalies, monitor performance trends, and support incident response
- Build, manage, and scale infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and configuration management tools like Ansible
- Collaborate with trading, engineering, and security teams to align infrastructure improvements with application demands
- Implement robust security practices including IAM, threat detection, and secure CI/CD pipelines
- Apply low-level optimization strategies to improve throughput, reduce latency, and increase system efficiency
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible working environment
- Work with a global high-performance team spanning APAC, Europe and US
