DevOps Engineer (Vac DST)

As a DevOps Engineer on the Distributed Systems Testing (DST) team at IFT Technical Services, you'll design and execute comprehensive evaluation strategies for distributed systems at scale. You focus on rigorously assessing the performance and reliability of IFT projects, including Logos (λ), a sovereign technology stack composed of an advanced privacy blockchain, private peer-to-peer messaging, and secure decentralised storage. You'll leverage large-scale lab deployments and protocol behavior modeling to troubleshoot complex issues and translate technical data into actionable recommendations.

What you'll do

• Design, configure, and optimize Kubernetes clusters to support large-scale experiments and benchmarks of P2P technologies
• Continuously improve cluster scalability and resource utilization to enable increasingly complex deployments and experiments
• Set up, maintain, and optimize supporting infrastructure such as monitoring, logging, and observability stacks including Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki
• 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

What you bring

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production or research environments
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking, especially as relevant to distributed and P2P systems
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and VictoriaLogs
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Helm
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or 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

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with libp2p or projects in the Logos collective
• Background in performance benchmarking, scalability testing, or systems research
• Contributions to open source projects
• Experience working for an open-source organization

About Logos (λ)

Logos (λ) is a movement of technologists, creatives, strategists, and activists building a sovereign, people-owned technology stack that revitalises civil society and protects digital liberties at scale. The technology stack comprises an advanced privacy blockchain for decentralised applications, private peer-to-peer messaging that resists surveillance and censorship, and secure decentralised storage enabling fully decentralised apps and file sharing.