Senior DevOps Engineer (Trading Platform)
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The Trading Infrastructure team at Crypto.com is building a high-performance, front-to-back trading platform that supports multi-asset trading with low-latency execution, robust risk controls, and seamless integration across trading, risk, operations, and finance workflows. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you design, provision, and maintain the scalable infrastructure that powers this system, including CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and runtime environments built on Java, Python, React, Aeron, ClickHouse, and Kubernetes.
What you'll do
- Design, provision, and maintain scalable infrastructure for trading systems, including CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and runtime environments.
- Administer and tune databases such as AWS Aurora, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse.
- Automate provisioning and configuration of EC2 and related resources using Ansible and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Ensure secure, stable environments through proper VPC design, IAM governance, and secret management.
- Build and maintain system metrics and alerts using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
- Enforce GitHub repository and branching standards across development teams.
- Ensure cost-effective infrastructure usage through continuous monitoring, resource optimization, and cost control strategies across AWS and containerized deployments.
- Manage backup and disaster recovery procedures for all critical systems.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to containerize services and fine-tune runtime performance.
- Evaluate and integrate AI and LLM tools to improve automation, diagnostics, and operational efficiency.
What you bring
- 5+ years of DevOps or SRE experience in high-availability, real-time systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and RDS, plus cost monitoring tools such as AWS Budgets and Cost Explorer.
- Skilled in provisioning and configuration management using Ansible; Terraform experience is a plus.
- Proficiency in ClickHouse and PostgreSQL; knowledge of kdb+ or InfluxDB is a bonus.
- Solid scripting skills in Python, Bash, or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and deployment automation.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging stacks; experience with Prometheus and Grafana is expected.
- Security-conscious mindset and experience with IAM, encryption, and secure system design.
- Ability to monitor and optimize computing resources to maintain performance within budget constraints.
- Comfort using AI tools for automation, diagnostics, or efficiency gains.
- Proficiency in English, spoken and written.
- Comfortable working in a global team with colleagues across APAC, EMEA, and North America.
- Strong communication skills; able to interface across all levels from senior leadership to engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, explaining complex systems to both technical and non-technical audiences.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Attractive annual leave entitlement including birthday and work anniversary leave
- Work flexibility with flexible work hours and hybrid or remote arrangements
- Crypto.com Visa card provided upon joining
- Internal mobility program offering career development opportunities
About Crypto.com
Founded in 2016, Crypto.com serves more than 150 million customers and is the world's fastest growing global cryptocurrency platform. Built on a foundation of security, privacy, and compliance, Crypto.com is committed to accelerating cryptocurrency adoption and empowering builders, creators, and entrepreneurs to develop a fairer digital ecosystem.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Crypto.com has 121 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 33 in Product, 20 in Legal & Compliance and 17 in Operations. All are on-site or hybrid, mostly in the US and Hong Kong. 24 were posted in the last 7 days. The median advertised base salary is $150k, from 79 listings that publish pay.
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