[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Quidax Technologies

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale, secure, and automate the infrastructure that powers Quidax. You’ll be part of the team ensuring that millions of dollars in crypto transactions happen seamlessly, every single day.

You’ll work closely with our engineers to deploy services faster, safer, and smarter. This role is for someone who’s obsessed with reliability, loves automation, and gets a kick out of making systems run smoother than yesterday.

If you can think creatively, bring fresh ideas to the table, and thrive in fast-moving, high-stakes environments, this is your kind of challenge.

What You’ll Be Owning

• Infrastructure & Reliability
  • Manage and improve cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar).
  • Design, deploy, and maintain scalable and secure services that support millions of transactions.
  • Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize for speed and reliability.
  • Manage database clusters (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch) for performance and resilience.
• Automation & CI/CD
  • Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines (Github Action, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar).
  • Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Build deployment automation that minimizes downtime and reduces human error.
  • Automate environment setup, testing, and release workflows.
• Security & Observability
  • Ensure systems are safe, patched, and secure against cyber threats.
  • Implement monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.
  • Collaborate with the Security and Compliance teams on audits and best practices.
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
  • Partner with Backend, Frontend, and Product teams to deliver scalable, production-ready systems.
  • Participate in architecture discussions and release planning.
  • Support your teammates with reviews, documentation, and knowledge-sharing.
  • Contribute to team processes, retrospectives, and roadmap discussions.

Biggest Challenges You’ll Tackle

• Keeping up with product speed while ensuring infra stability and uptime as well as incident ownership.
• Balancing automation with control, fewer manual steps, fewer mistakes.
• Managing infrastructure for both fiat and crypto systems in a single ecosystem.
• Supporting rapid scale while maintaining cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure experience.
• Proficiency with AWS (or equivalent cloud provider).
• Strong understanding of Linux-based systems and networking.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Solid scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of database management (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch).
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across systems and applications.
• A passion for clean, reliable, and scalable infrastructure.

Nice-to-haves

• Crypto or fintech experience.
• Familiarity with blockchain node infrastructure.
• Experience implementing observability systems (Grafana Stack, Datadog, etc).
• Understanding of zero-downtime deployments and blue-green rollouts.
• Familiarity with Java Springboot Framework, Typescript, Ruby on Rails.

Reporting Line

You’ll report to the Engineering Manager (DevOps) and work closely with the Backend, Product, and Security teams to ensure a smooth and secure deployment experience across all Quidax services.

Benefits

• Fair Pay + Ownership
  • Competitive salary based on your skills and experience; annual merit-based reviews to keep your growth visible and rewarded.
• Growth That’s Real
  • Annual performance reviews + clear promotion cycles; recognition for great work, from shoutouts to milestone rewards.
  • Personal development fund (courses, books, conferences); study leave so you can keep learning.
• Work That Works For You
  • Fully remote forever + flexible working hours.
• Time Off That Respects Life
  • Unlimited paid time off + Nigerian national holidays.
  • Parental, sick, compassionate, and life event leave; we show up for you.
• Connection That Feels Real
  • Quarterly remote team hangouts + annual offsite; interest-based communities (SIGs).
  • Regular engagement surveys; your voice matters.
  • Health & life coverage in select locations.

How to apply:

We love seeing applications that speak directly to us. It’s easy for your application to get lost in a sea of generic ones, especially when we’re sorting through dozens of them. So, make yours stand out! Show us your personality, your passion, and why you’re the perfect fit. We appreciate the effort it takes to create something thoughtful and unique.

If you make it through to the next stage, you’ll likely get a pre-interview questionnaire. Think of it as a chance to show us how you’d approach the challenges we face here at Quidax. Imagine you’re already part of the team and walk us through your thought process as you tackle the problems we throw your way.

What our hiring process looks like

• 1. First Connect (with the Recruiter) - 30 mins
  • Let’s talk about your experience, your story, and how you might fit at Quidax.
• 2. Technical Chat - 120 mins
  • Talk us through your real wins, show us how you solve problems, live with the team.
• 3. Culture Chat - 45 mins
  • You get the chance to meet members of our leadership team and y’all can talk shop.

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