Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Aionex

Excelity; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology development firm in the UK is looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to manage and maintain the infrastructure for a decentralized exchange. You will be responsible for creating and monitoring infrastructure components, ensuring security and performance. A passion for blockchain technology is preferred, although previous experience is not mandatory. The role offers competitive compensation and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Health and dental insurance

Professional development opportunities

Generous vacation policy

Team-building events

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend systems.
• Experience with bare-metal and cloud computing.
• Strong focus on performance, scalability, and load testing.

Responsibilities

• Create infrastructure components for production and testing.
• Monitor and address infrastructure performance issues.
• Design and maintain CI/CD and GitOps workflows.

Skills

Infrastructure monitoring

CI/CD pipeline design

Automation with Ansible and Terraform

Cloud infrastructure best practices

Communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Databases

Networking

Job description

Aionex is an independent development company on the Perpl Protocol.

Summary

We are building a gas efficient fully decentralized exchange (DEX) for the Perpl Protocol and are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer who enjoys creating, managing and maintaining the versatile infrastructure used by DEX backend systems.

You will be an important member of our company, making history by contributing to the development of the first fully decentralized perpetuals exchange built around a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB), entirely on an EVM-compatible chain!

You will develop and maintain bare-metal and cloud environments, service orchestration, network connectivity, databases, blockchain nodes and observability to the highest standards of reliability, performance and security.

Although this project centres around a blockchain system, previous experience with blockchain is not a hard requirement but keen interest in the topic is a must.

Our Culture

We cultivate a dynamic and inclusive culture where innovation, creativity and deep technical knowledge flourish. Transparency, open communication, and hard work are at the heart of what we do. Our team is made up of passionate individuals dedicated to technology, customer success, and driving meaningful change.

Responsibilities

• Create code that instantiates production and test infrastructure components
• Monitor the performance of infrastructure components, addressing failures or scalability needs
• Maintain constant focus on infrastructure and operational security
• Design, implement, and maintain both traditional CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows.
• Work cross functionally with other engineers, internal and external teams to ensure rigorous infrastructure planning, timely implementation and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience.
• Experience configuring, deploying and monitoring secure production backend systems at scale comprised of the following components:
  • Ansible- and Terraform-based automated deployments
  • Bare-metal and cloud computing
  • Networking
  • Data Pipeline Tools
  • Relational, In-Memory, and Time-series Databases
  • Kubernetes
  • Notification Systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure best practices around automation, identity management, and security, having created and maintained infrastructure for production grade systems.
• Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant systems with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and load testing to ensure reliability under production workloads.
• Experience running chaos monkey, penetration testing, and other security best practices.
• Experience leading cross-functional efforts to launch products.
• Excellent oral, written and visual communication skills.

Bonus Points

• Past experience working in high-paced startup environments
• Knowledge of EVM, DEXs, Perpetuals, and other novel DeFi primitives
• Proficiency in AWS, GCP, etc
• Competitive salary, equity and token package
• Comprehensive health and dental insurance coverage for you and your family
• Professional development opportunities, including training programs and conferences
• Generous vacation and paid time off policy
• Company-sponsored social activities and team-building events
• Modern and comfortable work environment with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities