Site Reliability Engineering Lead

What you’ll do
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This is a high-impact, hands-on SRE leadership role for a senior engineer who will own reliability, performance, and operational excellence across production systems, Virtual Blockchain environments, and validator infrastructure.

• Own production reliability, resilience, and uptime across critical systems
• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud environments for multi-layer blockchain execution and prover workflows
• Define and implement SRE processes including incident response, observability, alerting, on-call, and reliability KPIs
• Establish best practices for release management, configuration, secrets, and environment reproducibility
• Support deployment, scaling, and reliability of client-specific Virtual Blockchain environments
• Partner with engineering teams on protocol operations, validator infrastructure, and network upgrades
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, and testing workflows
• Build and mentor a high-performing SRE team as the organisation scales
• Act as the technical authority on infrastructure architecture and operational decisions
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To succeed in this role, you’ll be excited to

• Take full ownership of the company’s reliability posture from day one
• Work closely with engineering, product, and external partners to ensure seamless deployments
• Build the operational foundation for an infrastructure platform serving institutional users
• Create and scale an SRE practice from hands-on leadership to team ownership
• Thrive in an environment that values autonomy, precision, and accountability
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Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, platform, or infrastructure-focused engineering roles
• Proven experience owning reliability and uptime for distributed or mission-critical systems
• Strong Linux, networking, and cloud platform expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, alerting, incident response, and on-call systems
• Strong working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, secrets management, logging, and metrics
• Ability to design fault-tolerant, automated infrastructure at scale
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, product, and protocol teams
• Europe-based preferred, with ability to operate across global time zones
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Bonus points

• Experience operating blockchain or distributed ledger infrastructure
• Familiarity with EVM-based systems, zkVMs, or cryptographic workloads
• Experience supporting high-throughput, low-latency, or regulated environments
• Prior experience building or leading an SRE team

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