Job description
Almanak is looking for a DevOps Engineer (Senior/Mid) to join the team to build scalable infrastructure for AI Agents in DeFi.
We’re a small, fast-moving AI team that builds production-grade AI Agents and ships them into the wild. If you spend your evenings optimizing Kubernetes clusters and designing cloud-native architectures while ensuring your security posture can withstand the chaos of production workloads—keep reading.
What You’ll Do
Build scalable infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native systems on Google Cloud Platform that can handle high-throughput AI agent workloads and blockchain data processing at scale.
Orchestrate containerized workloads: Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters, implement GitOps workflows, and ensure seamless CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid agent deployment and iteration.
Secure the stack: Implement robust cloud security practices, manage IAM policies, network security, secrets management, and ensure compliance with security best practices across all environments.
Monitor and optimize: Set up comprehensive observability solutions, performance monitoring, and alerting systems. Identify bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization to keep costs lean while maintaining performance.
Enable the team: Work closely with our Python engineers to streamline development workflows, automate deployments, and provide the infrastructure foundation that lets them focus on building great AI agents.
Cloud engineering expertise: Deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (or equivalent cloud providers). You understand compute, networking, storage, and managed services inside and out.
Kubernetes mastery: You’ve designed, deployed, and maintained production Kubernetes clusters. You know the ecosystem—Helm, operators, service meshes, ingress controllers—and when to use each tool.
Security-first mindset: Experience with cloud security best practices, zero-trust architectures, container security, secrets management, and compliance frameworks. You think about security at every layer.
Infrastructure as Code: Proficient with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools. You believe in version-controlled, reproducible infrastructure and have battle-tested experience with it.
Scalability focus: You’ve built systems that handle significant load and know how to design for horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation.
DevOps culture: Strong CI/CD experience, monitoring and observability practices, and a collaborative approach to working with development teams.
Nice-to-Haves
Prior experience scaling AI/ML workloads or blockchain infrastructure in production.
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and advanced Kubernetes patterns.
Familiarity with DeFi protocols and the unique infrastructure challenges of crypto applications. Contributions to open-source infrastructure or DevOps tooling.
Compensation: You’ll receive competitive compensation, consisting of either fiat/crypto remuneration and an equity package in the core Almanak holding + bonuses.
Flexible schedule & remote work: You’ll be able to work remotely and manage your own time. We want you to work from a place that makes you the happiest and contributes to your overall well-being.
Co-working space, gear, and education budgets: The company will invest in your comfort at work and in your personal growth.
Impact: You’ll work with some of the smartest people in the space and play a pivotal role in influencing the way some of the most popular crypto applications are built.
