Cloud Engineer

Layer2 Financial is a Crypto FinTech startup with a mission to bring safe Crypto Banking to anyone and everyone. We believe deeply that safe banking is a basic human right. It underpins strong communities, which enables strong economies which leads to a better world.

We are a small but rapidly growing team staffed by passionate people. We have a rich variety of experience covering technology, crypto, banking, payments, security and regulation. It makes us different and positions us to take on the challenges facing global banking and payments today.

We are building the next generation of banking services to bridge the gap between traditional banking and decentralized finance that will support the farmer in Canada to the field worker in Cambodia - driving the ‘banking of the unbanked’.

As a member of our team you will:

Work with cutting edge infrastructure tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and Linkerd and ensure our systems are always up and running.

Accelerate development across the company with faster, safer, and more frequent deploys

Meaningfully improve developer happiness and productivity across the company with better development tools and workflows

Contribute directly to the bottom line with cost savings initiatives and optimizations
Catch errors and performance issues early with automated monitoring and alerting
Maintain and improve security across our infrastructure including firewall rules, access control, audit logging, and disaster recovery.

Our Stack:

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kubernetes (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
Home Brew Deployment Orchestrator (Python)
Infrastructure as Code in Terraform and Helm
Cockroach DB for storage
Github for version control and CI/CD
Python, Bash, and Docker for local development workflows and CI/CD jobs
Tens of containerized microservices running our application code, written in Java +

SpringBoot

About You:

You have 4+ years experience in a devops or infrastructure role. Software engineering experience overall would be a plus.
Experience working as an SRE would be a positive, a desire to operate in that space will be critical.
You have experience and comfort with POSIX-based operating systems
You must have strong experience with operating a Kubernetes cluster in production

You have experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Helm and Terraform or their substitutes

You understand how networked services in the cloud work: VPC, IP, TCP, DNS,

HTTP, etc.

You abhor repetitive manual processes and are excited to automate them away
You have a sixth sense for spotting waste (in money, time, CPU cycles) and eliminating it
You learn quickly, regardless of the languages and technologies used
You are a strong communicator

While we are located in and around the GTA, this is a remote position and we don’t mind where you are located. Enjoying your work and having fun is important to us - we plan social functions and would want you to be involved in deciding what we do and when!

Compensation is dependent on experience and consists of salary and stock options.

Join our team, and leave your mark.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $135,000.00-$145,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Dental care
Disability insurance
Extended health care
Paid time off
Stock options
Vision care
Work from home

Flexible Language Requirement:

French not required

Schedule:

Monday to Friday
On call
Weekend availability

Work Location: Remote

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