Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Role type: Permanent 

Location: London (preferred)

 

About us:

Founded in 2013, GSR is a leading market-making and programmatic trading firm in the exciting and fast-evolving digital assets world.  With over 250 employees across different jurisdictions, we provide billions of dollars of liquidity to protocols and venues on a daily basis. We build long-term relationships with cryptocurrency communities and traditional investors by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to their specific needs.

 

GSR works with token issuers, traders, investors, miners, and more than 30 cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. In volatile markets we are a trusted partner to crypto native builders and to those exploring the industry for the first time. 

 

Our team of veteran finance and technology executives from Goldman Sachs, Two Sigma, and Citadel, among others, has developed one of the world’s most robust trading platforms designed to navigate issues unique to the digital asset markets. We have continuously improved our technology throughout our history, allowing for our clients to scale and execute their strategies with the highest level of efficiency.

 

Working at GSR is an opportunity to be deeply embedded in every major sector of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. 

 

About the role: 

 

We are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer who has expertise in both Information Security and development. The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining secure cloud infrastructure and applications, leveraging hands-on experience with cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and security protocols.

 

Responsibilities:

 

  • Design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
  • Document cloud infrastructure and application designs, configurations, and procedures.
  • Implement and maintain security policies, standards, and procedures for compliance.
  • Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to identify and mitigate security risks.
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to remediate security issues.
  • Automate security controls and processes using scripting and programming languages.
  • Monitor and respond to security incidents, alerts, and ongoing threats.

 

Requirements:

 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience in cloud infrastructure design and implementation with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
  • Knowledge of authentication, authorisation and accounting (IAM, Federation, RBAC, service accounts) for public cloud and kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of container hardening and implementation within kubernetes.
  • Strong experience in DevOps methodologies and automation, including source control management, continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, and containerization, with expertise in authentication and authorization for public cloud and Kubernetes, container hardening, and Kubernetes implementation.
  • Experience in information security, including vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and implementing and automating security controls, with expertise in security protocols (TLS, SSL, SSH) and frameworks (NIST, CIS, ISO 27001).
  • Good understanding of blockchain fundamentals, including wallets, smart contracts, protocol design, and decentralized finance is a plus.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills, with a do-it-yourself attitude and a pragmatic approach suitable for a startup environment. 
  • Able to work independently with minimal supervision and drive projects to production.

 

What we offer: 

 

  • A highly collaborative and transparent firm culture founded on Integrity, Innovation and Performance. 
  • The ability to effect change and actively shape the regulatory strategy of the firm.
  • Competitive Salary with two discretionary bonus’ payments a year.
  • Benefits such as Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Retirement Planning, 30 days holiday and free lunches when in the office. 
  • Hybrid working pattern in all of our offices from London, the US, Singapore, Zug and Malaga.
  • A Corporate and Social Responsibility program as well as charity fundraising matching and volunteer days.   
  • Immigration and relocation support where required.

 

GSR is proudly an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon any applicable legally protected characteristics such as race, religion, colour, country of origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression or age. We operate a meritocracy, all aspects of people engagement from the decision to hire or promote as well as our performance management process will be based on the business needs and individual merit, competence in the role. To apply, please contact recruiting@gsr.io.