You will be joining the team that is building Chainlink in this newly created position as a Systems Admin
This role is very hands-on and is ideal for someone who has been a node or staking operator
You will be proactively monitoring alerts and perform manual monitoring and first-responder triage of issues
You will have exposure across the organization and a lot of opportunities to learn and grow
Your Impact
- Debug issues based on contextual knowledge of node operations and our feeds
- Perform required system maintenance operations, including making sure nodes are always updated, functional and have sufficient balances
- Act as escalation point for alerting from our incidence response team
- Actively track and analyze blockchain network activity such as gas fees, upcoming forks, and upgrades
- Maintaining data provider quality – understanding the value secured on behalf of users, and exercising your judgment to evaluate data quality, connecting node operators with the right API providers for the job
- Node operator quality – using your commercial and technical skills to monitor network health and ensure the highest service quality provision by node operators to users
Requirements
- 1+ years of sysadmin / DevOps experience or equivalent
- Experience running a blockchain node, knowing your way around the Ethereum ecosystem and using common blockchain explorer and smart contract tools
- Experience interfacing with nodes and blockchain-related services via RPC and the command line
- Hands on experience with JSON
- Have a strong respect for security requirements and implications in a blockchain environment
- Experience with scripting languages is a plus
- Experience supporting complex web applications/services and backend APIs on an AWS stack
- Familiarity with alerting, monitoring, visualization frameworks such as Prometheus, ELK stacks
- An analytical thinker able to take a bigger picture view of the ecosystem
- Experience with Bash, and/or any scripting languages is a plus