Senior DevOps Engineer

Copper
London, United Kingdom
Today
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
11 May 2026 (Today)

Benefits

25 days holiday Pension Private healthcare

Since being founded in 2018, Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody, collateral management, and prime services.

Led by Amar Kuchinad, Copper's Global CEO, the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Copper's offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology – the gold standard in secure custody. Copper’s multi-award winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralised exchanges, DeFi applications and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody.

Built on top of this state-of-the-art custody, ClearLoop is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering, connecting global exchanges, and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPC-secured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures, ClearLoop is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital.

In addition to industry-leading security certifications, Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A+ rated insurer, positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets.

Department/Team Purpose:

The Engineering department is the backbone of Copper; entrusted with the critical responsibility of building and securing the infrastructure that safeguards billions of dollars in digital assets. We operate at the intersection of traditional institutional finance and decentralized blockchain technology.

We believe the best infrastructure comes from curious minds working openly together. Our engineering organisation brings together people with diverse backgrounds and experiences who genuinely enjoy solving hard problems. We foster a blame-free, intellectually honest environment where you're encouraged to take thoughtful risks and think big. You'll have the autonomy to own meaningful projects while gaining the support you need to grow your skills and advance your career.

Role Purpose:

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps engineer at the intersection of software development and platform engineering. In this role, your focus will be enabling fast, reliable, and secure delivery of our systems, whilst continuously improving how our infrastructure is built and operated, including our blockchain environments.

Day-to-day, you’ll tackle platform and deployment challenges through pragmatic engineering and automation. You’ll build and operate scalable, self-service infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and blockchain platforms, including node provisioning, network deployment, and lifecycle management. You’ll optimise build and release pipelines, improve system resilience, and ensure ‘traditional’ and blockchain infrastructure can scale with the needs of the business.

You will collaborate closely with engineering and SRE teams, focusing on infrastructure as code, developer experience, and operational scalability across the engineering organisation, with ownership of the reliability and performance of blockchain nodes and supporting systems.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Building a fault-tolerant, geographically distributed infrastructure: support of multiple data centres, providing replication, sharding, auto balancing and failover.
  • Participating in deployment of services with strict availability requirements on a large-scale environment and working together with other Engineers to ensure our systems meet current and future demand.
  • Develop and maintain code for automated infrastructure management (DevOps, Infrastructure as Code) with the use of Ansible and Terraform.
  • Working collaboratively with the Backend Engineering team to increase our resilience through insightful systems and application metrics.
  • Improving our CI/CD pipeline to provide new integration vectors. Building and maintaining infrastructure for its own fleet of blockchain nodes (>25 layer 1 protocols now, and more to come)
  • On-Call support to ensure 24/7 availability of all systems.

Skills and Experience:

Essential

  • 5+ year's experience as a DevOps Engineer operating production-grade infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience running and maintaining blockchain infrastructure (e.g. node deployment, syncing, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting).
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) and automated environment provisioning.
  • Strong experience with containerisation and Kubernetes, including production operations and cluster management; EKS preferred.
  • Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and deployment tools such as ArgoCD.
  • Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, firewalls).
  • Experience implementing and operating secure systems (IAM, secrets management, network security controls, vulnerability management).

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