Blockchain Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer

Westbury Partners – Sydney NSW

Full time

7d ago , from E-Financial Careers Australia

Build and operate high-availability blockchain infrastructure, managing validators, nodes, security, monitoring, automation, and distributed systems while supporting emerging technologies across a fast-paced global environment.

What You'll Do:

- Build, manage, and maintain sophisticated proof-of-stake validator infrastructure.
- Operate critical on-chain infrastructure including validators, light clients, and RPC nodes.
- Improve monitoring and alerting to enable rapid infrastructure issue resolution.
- Work with distributed systems, consensus algorithms, cryptography, and emerging blockchain technologies.
- Strengthen infrastructure security through key management, server hardening, intrusion detection, and security best practices.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams to maintain high availability.
- Contribute to external partnerships and blockchain community knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Designing, deploying, and maintaining complex blockchain infrastructure across cloud and bare-metal environments.
- Managing proof-of-stake infrastructure and supporting blockchain networks such as Solana or Ethereum.
- Developing and maintaining automation using Terraform, Ansible, Salt, and Bash.
- Operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure and Linux systems.
- Monitoring infrastructure using Prometheus, Alertmanager, and related observability technologies.
- Troubleshooting networking, distributed systems, and production infrastructure challenges.
- Evaluating emerging blockchain technologies and incorporating valuable developments into infrastructure strategies.
- Applying strong security practices to infrastructure, cryptographic keys, and production systems.
- Supporting high-availability operations across a globally distributed environment.




- Engaging with external partners and technical communities to share knowledge and explore opportunities.

Why Join Us:

- Work directly withcutting-edge blockchain infrastructure and distributed systems .
- Solve technically demanding problems involving consensus, cryptography, networking, and high availability.
- Gain hands‑on exposure to rapidly evolving technologies across the blockchain ecosystem.
- Work across both cloud and bare‑metal infrastructure at significant scale.
- Join a fast‑moving, technically ambitious environment where experimentation and continuous learning are encouraged.
- Contribute to partnerships and initiatives with tangible commercial impact.

About You:

- Passionate about blockchain technology with a strong desire to continuously learn.
- Previous experience operating proof-of-stake blockchain infrastructure, ideally with Solana or Ethereum.
- Deep understanding of Linux, Kubernetes, networking, monitoring, and distributed systems.
- Solid experience with Prometheus and Alertmanager or comparable monitoring platforms.
- Experienced across cloud and bare‑metal infrastructure environments.
- Proficient with Terraform, Ansible, Salt, or similar infrastructure automation tools.
- Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complex production systems.
- Highly proficient with Bash and experienced with Python, Golang, Rust, or another programming language.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, key management, hardening, and intrusion detection.
- Familiarity with on‑chain trading, DeFi, and risk management is advantageous.
- Comfortable working quickly, independently, and across competing priorities.
- Reliable, adaptable, and effective within a globally distributed team.

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📌 Blockchain Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Westbury Partners
📍 Sydney