Senior DevOps Engineer

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).
• Proficiency with at least one development language (e.g., bash, Python, Go).
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and production environments.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Desirable

• Experience working within crypto organisation
• Experience in Financial Services

Why Copper?

At Copper, we keep innovation, openness, and curiosity at the centre of everything we do. Here, bold ideas get the spotlight, learning is constant, and diversity shapes our team from the ground up.

Jump into a fast-moving, dynamic team that loves a challenge and knows how to have fun along the way. Collaboration is just as important as results—you’ll be surrounded by smart, driven colleagues in London and across our APAC, Switzerland, UAE, and US offices.

• Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the adaptability of flexibly working.
• Diversity and inclusion matter to us – they’re woven into Copper life. From employee-led groups like Women at Copper to a committee focused on community and wellbeing, you’ll have a network that supports you from day one. Everyone voice matters.

If you’re looking to ramp up your career, or keen to do something new in your field, with us, you’ll keep moving forward.

Ready to make your mark, keep growing, and join a supportive, dynamic team? Copper’s the place.

The interview process at Copper

Our interview process is designed to be thoughtful, efficient, and engaging. While specific steps may vary slightly depending on the role, the typical journey includes:

• Initial Screening A brief conversation with our Talent Acquisition team to explore your background, motivations, and alignment with the role.
• Technical Interview A virtual session conducted via Microsoft Teams, where you'll engage with team members to discuss relevant skills, problem-solving approaches, and technical experience.
• In-Person Interview A conversation focused on team dynamics, collaboration style, and any final technical questions. This may be with cross-functional peers or leadership.

Additional steps may be added based on the role's complexity or seniority. We aim to keep the process transparent and respectful of your time.

Benefits

In return for everything you can bring to Copper, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and welcoming working environment. Some of our key UK benefits are highlighted below:

• Paid Time Off - A minimum of 35 days of paid time off per year, inclusive of annual leave and public holidays. Employees also receive one additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance - Inclusive of dental, optical, audiology, and mental health coverage, with medical history disregarded
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Pension Contributions - Includes an enhanced employer matching contribution
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.

Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. So, bring us your experience, perspectives, and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer, please let us know if you have a disability. If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process, then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.