DevOps Engineer (Vac DST)

<h3 id="About-Logos-λ" class="part" data-startline="3" data-endline="3">About Logos (λ)</h3> <p class="part" data-startline="5" data-endline="5"><a href="https://logos.co/">Logos (λ)</a> is a movement of technologists, creatives, strategists, and activists working together to build a sovereign, people-owned technology stack that revitalises civil society and protects digital liberties at scale.</p> <p class="part" data-startline="7" data-endline="7">This position is within the IFT Technical Services (IFT-TS) Distributed Systems Testing (DST) Team, a team that primarily supports Logos, while also contributing to other IFT projects.</p> <h3 id="The-role" class="part" data-startline="9" data-endline="9">The role</h3> <p class="part" data-startline="11" data-endline="12">We are seeking an experienced Distributed Systems Evaluation Engineer to join the Institute of Free Technology - Technical Services, on the Distributed Systems Testing (IFT-TS DST) team. This role focuses on rigorously assessing the performance and reliability of IFT projects at scale, where Logos (λ) is one of them.<br>Logos (λ) technology stack is composed of 3 main components:</p> <ul class="part" data-startline="13" data-endline="16"> <li class="" data-startline="13" data-endline="13"><strong>Logos (λ) Blockchain</strong>: Advanced privacy for a new era of decentralised applications and social institutions.</li> <li class="" data-startline="14" data-endline="14"><strong>Logos (λ) Messaging</strong>: Private peer‑to‑peer communication that resists surveillance and censorship.</li> <li class="" data-startline="15" data-endline="16"><strong>Logos (λ) Storage</strong>: Secure decentralised storage enabling fully decentralised apps and file sharing.</li> </ul> <p class="part" data-startline="17" data-endline="19">We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to join our Distributed Systems Testing (DST) team.<br>You’ll be responsible for designing and executing comprehensive evaluation strategies, leveraging both large-scale lab deployments and protocol behavior modeling scripts. Your expertise will be crucial in analyzing these complex distributed systems, automating intricate test scenarios, and providing in-depth insights into system behaviors.<br>Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll troubleshoot complex issues and translate technical data into actionable recommendations. Proficiency in containerization, cloud technologies, and distributed systems principles is essential.</p> <h3 id="Key-responsibilities" class="part" data-startline="22" data-endline="22">Key responsibilities</h3> <ul class="part" data-startline="24" data-endline="31"> <li class="" data-startline="24" data-endline="24">Design, configure, and optimize Kubernetes clusters to support large-scale experiments and benchmarks of P2P technologies.</li> <li class="" data-startline="25" data-endline="25">Continuously improve cluster scalability and resource utilization, enabling increasingly complex deployments and experiments.</li> <li class="" data-startline="26" data-endline="26">Set up, maintain, and optimize supporting infrastructure such as monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, etc.).</li> <li class="" data-startline="27" data-endline="27">Collaborate with DST researchers and engineers to streamline experimentation workflows and make analysis easier and more reproducible.</li> <li class="" data-startline="28" data-endline="28">Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows to increase reliability and reduce overhead.</li> <li class="" data-startline="29" data-endline="29">Troubleshoot, profile, and tune distributed workloads to ensure accurate and performant benchmarking.</li> <li class="" data-startline="30" data-endline="31">Identify, reproduce, and debug complex issues in distributed systems, working closely with Logos development teams.</li> </ul> <h3 id="You-ideally-will-have" class="part" data-startline="32" data-endline="32">You ideally will have</h3> <ul class="part" data-startline="34" data-endline="43"> <li class="" data-startline="34" data-endline="34">Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production or research environments.</li> <li class="" data-startline="35" data-endline="35">Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking (especially relevant to distributed/P2P systems).</li> <li class="" data-startline="36" data-endline="36">Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaLogs, etc.).</li> <li class="" data-startline="37" data-endline="37">Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.).</li> <li class="" data-startline="38" data-endline="38">Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (ideally Python).</li> <li class="" data-startline="39" data-endline="39">Interest in or experience with distributed systems, P2P networks, or blockchain technologies.</li> <li class="" data-startline="40" data-endline="40">Experience with networks and systems programming.</li> <li class="" data-startline="41" data-endline="41">Excellent written and conversational communication skills.</li> <li class="" data-startline="42" data-endline="43">Alignment with our core values and principles.</li> </ul> <h3 id="Bonus-points" class="part" data-startline="44" data-endline="44">Bonus points</h3> <ul class="part" data-startline="45" data-endline="49"> <li class="" data-startline="45" data-endline="45">Hands-on experience with libp2p or projects in the Logos collective.</li> <li class="" data-startline="46" data-endline="46">Background in performance benchmarking, scalability testing, or systems research.</li> <li class="" data-startline="47" data-endline="47">Contributions to open source projects.</li> <li class="" data-startline="48" data-endline="49">Experience working for an open-source organization.</li> </ul> <h3 id="Interview-Process" class="part" data-startline="50" data-endline="50">Interview Process</h3> <ul class="part" data-startline="52" data-endline="55"> <li class="" data-startline="52" data-endline="52">Interview with our POps team</li> <li class="" data-startline="53" data-endline="53">Interview with team member from the IFT-TS DST team</li> <li class="" data-startline="54" data-endline="54">Take-home assignment and discussion of results</li> <li class="" data-startline="55" data-endline="55">Interview with IFT-TS team lead</li> </ul>