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Senior Blockchain DevOps Engineer - AVP Digital Assets
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What they do
A Blockchain Developer or Engineer maintains and supports distributed and decentralized blockchain-based networks or blockchain applications such as cryptocurrency exchange, payment processing, document sharing, and digital voting. Designs and deploys secure blockchain design patterns and solutions over geographically distributed networks using advanced technologies. May assist with infrastructure setup and testing for application transparency and security.
$126,998 / year median in New Jersey
+7% projected growth
Job Description
Accountabilities Build Engineering:
Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.Incident Management:
Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.Automation:
Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.Security:
Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.Teamwork:
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.Learning:
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth. Assistant Vice President Expectations To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.The four LEAD behaviours are:
L- Listen and be authentic, E
- Energise and inspire, A
- Align across the enterprise, D
- Develop others.
- our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset
- to Empower, Challenge and Drive
- the operating manual for how we behave. Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Blockchain DevOps Engineer
- AVP•Digital Assets.
- to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.
- AVP•Digital Assets, you should: Have experience building and operating DevOps capabilities for mission-critical production platforms, including CI/CD, release automation, environment management, infrastructure automation, and production deployment support Demonstrate hands-on experience deploying and operating blockchain infrastructure and wallet services, including validators, RPC services, bootnodes, transaction relayers, signing services, wallet APIs, and supporting middleware components Have practical expertise operating platforms within controlled on-premises and hybrid environments, including network segmentation, secrets management, certificate and PKI lifecycle management, firewall controls, infrastructure hardening, and secure service connectivity Be comfortable implementing end-to-end observability across blockchain and wallet service components, including metrics, logs, traces, transaction monitoring, node health, chain synchronization, signing workflows, service dashboards, and automated alerting Apply AI-assisted engineering, DevSecOps, and automation practices to improve deployment quality, accelerate troubleshooting, reduce operational risk, enhance release consistency, and support continuous improvement across BDAP delivery teams Other highly valued skills include: Experience supporting Ethereum, Solana, Besu, and other blockchain technologies, including node lifecycle management, protocol upgrades, chain-data storage performance, validator operations, and multi-chain platform support Knowledge of institutional wallet infrastructure, transaction authorization flows, signing services, key management integrations, custody workflows, and digital asset transaction orchestration Experience with Kubernetes, containers, Linux, Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, artifact repositories, API gateways, event streaming, and enterprise platform engineering patterns Understanding of digital asset use cases including tokenized deposits, stablecoins, digital cash, securities tokenization, wallet-driven settlement, and interoperability across open and permissioned networks Ability to work effectively across blockchain engineering, wallet engineering, cyber security, infrastructure, architecture, operations, risk, compliance, and business teams to deliver secure, observable, and resilient platform capabilities You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.