DevOps Engineer; Vac DST

Logos is a movement building a decentralized web technology stack focused on privacy, peer-to-peer communication, and secure storage. This Dev Ops Engineer role is within the Institute of Free Technology's Distributed Systems Testing team, responsible for designing and executing comprehensive evaluation strategies for large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on assessing performance and reliability of Logos protocols.

• Design, configure, and optimize Kubernetes clusters to support large-scale experiments and benchmarks of P2P technologies
• Set up, maintain, and optimize monitoring, logging, and observability stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki
• Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows using infrastructure-as-code tools to increase reliability and reduce overhead
• Troubleshoot, profile, and tune distributed workloads to ensure accurate and performant benchmarking
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to streamline experimentation workflows and improve reproducibility

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production or research environments
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, and networking principles relevant to distributed and P2P systems
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Victoria Logs
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools including Terraform, Ansible, and Helm
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language, preferably Python

• Hands-on experience with libp2p or projects in the Logos collective
• Background in performance benchmarking, scalability testing, or systems research
• Contributions to open source projects
• Experience working for an open-source organization