We’re looking for a hands-on Head of Infrastructure to own and lead all things DevOps, infrastructure, and reliability at Noves.

The job is fully remote. We're currently looking for someone in either an American or European timezone.

This is a senior, highly technical role: you’ll be the person ultimately responsible for keeping our systems secure, scalable, observable, and fast. You’ll spend a decent chunk of your time designing architecture, and the rest actually building, shipping, and debugging systems.

You’ll lead a small infra team:

• You – Head of Infrastructure (this role)
• 1 DevOps Engineer
• 1 infra-focused co-founder; the original architect of the company's infrastructure

We are a startup with mission-critical systems. That means we need someone who:

• Is not a clock-puncher
• Is comfortable with longer hours when needed
• Is willing and able to jump in during off-hours incidents or emergencies
• Takes full ownership of infrastructure, including proactive work (monitoring, careful systems design, etc) and is not just used to “reactive” fire-fighting

If that sounds like you, keep reading.

What you'll do

Own Noves infrastructure end-to-end

• Lead architecture and implementation for our Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, networking, observability, and security.
• Define standards, best practices, and infrastructure roadmaps.

Lead and grow the infra function

• Manage and mentor other DevOps engineers.
• Collaborate closely with the founders on decisions and long-term strategy.
• Work directly with backend teams to shape how services are built and deployed.

Be deeply hands-on

• Design, deploy, and maintain services on Kubernetes.
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, etc.).
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate everything you reasonably can.

Run our Linux + blockchain infra like a pro

• Administer Ubuntu VMs and servers, including ones running blockchain RPC nodes.
• Own system-level concerns: storage, backups, logging, monitoring, security hardening, and performance tuning.
• You don’t need previous blockchain experience, but prior experience running complex Linux services is essential. Blockchain node ops is a plus.

Administer our Kubernetes clusters

• You must have expert-level knowledge and experiencing in administering Kubernetes clusters across major cloud providers (we use Azure primarily, with some small footprint in AWS)

Own system-level concerns: storage, backups, logging, monitoring, security hardening, and performance tuning.

• Ensure reliability & performance
• Define and track SLOs, capacity, and incident response processes.
• Troubleshoot production issues across the stack (infra, network, containers, code) and coordinate resolution.
• Lead post-mortems and implement preventative improvements.

Partner with leadership

• Work closely with company leadership on infra budget (cost vs performance), risk, and roadmap.
• Provide clear visibility into system health, incident risk, and major infra decisions.

Our stack & environment

You don’t need to know every single tool on day one, but you should be strong across most of these and able to pick up the rest quickly.

Cloud & platform

• Azure stack (core cloud provider)
• Docker
• Kubernetes (multi-cluster, microservices-heavy)
• Helm
• Flux
• Keda
• Prometheus / Grafana
• Cloud networking (VNets, peering, firewalling, VPN, private endpoints)
• Service mesh (Istio or similar experience)

Azure services

• Azure Functions
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure DevOps pipelines
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Application Insights
• Entra ID

Linux & traditional sysadmin

• Ubuntu server administration
• Bash scripting
• Systemd
• Storage, backups, file systems
• Security hardening, SSH, firewalling, and basic network tooling (iptables, tcpdump, etc.)

Databases & data

• Relational DBs: MySQL, Postgres
• DuckDB
• Experience managing DBs with hundreds of millions of rows in at least one of the above
• Nice to have: data warehouses / big-data tooling (Azure Data Lakes, Snowflake, etc.)

Networking & load balancing

• Nginx and/or HAProxy (we use both extensively)
• SSL/TLS, reverse proxies, rate limiting, caching, etc.

Languages & automation

• Strong programming background – you write code, not just YAML
• Github Actions CI
• Python

About you

• You’ve designed and operated complex, cloud-native systems at scale.
• You’ve previously been a senior or staff-level DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure engineer and are ready to step into (or already operating in) a Head of Infra capacity.
• You’re comfortable being the final escalation point for infra issues.
• You are calm under pressure and know how to prioritize in an incident.
• You’re opinionated about good practices (security, observability, IaC, reliability) but pragmatic about trade-offs.
• You enjoy working closely with developers and leadership, not in a silo.
• You’re aligned with startup reality: sometimes things break at inconvenient times, and you’re willing to jump in and fix them.

Big pluses

• Experience deploying and maintaining blockchain RPC nodes (Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, etc.).
• Prior experience in blockchain / Web3 infra more broadly.
• Experience designing and managing large-scale data pipelines / warehouses.

About Noves

At Noves, our mission is to make Web3 data accessible to everyone.

We build software that interprets the incredibly complex world of blockchain data and turns it into something humans and businesses can actually use. The problem space changes and grows constantly, so there’s never a dull moment—and we like it that way.

• We are a startup: we move fast and ship daily.
• We care deeply about craft, ownership, and impact.
• We are passionate about blockchain and its potential for positive change.
• Blockchain experience is a plus, not a requirement. If you’re new to it but excited, you’ll have every opportunity to become an expert.

We offer:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity allocations
• Remote-first, no-drama culture
• Flexible vacation policy
• Challenging problems, real autonomy, and a direct impact on the company’s success

How to Apply

In your cover letter, make sure to include answers to the following questions. If you don't, you'll be automatically disqualified.

• You have to design a new infra setup for a set of microservices (HTTP APIs), a couple of databases (Postgres & MySQL), a messaging broker, and two RPC nodes serving raw blockchain data. All must be observable, resilient, and reasonably cost-efficient. Describe the high-level architecture (Kubernetes vs VMs, networking, observability, backups) and what you’d prioritize in the first 90 days.

• Tell us about the last time you had to work outside normal hours to fix a production issue. What happened and what did you change to reduce the chance it happens again?



• Have you ever deployed or maintained any blockchain RPC nodes or validators? If yes, which chains and in what context?