About The Job:
Join Tether and shape the future of digital finance. At Tether, we’re not just building products; we’re pioneering a global financial revolution. Our innovative solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. Transparency is the bedrock of everything we do, ensuring trust in every transaction.
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We're seeking an experienced Senior Systems Administrator to architect, deploy, and maintain mission-critical infrastructure for our Tether Data Division. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with a security-first mindset.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain high-availability infrastructure solutions at scale with hundreds of servers.
- Orchestrate deployments and updates across our infrastructure.
- Implement and maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems.
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance.
- Conduct internal security audits and implement hardening measures.
- Provide technical mentorship to junior team members.
Requirements:
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Experience managing mission-critical systems with 99.99% uptime requirements.
- Excellent documentation and communication skills.
- Proven track record of incident management and resolution.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a global team.
- Strong security, threat detection, and mitigation experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Linux systems administration.
- Strong expertise in:
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Container orchestration (Docker/Podman)
- GPU container optimization and management
- Virtualization platforms (QEMU/KVM)
- Network architecture (VPN, SDN, Load Balancing)
- Security practices and infrastructure hardening
- NodeJS application deployment and scaling
- Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitLab / Github CI)
- Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
- Version control systems (Git)
- Usage of FIDO2 and Yubikeys for server administration
Language Requirements:
- Excellent communication skills in English are essential.
Location:
100% Remote - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Work Conditions:
Full-time
