VP, Site Reliability Engineer

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
Senior level
Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency
We are the bridge between the crypto and the institutional worlds.
The Role
The VP, Site Reliability Engineer will architect and maintain AWS infrastructure, optimize container workloads, and drive automation and reliability initiatives. Responsibilities include migration from VMs to containers, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.
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Who We Are:
Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world – and we’re building the products and services to make that future a reality.
 
Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading, investment banking, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing, addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S.
 
We work at the intersection of finance and technology, helping institutions, startups, and developers navigate a digitally native economy. Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz, our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI.
 
Galaxy is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
 
To learn more about our businesses and products, visit www.galaxy.com.

What We Value:

We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

  • Seek Excellence.
  • Be Selective To Be Effective.
  • Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
  • Disagree Transparently.
  • Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
  • Build Dream Teams.

Who You Are: 

You are a Senior SRE specializing in AWS and containerized infrastructure. You thrive working hands-on, tackling migration from legacy VMs to container ecosystems with a focus on EKS, automation, and reliability. 


What You’ll Do: 

Reliability Engineering:  

  • Architect, deploy, and maintain robust, scalable, secure AWS-based infrastructure.
  • Drive adoption and optimization of EKS and Kubernetes for containerized workloads.
  • Support migration initiatives, moving workloads from legacy VMs to containers in AWS.
  • Implement and fine-tune SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets to balance innovation and stability.
  • Collaborate on best practices with Security and Engineering teams for workload reliability. 

Automation & Infrastructure as Code: 

  • Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform; maintain compliant, repeatable environments.
  • Enhance CI/CD pipelines for efficient, secure, and reliable cloud delivery.
  • Develop and refine automated solutions for autoscaling, failover, and disaster recovery. 

 Observability & Incident Response 

  • Design and implement metrics, logging, and tracing tools (Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
  • Set up robust monitoring and alerting to proactively detect and address failures.
  • Lead incident analysis and post-mortems; drive improvements in operational playbooks. 

 AWS & Cloud SME 

  • Serve as a subject matter expert for AWS, EKS, and cloud-native tooling within the SRE team.
  • Optimize AWS resources, cost management, and resiliency best practices.
  • Ensure secure key management and regulatory compliance for decentralized workloads. 

 What We’re Looking For: 

  • 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering (IC capacity preferred).
  • Deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and containerization.
  • Extensive IaC experience (Terraform) and cloud-native automation.
  • Proven track record migrating VM-based workloads to containers in AWS at scale.
  • Strong experience with observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and incident management abilities.
  • Clear communicator who thrives in team environments, collaborating cross-functionally. 

Bonus Points: 

  • Experience supporting blockchain infrastructure is a strong plus. 

Galaxy respects diversity and seeks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived age, race, color, creed, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital or partnership or caregiver status, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military or veteran status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, or other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete the application process or to participate in an interview, please contact [email protected]

Top Skills

AWS
Datadog
Eks
Kubernetes
Opentelemetry
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
335 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Galaxy Digital (TSX: GLXY) is a tech-driven financial services and investment management firm that provides institutions and direct clients with a full suite of financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem. Galaxy Digital operates five synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining. Galaxy Digital's CEO and Founder is Mike Novogratz. Galaxy Digital is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands (registered office), and New Jersey.

Our mission is to drive systems change through technology. Today, we are primarily focused on digital assets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, and how these technological innovations will drastically alter the way we store and transfer value.

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