As DevOps Lead, you will drive our DevOps strategy, ensuring the reliability and scalability of Axelar’s infrastructure. You’ll lead a team of engineers, fostering a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to support development and production environments, optimizing deployment pipelines and improving system reliability.

Your responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, guiding best practices in infrastructure automation, security, and reliability.
• Own and enhance our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth and automated deployments across multiple blockchain ecosystems.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across the stack using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and other monitoring solutions.
• Optimize infrastructure for scalability, security, and cost-efficiency, leveraging Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud services like AWS.
• Drive automation initiatives, minimizing manual operations and improving deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve DevOps practices, troubleshooting issues and enhancing development workflows.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of our services, proactively identifying and addressing infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies in Web3 DevOps, continuously improving our stack to support blockchain interoperability.

Your profile

• Proven experience in DevOps with a strong background in infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and cloud services.
• Experience leading a DevOps function or team, mentoring engineers, and driving strategic improvements.
• Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar).
• Strong scripting, automation and IaC skills (Bash, Python, Javascript, Terraform, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or similar).
• Understanding of blockchain networks, DeFi protocols, or decentralized infrastructure is a plus.
• Self-starter with a problem-solving mindset, thriving in a fast-paced, distributed team.

Why us?

• Autonomous, distributed environment with the opportunity to work collaboratively in a diverse team worldwide.
• The scope to contribute to high-impact work and make a difference in a decentralized protocol.
• The chance to challenge yourself whilst learning heaps of stuff in the process.
• Unlimited time off throughout the year to rest and recharge.
• Competitive compensation with stock options, experiencing growth from the initial phase.

About us

Interop Labs builds interoperability technology.  Interoperability between blockchains is crucial technology infrastructure for the growth of Web3 and the advancement of internet technology as a whole. Interop Labs is the initial developer of Axelar Network - the programmable Web3 interoperability platform, scaling the next generation of internet applications to billions of users. Axelar network’s key attributes are programmability, security and scalability.

Axelar has raised over $100 million from leading VCs including DCVC, Galaxy, Polychain, Dragonfly, Coinbase, and more. Its diverse partner ecosystem spans industry heavyweights such as Ripple, Circle, dYdX, Uniswap, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, and others—underscoring Axelar’s unique market position and opportunity in unifying stacks between traditional finance and decentralized ecosystems. Axelar protocol was founded by Sergey Gorbunov (MIT PhD, UWaterloo Professor) and Georgios Vlachos (MIT MSc, Math Gold Medalist), who previously helped to build and launch Algorand.