HIRE

Hire senior DevOps & blockchain developers

Vetted DevOps, SRE, and blockchain engineers — from Kubernetes platform builds to Solidity contracts and audited on-chain systems.

EXPERTISE

What our platform & chain engineers bring to your team

Every engineer we place has run infrastructure at scale or shipped audited on-chain code — not just watched from a whiteboard.

Kubernetes platforms

Multi-tenant EKS, GKE, and AKS clusters with policy, autoscaling, and cost controls that survive production audits.

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Buildkite pipelines with SBOM, signing, environment promotion, and rollback baked in.

Observability & SRE

Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog with SLOs, error budgets, and runbooks that on-call actually opens at 3am.

Smart contracts

Solidity contracts in Foundry and Hardhat with property-based tests, invariants, and gas-optimized production patterns.

Contract audits

Threat modeling, formal specifications, and audit remediation — from prep through published report.

Cross-chain integration

Bridges, message-passing, and multichain deployment patterns with clear failure modes and replay protection.

TECHNOLOGY

The platform & chain stack they work in

The tools our engineers are fluent in — deployed against real production traffic and real on-chain value.

Kubernetes Docker Terraform ArgoCD GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana Datadog Solidity Foundry Hardhat OpenZeppelin Ethers.js The Graph
WHAT THEY BUILD

The systems our engineers ship in production

The types of platforms and on-chain systems our engineers have delivered under real audit and real load.

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Multi-cloud platform builds

Landing zones on AWS, GCP, and Azure with IAM, networking, and cost guardrails ready for security review.

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Kubernetes migrations

VM- or Heroku-shaped workloads moved to Kubernetes with zero-downtime cutover, real SLOs, and clean runbooks.

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Observability rollouts

End-to-end tracing, metrics, and log correlation — with dashboards on-call engineers actually use during incidents.

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DeFi contract development

Staking, lending, and AMM contracts with formal invariants, fuzz tests, and an audit-ready posture from day one.

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Contract audits

Internal audit passes, threat models, and remediation of external audit findings — with test coverage that stays honest.

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Cross-chain apps

Apps deployed across EVM chains with a shared indexer, unified frontend, and clear ownership of bridged state.

HIRING PROCESS

From requirements call to first production change

A tight four-step flow — no résumé shopping, no vendor friction, engineers shipping infra changes within a week.

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Requirements call

A 45-minute call with our engineering lead to scope skills, seniority, tooling, and the systems the hire will own.

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Shortlist in 48 hours

Two or three matched engineer profiles delivered within 48 hours, each with recent shipped work you can review.

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Technical interviews

Interview shortlisted engineers directly — IaC design, incident postmortems, or a Solidity code-review exercise.

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Start within a week

Selected engineer joins your Slack, repos, and standups. Contract, invoicing, and onboarding handled by us.

WHY HIRE THIS WAY

What you get that in-house hiring misses

Platform and blockchain talent is scarce and expensive. Ours starts moving your infra and contracts this week.

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Real production reliability

Our platform engineers have carried pagers, run postmortems, and owned SLOs — not just written Terraform.

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Audited-first contract delivery

Our contract engineers write tests, invariants, and threat models from day one — not after an audit says to.

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Senior-only engineers

Every engineer we place has shipped production platforms or on-chain code. No juniors billed as seniors.

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Own your platform & contracts

IaC, dashboards, runbooks, and contract code all live in your repos. Your team can operate what we built.

FEATURED WORK

An on-chain system built by the engineers we place

An audited DeFi platform delivered by the same bench you would be hiring from.

ChainVault case study Web3 • DeFi

ChainVault

A scalable DeFi staking platform with audited smart contracts.

Audited contracts • 0 critical findings • 3x faster settlement

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WHY ZIKOSOFT

Why teams hire platform & chain engineers through us

A senior bench, direct engagement, and shipping experience against real audits and real on-call rotations.

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Engineers who have been on-call and audited

Our engineers have carried pagers, written postmortems, and shipped contracts through external audits with zero criticals.

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Direct access to the engineers

You interview, choose, and work with the engineers themselves. No layers of account management or handoffs.

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Vetted for design, not just cloud certs

We test for system design, failure modes, and threat modeling — not just whether they memorized an AWS exam.

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You keep the platform and the keys

IaC in your repos, cloud accounts in your name, contract deployer keys in your vaults. No dependence on us to keep it running.

FAQ

Common questions about hiring platform & chain engineers

Practical answers on seniority, engagement, timelines, and how our engineers plug into your team.

DevOps and blockchain in the same page — are these the same people?
No. We place either — DevOps and SRE engineers for platform work, and Solidity engineers for on-chain systems. A few of our platform engineers also run chain infrastructure, but that is a separate placement.
Can your engineers work through an audit process?
Yes. Our contract engineers have shipped code through external audits (Trail of Bits, OpenZeppelin, Consensys-style firms), including remediation and post-audit hardening.
Do your engineers work in my time zone?
Yes. We match to your time zone and working hours, with at least four hours of daily overlap for standups, reviews, and pairing.
Who owns the infrastructure, IaC, and contracts?
You do. All work-for-hire clauses assign IP to you on delivery. Cloud accounts, IaC repos, and contract deployment keys stay with you.
Can engineers help with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 evidence?
Yes. Our platform engineers have supported SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits, including access reviews, change management evidence, and control documentation.
Can engineers work through my staffing vendor or MSA?
Yes. We can work through an existing MSA, tier-two staffing arrangement, or contract directly. Whichever your legal team prefers.

Need a platform or chain engineer on your team this week?

Tell us the system and the stack. We'll come back with a shortlist within 48 hours.

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