Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Government Systems
Chainalysis3 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of RKE2 Kubernetes clusters across development, acceptance, and production environments, including upgrades, capacity planning, networking, and resilience.
- Architect and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code for AWS-based environments, including scalable modules and provisioning patterns.
- Own the GitHub Actions CI/CD platform, improving pipeline architecture, build performance, and staged release reliability.
- Drive Flux CD GitOps delivery standards using Helm charts and Kustomize overlays across clusters.
- Define container image lifecycle policies for building, signing, storing, and distributing images across OCI registries and deployment targets.
- Automate environment provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes to reduce operational toil.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, incident response, dashboards, runbooks, and post-incident reviews.
- Support product service teams integrating with the deployment pipeline and resolve complex environment issues.
- Manage secrets, certificates, RBAC policies, and other deployment-platform security configurations.
- Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Deep production Kubernetes experience at scale, including cluster lifecycle management, Helm, networking, persistent storage, performance tuning, and workload troubleshooting.
- Expert proficiency with Terraform for multi-environment cloud infrastructure, including module design and state management.
- Strong Linux systems administration skills with RHEL or similar, including networking, storage, systemd, performance analysis, and shell scripting.
- Extensive experience designing and maintaining reliable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Deep familiarity with AWS infrastructure services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, EBS, Lambda, and related networking and security services.
- Experience with Flux CD or ArgoCD, container registries and OCI artifact workflows, Kubernetes database management, Kafka or other message brokers, Ansible or similar automation tools, and Python is beneficial.
- Experience supporting strict security or compliance environments such as FedRAMP, FIPS, or IL environments is beneficial.
- Exposure to or interest in cryptocurrency technology is beneficial.
Benefits
- Candidates based in the EST timezone are highly prioritized due to collaboration with Europe.
- The role includes mentoring, pairing, code review, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
- The company supports workplace accommodations during the interview process.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonTerraform
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Chainalysis
Chainalysis offers cryptocurrency investigation and compliance solutions to global law enforcement agencies, regulators, and businesses as they work together to fight illicit cryptocurrency activity. Backed by Benchmark and other leading names in venture capital, Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains. For more information, visit: www.chainalysis.com