Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Government Systems

Chainalysis Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote - USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead the design, evolution, and operational excellence of RKE2 Kubernetes clusters across development, acceptance, and production environments, including upgrades, capacity planning, networking strategy, and resilience improvements.
• Architect and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform to provision and manage AWS-based environments, developing reusable modules and enforcing consistent patterns across multi-environment deployments.
• Own the end-to-end CI/CD platform built on GitHub Actions, designing pipeline architecture, optimizing build performance, and ensuring reliable, secure, and staged release flows through all environments.
• Drive GitOps-based delivery using Flux CD by establishing standards for Helm charts and Kustomize overlays, ensuring consistent cluster state reconciliation and minimizing configuration drift across production and air-gapped systems.
• Define and enforce container image lifecycle policies including building, signing, storing, and distributing OCI-compatible images across multiple registries for diverse deployment targets with strict access controls.
• Eliminate operational toil through systemic automation of environment provisioning, configuration management, and deployment workflows, reducing manual intervention and improving team velocity.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Humio, owning dashboards, runbooks, and leading post-incident reviews to enhance platform reliability.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between product engineering teams and the Government Systems infrastructure platform, unblocking integrations, troubleshooting complex environment issues, and advocating for infrastructure best practices.
• Own the security posture of the deployment platform by managing secrets, certificates, RBAC policies, and security configurations to meet stringent compliance and operational security requirements for government and high-security customers.
• Mentor and grow junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, design discussions, and active knowledge sharing to elevate the team’s technical capabilities and culture.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Security, Compliance, and Customer Success teams to align infrastructure design with regulatory obligations, customer needs, and product roadmap demands.
• Ensure the deployment platform supports air-gapped and highly restricted environments, enabling Chainalysis Reactor to operate reliably in government networks with limited connectivity and strict access controls.
• Proactively identify failure modes, implement preventative automation, and design systems with resilience as a core principle to prevent recurring issues before they impact customers.
• Maintain and enhance operational documentation, including architecture diagrams, runbooks, and incident playbooks, ensuring knowledge retention and scalable onboarding across time zones.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of infrastructure standards by evaluating new tools, refining processes, and introducing innovations that increase efficiency, security, and scalability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for the deployment platform, ensuring rapid resolution of critical issues while maintaining service levels for government and high-security customers.
• Advocate for developer experience by improving tooling, reducing cognitive load in deployment workflows, and ensuring self-service capabilities within the infrastructure platform.
• Support the adoption of FIPS, FedRAMP, or IL-level security standards by designing infrastructure components that align with compliance frameworks required by U.S. government customers.
• Manage Linux-based systems (RHEL, Rocky Linux, Amazon Linux) with expertise in networking, storage, systemd, performance tuning, and shell scripting to ensure stable and optimized runtime environments.
• Work closely with product teams to integrate PostgreSQL stateful workloads, Kafka message brokers, and other data services into Kubernetes environments with robust backup, recovery, and scaling strategies.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production at scale — cluster lifecycle management, Helm, networking, persistent storage, performance tuning, and complex workload troubleshooting
• Expert-level proficiency with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure across multiple environments, including module design and state management strategies
• Strong Linux systems administration skills (RHEL or similar — networking, storage, systemd, performance analysis, shell scripting)
• Extensive experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar), with a focus on reliability, speed, and developer experience
• Deep familiarity with AWS services commonly used in infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, EBS, Lambda, and related networking and security services)
• A strong operational mindset — you take ownership of reliability, think about failure modes proactively, and build automation to prevent recurring issues before they impact customers

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work flexibility across the USA
• Collaboration with global teams in Denmark, UK, Canada, and Israel
• High-impact work supporting government and high-security customers in the cryptocurrency ecosystem
• Opportunity to mentor engineers and shape the technical direction of a critical infrastructure platform

Skills & Technologies

Python

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

DevOps

Senior

Remote

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About Chainalysis Inc.

Chainalysis Inc. provides blockchain data analytics and compliance software to governments, banks, and private-sector clients. Its platform traces cryptocurrency transactions to investigate illicit activity, assess risk, and ensure regulatory compliance. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, the company indexes on-chain data across multiple blockchains, offering investigation, risk management, and compliance tools that help institutions transact safely with digital assets and support law enforcement in tracking ransomware, money laundering, and other financial crimes.

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