Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Government Systems

Chainalysis Inc.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer responsible for cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes operations at Chainalysis. Leading architectural decisions and mentoring engineers for high-security deployment platforms.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudEC2FluxJenkinsKubernetesLinuxShell ScriptingTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design and evolution of RKE2 Kubernetes clusters across development, acceptance, and production environments — driving upgrades, capacity planning, networking strategy, and operational resilience
Architect and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform) to provision and manage AWS-based environments, establishing patterns and modules that the team can scale with confidence
Own the CI/CD platform (GitHub Actions) end-to-end — designing pipeline architecture, improving build performance, and ensuring releases flow reliably through staged environments
Drive GitOps-based delivery strategy using Flux CD, defining standards for Helm charts and Kustomize overlays and ensuring consistent reconciliation across clusters
Define container image lifecycle policies — building, signing, storing, and distributing images across OCI registries for multiple deployment targets
Identify and eliminate operational toil through automation, improving environment provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes at a systemic level
Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices — owning dashboards, runbooks, and post-incident reviews that raise platform reliability over time
Serve as a technical point of contact for product service teams integrating into the deployment pipeline — unblocking teams, troubleshooting complex environment issues, and advocating for infrastructure best practices
Own the security posture of the deployment platform — managing secrets, certificates, RBAC policies, and security configurations to meet compliance and operational security requirements
Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code review, pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsFlux CDHelmKustomizeLinux systems administrationCI/CD pipelinesAWSautomation

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringtroubleshootingadvocacycollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationownershipreliability mindsetknowledge sharing