Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Government Systems

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Chainalysis, remote in specific US states. $150K-$200K with equity and bonus. Focus on Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and CI/CD.

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.

Experience with GitOps tools such as Flux CD or ArgoCD in complex, multi-environment setups — including designing promotion strategies and managing drift. Familiarity with container registry operations, image distribution, OCI artifact management, and image signing or verification workflows. Experience managing databases in Kubernetes environments (e.g., PostgreSQL operators, stateful workloads, backup and recovery strategies). Familiarity with Kafka or other message brokers in a containerized environment, including operational management and scaling. Experience with configuration management or automation tools (Ansible or similar) at fleet scale. Advanced scripting proficiency in Python for infrastructure automation, tooling, and integration work. Experience supporting environments with strict security or compliance requirements (FedRAMP, FIPS, IL environments, or similar). Exposure to or passion for the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem.

$150K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus. Remote work format.