Chainalysis Government Solutions
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Government Systems
New York · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago
PythonBashCode ReviewGitPostgreSQLAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDatadogKafkaCollaboration
About the role
- We're a global organization that thrives on challenging work and doing it alongside exceptionally talented teammates.
- Our data and solutions have been used to solve some of the world's most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely.
- Government Systems sits at the intersection of infrastructure operations and product delivery.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices - owning dashboards, runbooks, and post-incident reviews that raise platform reliability over time
- Mentor and grow other engineers on the team through code review, pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
- The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and building products that establish trust in cryptocurrencies.
- Product teams own their application code, but rely on Government Systems to provision environments, manage release pipelines, and operate the deployment platform.
- Own the security posture of the deployment platform - managing secrets, certificates, RBAC policies, and security configurations to meet compliance and operational security requirements
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
Nice to have
- 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
- Exposure to or passion for the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem
- Experience supporting environments with strict security or compliance requirements (FedRAMP, FIPS, IL environments, or similar)
Skills
- AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, IAM, Lambda)
- RHEL, Rocky Linux, Amazon Linux
- AI at Chainalysis
- AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working.
- There is no substitute for your own curiosity.
- About Chainalysis
- Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services.
Company info
- This position requires eligibility to access U.S. Government information and systems.
- Due to applicable government security requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
- Due to collaboration with Europe, we are highly prioritizing candidates based in EST timezone.
- Now, by pairing the industry's most trusted blockchain data with agents that reason, investigate, and act, we help our customers scale their workflows as the cryptocurrency economy becomes increasingly mainstream.
- As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the Investigations group, you'll be a technical leader on the Government Systems team - the group responsible for the deployment platform and operational infrastructure that delivers Chainalysis Reactor to government and high-security customers.
- The mission of the Government Systems team is to ensure that Chainalysis's most security-sensitive customers can run Reactor reliably in their own environments - including networks with strict access controls and limited connectivity.
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