# Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Government Systems at Chainalysis

- Company: Chainalysis
- What the company does: Backed by Accel and Techstars.
- Company website: http://www.chainalysis.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/chainalysis-careers/0782bd50-fc84-45e5-a517-835bb2a79e37
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chainalysis-senior-infrastructure-engineer-government-systems/

## About the role

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

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: R&D