Senior IT Systems Engineer

About Us

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data offchain computation and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking DeFi global trade and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions notably Swift DTCC and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams including Aave Compound GMX Maker and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom .

The Security Team

The security department is the guardian of Chainlink Labs’ people and infrastructure. Its principal objective is to safeguard Chainlink Labs and its assets against potential threats from any external or internal source. This mission is accomplished through a combination of specialized security engineering the deployment of cutting-edge technologies forward-thinking policy development and the training of highly skilled security-aware personnel throughout the entire organization.

As an indispensable component of the larger organization the team seeks to promote a widely understood culture of security safeguarding our most valuable assets while remaining agile and accessible to all employees and the community.

The Senior IT Systems Engineer is an experienced IT developer dedicated to building world class infrastructure automation and process while delivering exceptional customer service. In this role you will be a founding member of our growing IT team and engineer solutions across identity endpoint management core infrastructure and employee productivity systems. This position is a ground-floor opportunity to help shape the future of the IT organization.

IT is part of our Security function and you will work closely with the Security team to plan implement and communicate initiatives to increase both productivity & security. This role is ideal for an individual that has a strong aptitude for hands-on engineering work and developing new processes.

This role is also a career-defining opportunity as you will be a part of a fast-growing tech company that is successfully implementing a key piece of the world’s blockchain infrastructure designed to power the digital agreements of the future.

Your Impact

• Force multiply company wide productivity and security by engineering identity and access management related solutions

• Leverage and expand the implementation of our SSO identity lifecycle workflow automation and application integration platform

• Design build and implement endpoint device management policies and procedures infrastructure and supporting systems

• Deploy technical fixes across multiple platforms including MacOS Linux and Windows

• Proficiently stand up scale and maintain core IT infrastructure in a public cloud environment like AWS

• Eliminate manual effort through automation across core productivity tooling by developing custom apps

• Onboard and operationalize new solutions that solve the highest leverage business challenges

• Anticipate the needs of our business while continuously seeking opportunities to innovate and improve the employee experience.

• Develop strategic partnerships within the organization and find ways to reduce operational friction

• Own the end-to-end planning execution and delivery of projects within your scope of responsibility

• Define new runbooks for operational effectiveness while also optimizing existing documentation

• Mentor other members of IT to uplevel the team

• Become a culture carrier as an early employee in a fast paced startup environment

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in an IT related position

• Strong expertise w/ advanced IAM administration and engineering including development / integration with SSO leveraging associated APIs connectors custom rules workflows and automations

• Strong expertise in scripting languages such as Python and Bash

• Expertise administering MDM Platforms such as Jamf or VMWare Workspace ONE

• Expertise hosting and maintaining AWS infrastructure with strong working knowledge of AWS compute storage networking database security and management services

• Experience hosting and managing Atlassian Suite products within AWS.

• Expertise with software development methodologies such as Agile or Scrum and version control systems like Git

• Expertise managing core SaaS Products such as Okta GSuite Jira Confluence and Slack

• Expertise managing and supporting major operating systems such as MacOS Linux and Windows in startup and enterprise environment

• Experience with a variety of Linux distributions such as Ubuntu NixOS Red Hat and CentOS.

• Working knowledge of DevOps management tools such as Ansible Puppet Terraform or Chef and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes

• Ability to learn and apply new technologies or concepts quickly

• Adept at identifying and rapidly creating solutions to resolve gaps while staying cognizant of our overall priorities

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal; able to document architecture diagrams and present technical concepts to stakeholders with various levels of technical understanding

• Strong knowledge of security best practices

• ITIL certification or working knowledge

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

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