Summary

Company Information

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.

Role Information

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

Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances.