Platform Infrastructure Engineer — Remote-First, High-Impact

The Bitcoin Street Journal; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Equity

Learning budget

Job summary

Helius is seeking a Platform/Infra Engineer to automate server lifecycle, standardize deployment, and strengthen security across a bare‑metal fleet. You’ll own tooling, collaboration across teams, and cost/observability gains.

You’ll work in a remote-friendly environment with a focus on ownership, fast iteration, and learning. 3+ years in infrastructure and strong Linux fundamentals are required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on bare metal experience (PXE, IPMI/BMC, RAID, NICs).
• Strong Linux fundamentals (systemd, networking, storage).
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Nix).
• Solid scripting or programming ability (Python, Go, Bash).
• Security mindset: consider access, blast radius, and secrets by default.

Responsibilities

• Automate the server lifecycle end to end: provisioning, OS installs, configuration, hardware validation, decommissioning.
• Build and maintain fleet interaction tooling to avoid manual config of machines.
• Standardize build/deploy processes: CI, artifacts, deploy tooling, rollbacks.
• Execute security roadmap items: SSO, jump hosts, secrets management, least-privilege, audit trails.
• Run cost analysis across fleet and produce actionable recommendations.
• Improve observability and participate in on-call and incident response.
• Write runbooks and docs for remote team operations.

Skills

Ownership

Linux fundamentals

Python/Go/Bash

Security mindset

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Salt

Nix

Job description

Helius is seeking a Platform/Infra Engineer to automate server lifecycle, standardize deployment, and strengthen security across a bare‑metal fleet. You’ll own tooling, collaboration across teams, and cost/observability gains.

You’ll work in a remote-friendly environment with a focus on ownership, fast iteration, and learning. 3+ years in infrastructure and strong Linux fundamentals are required.