Nucleus is seeking a Director of Engineering Operations to join our team to support the Nucleus application, employees, and customers. The Director of Engineering Operations is instrumental in the organization’s ability to deliver a reliable and performant application. This hands-on leader is someone who has “been there done that” when it comes to leading and managing an Engineering Operations team within a SaaS environment in the security space. This leader would report to the CIO and would be responsible for all engineering operations within Nucleus, including provisioning, operating, maintaining, and observing Nucleus’s various product lines. Nucleus is a fast-growing startup where we recognize and reward performance and encourage sustainable working hours. Nucleus believes “work is people”, and when our people succeed, our company succeeds. We are a remote first company with the ability to work anywhere in the United States.

What You Will Do

Lead the engineering operations team following the Nucleus Core Values
Roadmap Planning and Project Management
Personnel Management: 1:1s, Performance Reviews
Technical Contributions & Architectural Guidance
Design, create, and maintain cloud platforms
Use or create tools to manage systems, solve problems, and automate operations tasks
Responsible for the availability, CI/CD, change management, incident management, emergency response, observability, cloud spend, and capacity management of platform services
Monitoring and reporting the status of all production applications
Assist in troubleshooting complex customer issues as needed

Desired Qualifications:

15+ years of experience directly related to the job functions
Experience with people management
Industry accepted certifications
Ability to migrate and scale cloud systems and solutions to allow for the growing infrastructure to remain available, secure, and performant
Self-starter with an ability to troubleshoot complex problems and deploy/develop fixes
Deep understanding of designing and deploying cloud technologies
Team player with ability to adapt to the rapidly changing world of startups
Manage and participate in on-call rotation
CI/CD development and deployment
Experience with administration and use of ticketing systems like Jira
Scripting or programming experience
Adhering with compliance requirements and regulatory requirements

Experience with technologies such as
- Linux
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Grafana
- Cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- Containers
- SQL and various DBMS’ preferably SingleStore

Why You Should Be Excited

Work on a truly unique solution that’s defining a market and making an actual impact
Work for a financially secure start-up with a rapidly expanding enterprise customer base
We’re biased, but you will get to work with one of the best teams in security. We have a lot to get done and we work extremely hard, but we also laugh and have fun in the process
Outstanding benefits - flexible PTO, 401k company contribution (not a match, a contribution), generous education and training budget, 100% company-paid healthcare, fully remote… just to start

Additional Information

At Nucleus we are committed to achieving excellence in our field by combining diversity, collaboration, teamwork, and pride in our work. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

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