About This Role:
As the Director of Engineering, Cloud Availability, you will lead our engineering organization in Dublin, serving as a critical bridge between our European operations and our US headquarters. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will oversee Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Network Engineering, and Data Center Infrastructure Engineering to ensure the global resiliency of Crusoe Cloud. You will be the primary "culture carrier" for our Dublin office, fostering a high-trust, high-performance environment that remains deeply integrated with our global mission to build the future of sustainable computing.
The ideal candidate is a strategic organizational leader who thrives in matrixed environments and possesses a deep technical background in large-scale cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for scaling our EMEA presence, managing critical reliability initiatives, and implementing a seamless "follow-the-sun" operational model. This is a full-time position based in Dublin, offering the opportunity to lead transformative projects—from building SRE functions for AI/ML managed services to driving a culture of operational excellence across multiple continents.
What You’ll Be Working On:
- Organizational Leadership: Partner closely with Data Center, Network, and SRE teams to build and scale a world-class engineering organization in Dublin.
- Site Leadership & Culture: Serve as the primary point of contact and face of Crusoe leadership in Dublin, proactively managing office sentiment and ensuring the team remains focused on high-impact objectives.
- Global Strategic Alignment: Build high-trust partnerships with US-based leadership to ensure local priorities are perfectly synchronized with the global business roadmap.
- Operational Excellence: Implement and refine "follow-the-sun" protocols to enable smooth hand-offs between time zones, ensuring zero customer disruption and 24/7 reliability.
- Unified Team Vision: Foster a "one-team" mindset across geographic boundaries, breaking down silos and promoting deep collaboration between Dublin and US offices.
- Talent Development: Level up the Dublin engineering team by identifying individual strengths and establishing a culture of mentorship to grow the next generation of Engineering Leads and ICs.
- Reliability Initiatives: Lead the development of SRE functions for IaaS and managed services, including Inference, SLURM, and automated cluster management.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
- Extensive Leadership Experience: 10+ years of engineering leadership experience with a proven track record of managing high-performing technical teams.
- Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of public cloud infrastructure and experience building or operating large-scale platforms (Public, Private, or Hybrid).
- Reliability Mastery: Expert-level understanding of availability, observability, SLIs/SLOs, and modern incident management frameworks.
- Global Collaboration: Proven ability to lead remote teams and successfully collaborate with US-based engineering organizations.
- Matrix Proficiency: Demonstrated success navigating and leading within a matrix organizational structure.
- Container Orchestration: Strong familiarity with virtual and managed Kubernetes platforms, such as EKS, GKE, or AKS.
- Strategic Thinking: The ability to balance long-term organizational strategy with the immediate tactical needs of a fast-growing engineering site.
Bonus Points:
- AI/ML Infrastructure: Prior experience working with or building infrastructure platforms specifically tailored for AI and Machine Learning workloads.
- Startup Scaling: Experience navigating the rapid growth phases of a high-scale startup environment.
- Large-Scale Infrastructure: A background managing massive-scale infrastructure projects that exceed standard enterprise requirements.
- Advanced Reliability Architectures: Experience designing automated recovery systems and "self-healing" infrastructure at scale.
Benefits:
Crusoe also offers a competitive benefits package designed to support financial security, health, and overall well-being, including pension contributions, private health and dental insurance, income protection, life assurance, and more.
Compensation:
Compensation will be paid as a salary or hourly. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
