Jobs at Cielo Projects

Lead reliability engineering for a mission-critical blockchain payments platform spanning OP Stack, private Besu infrastructure, Overledger Gateway, and Settlement Bridge. Responsibilities include technical escalation, incident response, root cause analysis, SLOs, observability, infrastructure automation, release governance, resilience improvements, runbooks, mentoring, and shared 24/7 on-call support. The role remains deeply hands-on while shaping reliability strategy and operational standards.

Owns change and release management for a regulated technology engagement. Chairs change-control processes, ensures production changes follow automated or auditable procedures, governs the AWS tenancy relationship, and directs Release and Infrastructure Engineers across Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD deployments. Reports change success, incidents, and audit findings to leadership while maintaining risk assessment and rollback discipline.

Build and maintain Terraform infrastructure supporting AWS environments, provision non-production environments for release testing, troubleshoot environment issues during release windows, align standards with Platform Reliability, and maintain auditable infrastructure documentation.

Lead 24/7 SOC monitoring, detection, triage, incident response, PKI certificate lifecycle operations, firewall threat-intelligence integrations, and blockchain-intelligence tooling. Coordinate with Platform Reliability during Severity 1 security and availability events, tune security platforms, and mentor on-shift Security Operations Engineers.

Own significant smart-contract release-train workstreams, maintain and test the Fusion-specific Optimism upstream diff, guide protocol engineers, participate in protocol incident response, and support external audit preparation and remediation.

Own reliability for a production blockchain and payments platform supporting tokenized deposit settlement. Establish service levels, error budgets, release governance, observability, and operational processes across Kubernetes, blockchain nodes, gateways, bridges, and audit systems. Build and lead a 24x7 multi-shift platform reliability team, participate in the rotation, and ensure resilient production operations ahead of the planned 2027 launch.

Own the smart-contract release train for a permissioned EVM rollup built on the OP Stack. Lead external audits, maintain Quant’s fork of upstream Optimism, assess intentional protocol divergences, and investigate and explain unexpected chain behavior to reliability engineers, security teams, and banking customers.

Leads the operation for The Clearing House’s On-Chain Money Initiative, serving as the accountable executive for contracts, commercial relationships, service levels, operational roadmap, regional P&L, staffing, and budget. Oversees platform reliability and security leaders, establishes operating standards for a regulated 24x7 financial infrastructure, and manages relationships with bank executives and engineering teams ahead of the 2027 launch.

Own security operations for a regulated on-chain money platform, including 24/7 SOC coverage, PKI and certificate lifecycle management, threat intelligence, blockchain transaction monitoring, incident response, and regulatory evidence. Establish and validate the security model ahead of the 2027 launch while partnering with Platform Reliability on security and availability incidents.