Director of IT, Ava Labs
$166.2-197.4k
Smart contracts platform for dApps
Job no longer available
Smart contracts platform for dApps
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$166.2-197.4k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance that enables the world to have a more prosperous future.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a security focused Director of IT to join our team
- We are seeking someone who is eager to help drive the future of the industry with a hunger to keep learning
- Bachelor’s degree – strictly optional! We care about what you can do, not your degrees or certifications
- 7-10+ years of experience as an enterprise IT leader in an environment of 500-1000+ employees
- Minimum 3+ years in a start-up environment
- Strong track record in a Mac-first environment (We have no Windows and zero Active Directory!)
- Deep familiarity with Okta and Jamf
- Experience as a Slack admin, preferably with Slack Grid
- Familiarity with AWS strongly desired
- Familiarity with a SIEM would be a nice to have
- Track record of success in a cloud-first, cloud-native environment
- Experience ending BYOD phones and provisioning work-issued mobile devices across the enterprise
- Security mindset–at Ava Labs, the IT team reports to Security
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build strong relationships with key people or organizations
- The ability to lead through influence, not authority
- Passion for crypto/web3 and eagerness to consume latest news and developments
- Thorough attention to detail and high organizational skills
- Comfortable working with low oversight, being proactive and anticipating future needs
What the job involves
- Lead a growing team of IT systems engineers to support hundreds of remote-first employees across dozens of time zones
- Optimize all IT systems for security in every aspect; the Director of IT role reports to our CISO
- Own our SSO, MDM, EDR, and CASB infrastructure
- Manage all hardware distribution and refresh
- Lead employee help desk ticket workflow to support the business
- Work with our CISO to define process SLAs and then meet those SLAs
- Support our ISO 27001 certification effort and work with auditors as necessary (this is not a compliance role–but you should have some familiarity with security certifications / regulatory compliance obligations
- Propose new strategic IT initiatives that support both the business and our extremely high security needs
Our take
The highly secure and decentralised nature of blockchain technology makes it an attractive prospect for financial projects. Historically, this has compromised transaction speed and scalability, with Ethereum and Blockchain speeds barely breaking into double digits per second.
Ava Labs’ open-source platform, Avalanche, enables companies to launch decentralised applications with all the benefits of blockchain, whilst processing a record-smashing 4,500 transactions per second. The company's strategy has been to tailor its blockchain to specific applications, establishing a reputation in the sector through efficient hard-and-fast use cases with low fees. This has allowed it to operate alongside blockchain giants like Ethereum that hold large amounts of the DeFi market.
In answering the strong appetite for a cheaper and more scalable blockchain consensus, Ava Labs has found a keen audience and secured the ability to pursue its goal of opening the space up to more users. The Avalanche platform has become the first to partner with Amazon Web Services, becoming part of a project to bring blockchain technology to government and enterprises. The company also partnered with digital identity verification provider Blockpass to collaborate towards furthering the safety, security and capabilities of the ecosystem.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$350m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$230m
LATE VC
Total funding: $586m
Company benefits
- 401k (non-matching)
- Commuter Benefits
- Comprehensive Insurance
- Short-term/long-term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Happy Hour Fridays
- Team Activities
- Remote-friendly Networking
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote Friendly
- Volunteer Time-Off
Company HQ
Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY
Leadership
Kevin Sekniqi
(Co-Founder)Former Researcher and Software Engineer at Microsoft and NASA, with a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.
Emin Gun Sirer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founder of Bloxroute Labs and professor at Cornell for 20 years with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
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