ParentSquare · 14 hours ago

Director of Operations and Security

Santa Barbara, CA

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$175K/yr - $225K/yr

8+ years exp

Maximize your interview chances

Charter SchoolsEducation

Culture & Values

Insider Connection @ParentSquare

Discover valuable connections within the company who might provide insights and potential referrals.
Get 3x more responses when you reach out via email instead of LinkedIn.

Responsibilities

Working closely with the CTO to set clear expectations – and beat those expectations- as you deliver on our platform.

Building and leading your team as you execute each sprint to the best of your ability.

Collaborating with your peer engineering managers and leaders to meet (and beat!) our company goals

Participating in the hiring process as we continue to build our team.

Holding technical staff accountable to balance delivery with quality.

Leading our incident management process to ensure our customers get the best experience at all times.

Ensuring our policies are properly followed and tracked with ITSC, and building integrations between systems (e.g., Vanta) to streamline tracking and enforcement.

Working with the CTO and finance to track infrastructure spend and identify unexpected expenses.

Carrying out and implementing security initiatives with the CTO/ITSC.

Automating maintenance of systems alongside SREs.

Helping product and engineering teams build a culture of cost and security awareness.

On any given day, you might be reviewing PRs, helping a team accelerate delivery, finding a subtle production issue, evaluating vendors or designing the future architecture of our systems.

Track alerts from Vanta/Datadog to identify high-priority work.

Push team to meet sprint goals.

With ITSC, triage and assign maintenance work across Remind, ParentSquare, and SmartSites systems.

Collaborate with product/engineering teams to carry out maintenance.

Integrate/build/extend tests and sources into Vanta.

Work with the CTO to track infrastructure spend across multiple vendors.

With ITSC and CTO, identify expansion opportunities for security and compliance.

Identify automation opportunities to reduce maintenance load on engineering teams.

Coordinate pentests, security training, and compliance audits with ITSC and CTO.

Qualification

Find out how your skills align with this job's requirements. If anything seems off, you can easily click on the tags to select or unselect skills to reflect your actual expertise.

Engineering leadershipSite Reliability EngineeringDevOpsRubyPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptMySQLPostgresAWSAuroraRDSSQSBudget managementAgile developmentCI/CD