Lead DevOps Engineer at Radiant Industries

ABOUT RADIANT Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based startup building the world’s first mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. The company’s first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1-megawatt, fail-safe microreactor that can be transported anywhere power is needed and run for up to 5 years without refueling. Portable nuclear power with rapid-deploy capability can replace similar-sized diesel generators and provide critical asset support for hospitals, data centers, remote sites, and military bases. Radiant’s unique, practical approach to nuclear development leverages modern software engineering to rapidly deliver safe, factory-built microreactors that use existing, well-qualified materials. Founded in 2020, Radiant is on track to test its first reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory this summer, with initial customer deliveries beginning in 2028. ABOUT THE ROLE Radiant is seeking a driven Technical Lead DevOps Engineer to own software infrastructure, deployment, and automation projects. In this role, you will collaborate across the entire org and work closely with the software team to design scalable, secure, and resilient DevOps practices, tools, and systems. As a technical lead, you will mentor engineers, define team scope, and shape individual responsibilities to build and grow a high-performing DevOps function. The infrastructure you manage, pipelines you build, and analysis tools you create and maintain will be used to design, run, and analyze the first new reactor design in 50 years. You will have the opportunity to build a strong foundation for production. RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: - Lead a team of DevOps engineers and establish responsibilities, project scope, and technical mentorship. - Architect, implement, and maintain infrastructure across AWS and on-premises Linux environments, ensuring high availability, security, and performance for mission-critical systems. - Own and optimize Kubernetes and Docker container orchestration to run simulations, internal tools, and engineering applications at scale. - Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Git, Argo, and other automation tools to enable rapid, reliable software delivery across engineering teams. - Architect internal tools supporting build systems, testing frameworks, deployment automation, and developer environments. - Develop computational analysis tools for the digital twin platform, implementing automated profiling and monitoring to optimize HPC workloads for reactor modeling. - Implement and manage infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform or similar tools to ensure reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure deployments. - Establish and maintain observability, monitoring, and logging infrastructure to ensure system reliability and enable rapid incident response. - Design and maintain high-performance networking infrastructure for distributed simulation systems, optimizing data transfer between HPC clusters. - Work across engineering teams to understand infrastructure requirements and eliminate bottlenecks that impact development velocity. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS: - Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field. - 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering. - 2+ years in a leadership role in either a people management or technical lead scope. Mentoring engineers and establishing their scope and responsibilities. - Expert-level proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Golang, Rust, C#, or C/C++. - Strong coding skills, developing automation and monitoring tools, internal applications, and infrastructure software. - Expert-level proficiency with Kubernetes and Docker for orchestration and deployment. - Experience with Git and CI/CD tools (Argo, GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), designing automated build, test, and deployment pipelines. Desired Qualifications and Skills: - 4+ years in a leadership role in either a people management or technical lead scope. Mentoring engineers and establishing their scope and responsibilities. - Experience deploying and maintaining cloud-native applications in production, including hands-on work with microservices, architectures, service mesh technologies, and distributed systems. - Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Nagios, etc. - Working experience in secrets management, Identity and access management, network security, vulnerability scanning, etc. - Experience in highly regulated industries (aerospace, defense, automotive, nuclear, or medical devices). - Experience working cross-functionally with engineering teams in different disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, materials, and nuclear. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS - Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to accomplish our mission. - Must work 100% onsite at El Segundo HQ. BENEFITS AND PERKS - Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees. - Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans. - One Medical: Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents. - Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents. - Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents. - Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits. - 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees. - Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks. - Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation. - Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie. - Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean. Total Compensation and Benefits Radiant compensates people for impact and invests in those who continue to raise the bar. Radiant’s new hire compensation package includes base salary, substantial equity grants, and comprehensive health benefits. Total compensation and level are determined through a rigorous evaluation of interview performance, experience, education, and qualifications, and are designed to support continued growth as scope, responsibility, and impact expand at Radiant. The best of today’s advanced reactor builders don’t wait for job postings. They join the winning team. If that’s you, contact us directly for immediate opportunities: [Upgrade to PRO to see contact]. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time. This position involves access to technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.