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Nubank

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2013

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

Fintech • Banking

Nubank is a Brazilian digital banking and financial services company (operating as Nu Pagamentos S. A. ) that offers consumer and business financial products through a mobile-first platform. Nubank provides no‑annual‑fee credit cards, digital checking/savings accounts, instant payments and transfers, personal loans, business accounts (Nu Empresas), savings subaccounts called Caixinhas, investment services (Nu Asset), and multilayer security and customer support. The company operates across multiple markets (references to Nu México, Nu Colômbia and Nu Global appear in its materials) and cites roughly 130 million customers in its messaging.

📋 Description

• Leading the technical direction of Nubank’s physical infrastructure and data center operations, acting as the main technical reference for the team on all infrastructure-related questions (power, cooling, space, cabling, safety, standards). • Owning standardization across all data centers in terms of contracts, technical and operational requirements, equipment, and processes, ensuring a consistent, high-maturity setup in every site. • Designing and maintaining robust, senior-level documentation (standards, procedures, runbooks, capacity, topology), making sure it is clear, up to date, and usable by different stakeholders across Nubank. • Acting as the primary interface between Nubank teams and external data center providers, translating business needs into infrastructure requirements, work orders, change requests, and negotiations with vendors. • Coordinating the design and deployment of infrastructure in third‑party data centers (space, racks, cages, power, cooling, cabling), ensuring compliance with Nubank’s safety, redundancy, and performance requirements – always focused on managing our space in colocation sites, not building our own data centers from scratch. • Ensuring alignment between physical infrastructure and IT operations, including service installation, cabling changes, capacity planning, and estimating provider hours needed to deploy or modify environments. • Supporting the manager in leading the team technically, helping to decompose work, review solutions, mentor engineers, and be the first escalation point for complex technical decisions so the manager can focus on strategy and broader topics. • Interconnecting projects and maintaining standards across multiple data centers, making sure that, over time, all sites converge to the same level of standardization and quality in terms of infrastructure, contracts, and documentation. • Driving continuous improvements in availability, resilience, and efficiency of our physical infrastructure (power systems, generators, UPS, cooling, fire protection, structured cabling, and more), in close collaboration with providers and internal stakeholders. • Contributing to training and knowledge sharing within the team, helping to design and follow up on technical training, and creating clarity on expectations and standards for the broader group.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Control/Automation, or related fields). • 8–10 years of experience in data center and technical room environments, including deployment and operations of physical infrastructure and IT infrastructure in colocation or enterprise data centers. • Solid, hands-on experience with physical infrastructure systems such as power distribution, generators, UPS, cooling/HVAC, fire detection and suppression, and structured cabling in data centers. • Proven experience working closely with data center IT operations (service installation, cabling changes, capacity planning, provider work orders and hours, and environment deployment activities). • Demonstrated ability to act as a technical lead / anchor for a team, being the person others go to first for infrastructure questions and decisions, and ensuring consistent technical standards across multiple sites or projects. • Strong track record of creating and maintaining clear, robust, senior-level technical documentation for infrastructure standards, procedures, and designs. • Availability and interest to work based in São Paulo, Brazil, in a hybrid set‑up, with close proximity to the manager and most of the team.

🏖️ Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank • Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação) • Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte) • NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program • Life Insurance • Medical Plan • Dental Plan • NuLanguage – Language Course Program • Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses • Extended Parental Leave • Daycare Allowance • Parental Consultancy • Work-from-home Allowance • Gym Partnerships • 30 days of paid vacation • Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable