Avathon
Lead Engineer, Cloud Operations
$160K–$220K
Pleasanton, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in cloud infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles, including 3+ years leading engineers.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads the team operating Avathon’s production platform across public clouds, customer-managed Kubernetes, on-premise, edge, and air-gapped environments, with responsibility for reliability, security, cost, and deployments.
What you'll do
- Own platform reliability, uptime, performance, incident response, SLOs, monitoring, and on-call practices.
- Design and operate multi-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and edge or air-gapped deployments.
- Lead and mentor cloud and DevOps engineers; partner with engineering and customer teams on architecture, security, and go-lives.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years in cloud infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles, including 3+ years leading engineers.
- Hands-on experience with at least two of GCP, AWS, and Azure; production Kubernetes experience, including Helm and container tooling.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform or similar; experience building CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
Nice to have
- Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or similar programs; on-premise, hybrid, or air-gapped deployments.
- Experience operating data platforms or GPU and ML workloads.
Pay
USD $160,000-$220,000 base salary
Tools
GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus
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