Velaura AI
Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations
$250K–$300K
Santa Clara, CA · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in IT infrastructure, including 5+ leading infrastructure and operations teams.
About the job
Leads Velaura AI’s IT infrastructure and operations, covering engineering compute, hybrid systems, security, employee technology, facilities technology, budgets, vendors, and team growth.
What you'll do
- Plan and operate engineering compute, software infrastructure, hybrid cloud and on-prem systems, and capacity across compute, storage, networks, and licenses.
- Build and own security controls for design IP and customer data, including IAM, endpoint security, disaster recovery, and customer security reviews.
- Lead IT operations and team growth, including employee onboarding, service desk, facilities coordination, budgets, vendor management, and asset management.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in IT infrastructure, including 5+ leading infrastructure and operations teams.
- Experience scaling IT through rapid organizational growth.
- Strong Linux and engineering-compute background; depth in at least one major cloud (Azure, GCP or AWS) and comfort operating all.
- Hands-on expertise in enterprise networking, storage, virtualization, disaster recovery, IAM, MFA, endpoint management, logging, and enterprise security controls.
Nice to have
- Semiconductor, EDA, hardware, or AI-infrastructure experience; familiarity with Cadence / Synopsys / Siemens EDA flows and HPC environments.
- Software supply-chain security, tape-out support, security framework experience, hardware lab or high-availability data center experience, infrastructure-as-code, or listed certifications.
Pay
USD 250,000–300,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
Linux, LSF, Slurm, Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
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