Lead Engineer, Cloud Operations
Pleasanton · Pleasanton, CA (HQ) · USD 160,000-220,000 · 3+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Pleasanton · Pleasanton, CA (HQ)
- Salary
- USD 160,000-220,000
About the role
- We are hiring a Lead Engineer, Cloud Operations to own how the Avathon platform runs in production.
- This is a hands-on role where you will design infrastructure, write automation, share on-call with your team, and set the operating standards the rest of engineering follows.
Responsibilities
- Own uptime, performance and incident response for our SaaS environments and customer-hosted deployments
- Define SLOs, monitoring and alerting across application services, data pipelines and model serving
- Run incident management and blameless postmortems, and drive fixes to closure
- Build runbooks and on-call practices that let the team support customers across time zones
- Design and manage multi-cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS and Azure using infrastructure as code
- Run and scale Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, AKS) for application services, data pipelines and GPU inference workloads
- Own CI/CD and release processes so teams can ship safely and often, including to single-tenant and on-premise customer environments
- Support edge and air-gapped deployments of Avathon Data Ingest (ADI), including packaging, upgrades and remote configuration
- Own cloud security baselines: identity and access, network segmentation, secrets, encryption and audit logging
- Lead and grow a team of cloud and DevOps engineers; set priorities, review work and mentor
Requirements
- 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
- Deep hands-on experience with at least two of GCP, AWS and Azure
- Production experience running Kubernetes at scale, including Helm and container tooling
- Strong infrastructure as code skills with Terraform or similar
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and release automation (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Argo CD or similar)
- Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or the ELK stack
- Scripting and automation in Python, Go or Bash
- Working knowledge of cloud security, IAM and network design
- Clear communicator who stays calm during incidents
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP or similar programs
- Experience supporting on-premise, hybrid or air-gapped deployments
- Experience operating data platforms (Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, streaming) or GPU and ML workloads
Skills
- GCP
- AWS
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- GKE
- EKS
- AKS
- Helm
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- Argo CD
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- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Python
