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VelauraPosted Sep 8, 2026
Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations
Santa Clara, CAfull timeOn Sitesenior$250k–$300kH1B: no
Velaura Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations owns IT and infrastructure end to end, leading the IT team and setting architecture direction for compute, storage, security, and vendor management. The role requires hands-on involvement in major IT decisions and scaling infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Velaura AI is seeking an experienced Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations to own IT and infrastructure end to end: the hybrid compute environment our designers depend on, the security program that protects our design IP, the systems that support our development, and the team that runs all of it. You'll lead our existing IT team and grow it.
- We are looking for someone senior enough to set a 12–24 month architecture direction and hands-on enough to be in the middle of all major IT decisions such as storage scaling, COLO expansion, uptime while managing all vendor negotiation. The ideal candidate will be productive on day one, at cohort scale. Additionally they will:
- Ensure Compute and storage capacity is planned ahead of demand rather than in reaction to it; queue wait times and storage performance are measured and trending the right way.
- A new software engineer starts with repo access, a working build environment, and compute quota provisioned before they log in.
- IAM, endpoint, and access controls are in place and documented well enough to pass a customer security audit.
- A disaster-recovery plan exists for every system a tape-out depends on, and it has been tested.
- Hands-on — you'd rather be inside the architecture and the troubleshooting than above it
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