Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations

Role Overview 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 Scale-minded — you build for the company we're becoming, not the one we are today Engineering-oriented — you treat compute availability and storage performance as product-schedule items, because they are Security-conscious — you treat design data as the crown jewels and still find ways to say yes to engineers Pragmatic — you balance real controls against the speed a fast-growing company needs Steady — outages, security incidents, hiring waves, lab problems, IT scale problems and hard deadlines don't rattle you