Cloud Platform Lead: Multi-Cloud Operations & Reliability

Avathon; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Reasonable accommodations

Job summary

Avathon is hiring a Lead Engineer, Cloud Operations to own how the platform runs in production across GCP, AWS, Azure, and edge deployments. You will lead reliability, security, cost, and deployment, designing infrastructure and automation while sharing on-call duties.

This hands-on role requires building CI/CD, operating Kubernetes at scale, and guiding a team of cloud engineers to ensure operability, security, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 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; experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP or similar programs is a plus.
• Experience supporting on-premise, hybrid or air-gapped deployments is a strong plus.
• Experience operating data platforms (Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, streaming) or GPU and ML workloads is a plus.
• Clear communicator who stays calm during incidents.

Responsibilities

• Own uptime, performance and incident response for SaaS and customer deployments.
• Define SLOs, monitoring and alerting across services, data pipelines and model serving.
• Run incident management and blameless postmortems, drive fixes to closure.
• Build runbooks and on-call practices for multi-timezone support.
• Design and manage multi-cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS and Azure using infrastructure as code.
• Run and scale Kubernetes for services, data pipelines and GPU workloads.
• Own CI/CD and release processes including on-premise environments.
• Support edge and air-gapped deployments of ADI, including packaging and upgrades.
• Lead and grow a team of cloud and DevOps engineers; mentor.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

SRE / DevOps

GCP

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Python/Go/Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK stack

Job description

Avathon is hiring a Lead Engineer, Cloud Operations to own how the platform runs in production across GCP, AWS, Azure, and edge deployments. You will lead reliability, security, cost, and deployment, designing infrastructure and automation while sharing on-call duties.

This hands-on role requires building CI/CD, operating Kubernetes at scale, and guiding a team of cloud engineers to ensure operability, security, and cost efficiency.