Director of AI-Driven DevOps Platform

Celestica; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica seeks a Director of DevOps & AI Support Leader to build and operate a modern platform engineering stack supporting 2,500 engineers, including CI/CD automation, AI developer enablement, and secure desktop environments.

Reporting to the VP of HPS Product & Engineering IT, the role balances high-throughput pipelines with AI tools, governance, and robust guardrails across cloud and on-premises systems. You will lead a distributed team and drive DevEx metrics.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive leadership in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or R&D Systems within high-growth technology, semiconductor, or networking hardware/software companies.
• Experience scaling large R&D organizations (2,000+ hardware and software engineers) at high velocity.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD orchestration (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), Kubernetes, containerization, and IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Hands-on experience deploying enterprise AI developer tools (Vertex AI, local LLMs, AI coding assistants) and implementing AI governance guardrails.
• Strong background in Linux desktop distributions (Ubuntu, RHEL) optimized for developer environments.
• Outstanding executive presence with ability to interface directly with HPS product engineering directors, CTO architects, and central Celestica IT leadership.

Responsibilities

• Architect, scale, and optimize automated CI/CD runners, containerized build environments, and IaC deployment pipelines across cloud and on-premises systems.
• Minimize build, test, and pull-request wait times for silicon simulation, firmware compilation, and software engineering toolchains.
• Standardize automated artifact management, release packaging, and deployment orchestration across R&D squads.
• Oversee the deployment and operational governance of the AI Control Tower, enterprise Vertex AI cloud environments, and autonomous AI agents.
• Manage IDE code-completion infrastructure (GitHub Copilot, Cursor instances) and LLM toolchain integration across developer workstations.
• Enforce strict AI prompt and data privacy boundaries to ensure proprietary silicon IP, firmware binaries, and source code do not leak to external AI models.
• Direct dedicated Linux desktop engineering and endpoint optimization to deliver high-performance local development environments for product engineers.
• Partner with Global IT Operations to integrate required endpoint security controls without creating developer friction or performance degradation.
• Directly manage and mentor a distributed team of senior DevOps engineers, AI specialists, Linux OS engineers, and cloud-native security leads across Santa Clara, Toronto, and CRT.
• Establish Developer Experience (DevEx) KPIs tracking build success rates, pipeline latency, system uptime, and AI tool productivity gains.

Job description

Celestica seeks a Director of DevOps & AI Support Leader to build and operate a modern platform engineering stack supporting 2,500 engineers, including CI/CD automation, AI developer enablement, and secure desktop environments.

Reporting to the VP of HPS Product & Engineering IT, the role balances high-throughput pipelines with AI tools, governance, and robust guardrails across cloud and on-premises systems. You will lead a distributed team and drive DevEx metrics.