Avathon
Lead Engineer, Cloud Operations
Pleasanton, California, United States · Senior
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$5,131 more — $165,131 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,131 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Avathon is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us to discuss how we can assist you.
Responsibilities
- Own uptime, performance and incident response for our SaaS environments and customer-hosted deployments
- Run incident management and blameless postmortems, and drive fixes to closure
- Design and manage multi-cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS and Azure using infrastructure as code
- Own CI/CD and release processes so teams can ship safely and often, including to single-tenant and on-premise customer environments
- 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
- Partner with product engineering, data and ML teams on architecture decisions that affect operability
- Work with forward deployed and customer success teams to stand up new customer environments and support go-lives
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
- Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or the ELK stack
- 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)
- 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
- Clear communicator who stays calm during incidents
Nice to have
- experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP or similar programs is a plus
- Experience operating data platforms (Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, streaming) or GPU and ML workloads is a plus
Skills
- High-Growth Environment -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm.
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Compensation
- l$160,000-$220,000
Company info
- Build runbooks and on-call practices that let the team support customers across time zones
- Support customer security reviews and compliance programs, including requirements for regulated and defense customers
Equal opportunity
- Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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