Director, IT & DevOps - Palo Alto, CA, United States

Originally posted 24 August 2026 by the employer.

Lead IT and DevOps for Mythic's analog AI technology.

About the role

This Director-level role spans corporate IT, business applications, and the DevOps and compute environments for hardware and software teams across multiple sites.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow the IT & DevOps team covering end-user support, identity and access, business applications, networking, datacenter operations, engineering compute, and build infrastructure.
• Own the corporate application portfolio end to end, including administration, integration, access governance, lifecycle, and renewals.
• Own identity and access, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, group-based entitlements, and automated joiner, mover, and leaver processes.
• Own endpoint and device management across macOS, Windows, and Linux fleets, including imaging standards, encryption, unified endpoint management, and asset tracking.
• Own the information security program, driving maturity in policy, access governance, patch and vulnerability management, logging and monitoring, and data protection.
• Partner with Hardware and Software Engineering on tooling, including EDA tool infrastructure, licensing, job scheduling, remote desktop performance, source control, CI/CD, and build systems.

What you'll need

• 10+ years in IT and/or infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years managing a team.
• Demonstrated ownership of both corporate IT and engineering infrastructure.
• Deep hands-on experience administering an enterprise identity provider and a modern SaaS collaboration stack, including SSO, MFA, automated provisioning, and access governance.
• Deep Linux systems background across both major distribution families, with practical experience running a mixed estate.
• Hands-on experience with virtualization, shared storage, networking, colocation datacenter operations, infrastructure as code, containers, and CI/CD.
• Strong security and compliance track record, including endpoint management, patch and vulnerability management, logging and monitoring, and leading an organization through security assessments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience as the senior-most IT leader at a company or site.
• Experience supporting semiconductor or other compute-intensive engineering environments, including EDA tool flows, license servers, job schedulers, and large shared filesystems.
• Experience supporting a distributed international organization, including EMEA and India, with an understanding of GDPR and cross-border data handling.

Skills: corporate IT, DevOps, datacenter, EDA compute, CI/CD, Kubernetes, foundry security