Director, IT & DevOps

Mythic is building the future of AI computing with breakthrough analog technology that delivers 100x the performance of traditional digital systems at the same power and cost. Delivering silicon on that timeline depends on infrastructure that is fast, secure, and always available, and we are hiring a Director of IT & Dev Ops to own it end to end. This is a single leadership role spanning corporate IT, the business application estate, and the Dev Ops and compute environments that our EDA and software teams depend on, across four sites:
Palo Alto, Austin, Hannover and Bangalore. On one side you will own identity, endpoints, the helpdesk, the office and network footprint, and the SaaS portfolio that runs the company, from Okta and Google Workspace to Rippling, Net Suite, Salesforce and Atlassian. On the other you will own our Austin datacenter, EDA compute and licensing, CI/CD, Kubernetes and our foundry-driven security program.

You will set the strategy, build the operating cadence, and modernize an environment that has grown fast and now needs an owner. You will work directly with the CTO organization, Engineering leadership, and the exec staff.

• Own corporate IT and Dev Ops as one function: lead and grow a team covering helpdesk, identity, endpoints, business applications, networking, datacenter, EDA compute and build/CI infrastructure across Palo Alto, Austin, Hannover and Bangalore.

• Own the corporate application estate end to end, including administration, integration, security review and lifecycle for identity and collaboration (Okta and Okta Workflows, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Zoom including Zoom Rooms and Zoom Phone, Box, Atlassian), business systems (Rippling, Lever, Net Suite, Ramp, Docu Sign, Salesforce, Amazon Business), and AI tooling (Claude, ChatGPT, Git Hub Copilot).

• Build what does not exist yet: a single authoritative SaaS and license inventory, a renewal calendar, a named owner and approver for every application, a vendor risk and procurement process, and reporting on spend and utilization. Today the closest thing we have to an application inventory is whatever happens to be assigned in Okta.

• Own identity as the backbone of the company. Finish connecting Rippling to Okta to FreeIPA so that joiner, mover and leaver events flow automatically, eliminate shared accounts and legacy credentials, enforce group-based access, and close the manual gaps that persist after someone is terminated in Rippling.

• Own endpoint and device management: complete the Ninja One UEM rollout, maintain the Mac and Windows laptop standards and imaging with full-disk encryption and key escrow, and stand up real asset tracking through Jira Assets.

• Own IT service management: run the Jira Service Management portal, the # intake and the it-tickets alias with real SLAs, and separate user-facing support from internal project work so infrastructure programs run as sprints and epics rather than as interrupts.

• Run our foundry-driven security and compliance program, including OS lifecycle and patch SLAs, elimination of shared accounts, account lifecycle logging, DLP, file‑access auditing and encryption and key management standards, clearing the audit gates that control access to advanced‑node design data. You will also close the gaps we know we have, including no SIEM, no endpoint detection and response, no recent penetration testing, no security awareness program and untested backups.

• Own the Austin datacenter and colocation relationships, capacity and refresh planning for EDA compute, storage and GPU, and the build‑out of new cage and rack space.

• Own our Linux estate and set its direction. Today it runs on two tracks: a RHEL‑family stack (RHEL, CentOS and Rocky) certified for EDA tool flows, and Ubuntu for developer VMs, CI agents and containers. You will finish the migration off end‑of‑life CentOS 7 and RHEL 7, land the supported Rocky baseline the EDA vendors certify against, and decide where to consolidate versus where a second track is genuinely justified.

• Drive infrastructure modernization already in flight: hypervisor replacement, Kubernetes rollout, consolidated observability, the…