# Senior DevOps Lead - Cloud & Autonomous System

**Company:** [Cyngn](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cyngn)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $198k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, ROS, Ros2, Python, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Helm, Kustomize, Linux, Nvidia Cuda, Arm
**Posted:** 2025-04-23

> Lead DevOps architecture and infrastructure for cloud and autonomous vehicle systems. Manage AWS, Kubernetes, ROS/Linux environments, CI/CD, observability, and mentor a team of engineers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and architect cloud and vehicle infrastructure initiatives across AWS and ROS/Linux environments
- Design and implement scalable solutions for both cloud services and autonomous vehicle systems
- Establish and maintain DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
- Drive observability, monitoring, and incident response strategies
- Optimize performance and cost efficiency of cloud and edge computing resources
- Mentor team members and foster a developer-friendly environment
- Manage on-call rotations and incident response processes
- Architect solutions for processing and storing large-scale vehicle telemetry data
- Lead security initiatives and compliance efforts across infrastructure
- Optimize system performance for real-time processing of high-bandwidth sensor data
- Develop and maintain documentation for system architecture and integration procedures

## Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant DevOps/Infrastructure experience
- Proven track record as a technical lead in platform or infrastructure teams
- Advanced expertise in AWS services, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and Kubernetes
- Strong experience with service mesh (Istio) and Helm/Kustomize
- Deep understanding of ROS/ROS2 and Linux kernel configurations
- Experience with GPU configurations and ML infrastructure
- Expertise in ARM and NVIDIA CUDA platform configurations
- Strong programming skills in Python and shell scripting
- Experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible)
- Expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Strong system architecture and design skills
- Excellence in technical documentation
- Outstanding problem-solving abilities
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities

## Nice to Haves
- Experience with autonomous vehicle systems
- Track record of optimizing GPU-based ML infrastructure
- Experience with large-scale IoT deployments
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience with real-time systems and low-latency requirements
- Expertise in security implementations including SSO, IdP, and AWS Cognito
- Experience with JFrog artifactory and container registry management
- Proficiency in AWS IoT Greengrass
- Experience with container resource management on edge devices
- Understanding of CPU affinity and priority scheduling
- Track record of implementing cost optimization strategies
- Experience with scaling systems both horizontally and vertically

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