Director, IT & DevOps

📋 Job Overview

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 & DevOps to own it end to end. This is a single leadership role spanning corporate IT, the business application estate, and the DevOps and compute environments that our EDA and software teams depend on, across four sites: Palo Alto, Austin, Hannover and Bangalore.

🏢 About Mythic

Mythic is a company focused on AI computing with breakthrough analog technology that delivers superior performance compared to traditional digital systems.

🎯 The Role

You will own corporate IT and DevOps as one function, leading and growing a team covering helpdesk, identity, endpoints, business applications, networking, datacenter, EDA compute and build/CI infrastructure across multiple sites.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own corporate IT and DevOps 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 tools, business systems, and AI tooling.
• 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.
• 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 NinjaOne 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 #tech_support 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.
• 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.
• Drive infrastructure modernization already in flight: hypervisor replacement, Kubernetes rollout, consolidated observability, the Meraki network refresh across Austin and Palo Alto, and migration to a centrally managed network stack across all sites.
• Own EDA infrastructure in partnership with Hardware Engineering: license servers and vendor licensing (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens), job scheduling, remote desktop delivery, and a fast desktop experience for our Germany and India teams.
• Own the software and DevOps toolchain in partnership with Engineering: source control across Git/GitHub and Perforce, CI/CD, artifact and build systems, container images, and internal developer platform work.
• Own the physical IT footprint: badge and access control, CCTV, conference room AV and Zoom Rooms, printers, ISP relationships and office build-outs, working with Office Management across all four sites.
• Lead the IT side of the videantis (Hannover) integration and the build-out of Mythic India, including identity, email and domain consolidation, network interconnect, tooling migration and GDPR-compliant data handling.
• Own IT budget, vendor and contract management and the SaaS portfolio, partnering with FP&A on forecasting and renewals.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT and/or infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years managing and growing a team; experience as the senior-most IT leader at a company or site strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of both corporate IT and production/engineering infrastructure.