We are seeking a hands-on Director of Tech Ops to own and evolve our backend platforms, data infrastructure, DevOps, security, and internal IT operations .

This role is foundational to Autobrains’ ability to securely build, train, validate, and operate state-of-the-art autonomous driving systems at scale. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in operating secure, production-grade infrastructure in a data-intensive AI environment, while also leading and growing high-performing teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own backend infrastructure, DevOps, security, and internal IT operations end-to-end
• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud and on-prem infrastructure supporting large-scale AI training, validation, and data pipelines
• Lead the architecture and operation of systems handling massive volumes of visual and multimodal data
• Establish and continuously improve DevOps practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, reliability, security, and cost optimization
• Define, implement, and enforce infrastructure and data security standards, policies, and controls
• Lead security compliance efforts, including implementation and successful audits of frameworks such as ISO 27001 and similar standards
• Manage corporate IT systems, access control, networking, endpoints, and external vendors
• Partner closely with AI, algorithm, and R&D teams to support ML workflows and evolving compute and data needs
• Drive selection, adoption, and integration of cloud platforms, databases, DevOps tools, and third-party services
• Define best practices for scalability, availability, resilience, and security across the organization
• Lead, mentor, and scale backend, DevOps, security, and IT teams

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering, including leadership roles
• Proven experience leading and managing backend, DevOps, security, and IT functions in a production environment