A10 Networks, Inc · 2 days ago
Director, IT and Infrastructure
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$190K/yr - $230K/yr
10+ years expA10 Networks, Inc is seeking a Director of IT and Infrastructure who will be a strategic and hands-on technology leader responsible for driving agility, scalability, and resilience across enterprise and production environments. This role involves overseeing the infrastructure that supports both internal IT systems and customer-facing applications while collaborating closely with various teams to modernize the company’s hybrid infrastructure and optimize automation pipelines.
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Responsibilities
Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of on-premise, hybrid, and cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise systems and production workloads
Ensure high availability, performance, and security of all core infrastructure services including compute, storage, networking, and cloud environments
Oversee production operations with a focus on observability, scalability, and proactive incident management
Drive adoption of DevOps and Agile practices across IT and infrastructure teams to accelerate release cycles and reduce deployment friction
Partner with engineering and product teams to enable CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, and automated testing frameworks
Establish infrastructure-as-code and configuration management standards (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent) to ensure consistency and repeatability
Serve as a bridge between IT and software engineering teams, ensuring infrastructure decisions directly support developer velocity and reliability of production systems
Partner with Engineering leadership to align infrastructure roadmaps with product delivery timelines and technology evolution
Advocate for operational excellence by embedding observability, performance tuning, and postmortem culture into the engineering process
Define and execute a multi-year infrastructure modernization roadmap that enables agility, automation, and cost optimization across data centers and cloud platforms
Manage infrastructure lifecycle planning—including capacity, patching, upgrades, and end-of-life management
Ensure compliance with security, audit, and operational standards in coordination with the Information Security team
Lead and mentor a team of system engineers, cloud administrators, and IT operations specialists
Foster a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement within the infrastructure team
Manage relationships with key technology vendors, service providers, and support partners to ensure value alignment and operational excellence
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; Master's preferred
10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure or operations roles, with at least 5 years in a leadership capacity
Proven experience building and supporting CI/CD environments in hybrid or multi-cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Strong technical background in Linux/Windows systems, networking, cloud platforms, and automation frameworks
Hands-on understanding of infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), and DevOps toolchains (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD)
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical teams in fast-paced engineering or SaaS environments
Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills; able to translate technical issues into business outcomes
Preferred
Experience supporting production customer-facing environments in SaaS, networking, or high-availability domains
Prior background working closely with software engineering and SRE teams to improve agility and reliability
Knowledge of security frameworks, ITIL principles, and automation-first operations
Familiarity with FinOps or cloud cost management practices
Experience managing remote teams
Company
A10 Networks, Inc
A10 Networks provides security and infrastructure solutions for on-premises, hybrid cloud, and edge-cloud environments.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$371.8MKey Investors
Silicon Valley BankSummit PartnersMitsui Global Investment
2025-03-12Post Ipo Debt· $193.8M
2016-12-02Post Ipo Debt· $25M
2014-03-21IPO
Leadership Team
Dhrupad Trivedi
President & Chief Executive Officer
Terry Young
Director, 5G and Service Provider Product Marketing
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