• Lead and grow a team that combines a highly technical CI/CD and validation group with an operations-focused lab group, blending deep systems expertise with developing talent to support our Linux/FreeBSD-based edge platforms. • Own and evolve scalable CI/CD pipelines and automated qualification with clear release/rollback gates, comprehensive testing, and strong observability. • Evolve and operate test and load infrastructure that runs production-like Live, VOD, Ads, and Cloud Gaming workloads and surfaces platform contention. • Manage lab operations and capacity, including hardware provisioning, inventory and ticket workflows, contractor coordination, remote access, and efficient use of lab resources. • Streamline the lab’s security architecture so that access controls, isolation mechanisms, and workflows are tightly aligned with platform security standards and compliance requirements. • Define processes and tooling so lab operations can reliably support CI/CD and validation needs, bringing order and prioritization to a high-volume, often ambiguous request stream. • Partner closely with OS, hardware, application, and security teams to align validation and lab support with their roadmaps, integrate functional and security guardrails into CI/CD, and debug complex regressions of large scale. • Lead the use of AI to develop tools and analysis systems that improve developer productivity, operational triage, and the efficiency of CI/CD, validation, and lab workflows. • Partner in bringing up and evaluation of new devices from CPU, GPU, and other hardware vendors in the lab, enabling analysis, validation, and integration into our edge platforms. • Drive engineering excellence by setting technical standards, defining metrics and SLOs, and using data and postmortems to continually improve systems, practices, and lab operations.