CloudOps Lead
Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way. Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.
Our people make all the difference in our success. Today, we are a global team of nearly 7,000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow - all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.
About the Role
We are looking for an experiencedCloudOpsLead to own the operation, reliability, security, and continuous improvement of our cloud-hosted software offerings. This roleis responsible forleading Cloud Operations activities across SaaS and hosted customer environments, driving automation, ensuring compliance, supporting customer onboarding and operations, and partnering closely with Development, DevOps, Product Management, Security, and Customer Success teams.
The ideal candidate combines strong cloud engineeringexpertisewith operational leadership, customer focus, and a passion for automation.
Key Responsibilities:
Cloud Platform Operations
Own day-to-day operation of customer-hosted and SaaS cloud environments.
Ensure platform reliability, scalability, performance, and availability.
Manage infrastructure across Azure and AWS environments.
Establish andmaintainoperational standards, service levels, and runbooks.
Drive continuous service improvement initiatives.
Customer Operations & Support
Act as a technical escalation point for complex customer issues.
Collaborate with Customer Success, Support, and Professional Services teamsregardingcustomer requests and operational needs.
Support customer onboarding, upgrades, migrations, provisioning, and environment lifecycle management.
Lead incident response, root cause investigations, and corrective actions.
Security & Compliance
Maintain a strong cloud security posture across all managed environments.
Coordinate vulnerability management, security scanning, remediation efforts, and compliance activities.
Support regulatory and customer compliance initiatives, including cloud security assessments and audits.
Ensure implementation of secure operational practices and infrastructure governance.
Automation & Platform Engineering
Identifyandeliminatemanual operational processes through automation.
Design and implement Infrastructure as Code, self-service capabilities, and operational tooling.
Improve deployment, provisioning, upgrade, andmaintenanceworkflows.
Promote an automation-first culture within Cloud Operations.
Monitoring, Reliability & Cost Management
Own observability strategy, monitoring, alerting, and operational reporting.
Define and measure operational KPIs, SLAs, and service quality targets.
Drive proactive reliability improvements and capacity planning.
Manage andoptimizecloud infrastructure expenditures.
AI & Emerging Services
Support operation and scaling of AI-enabled cloud services after release.
Partner with engineering teams to ensure production readiness of new AI capabilities.
Develop operational processes for next-generation cloud services.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of experience operating cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or comparable platforms.
Experience leading cloud operations, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering teams.
Strong understanding of:
Kubernetes and containerized workloads
Infrastructure as Code (Terraformetc.)
CI/CD pipelines and automation
Cloud networking and security
Monitoring and observability platforms
Experience managing production incidents and operational escalations.
Strong communicationskills and ability to work with customer-facing teams.
Experience balancing operational priorities, technical debt, and service reliability.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience running enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.
Experience with security compliance frameworks.
Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in production.
Familiarity with software delivery lifecycle and DevOps practices.
Experience with customer onboarding and managed-service environments.
What we can offer:
Long-term financial rewardsthrough our Restricted Stock Unit (RSU)and Employee StockPurchase Plan (ESPP)programs, giving employees the opportunity to share in PTC's success.
Performance-based annual bonusto recognize and reward individual and company achievements.
Comprehensive medical (Union) and life insurance (MetLife) coverageto support you and your loved ones.
Additionalpaid time off throughout the year, including birthday leave, volunteer days, and short summer Fridays to help you recharge and enjoy a better work-life balance.
Paid parental leave of up to 12 weekswhen you are welcoming a new family member
Home office allowanceto help create a comfortable and productive remote working environment.
SZÉP Card benefits
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)offeringconfidential professional support for personal and work-related challenges.
Complimentary in-office massage sessions
Flexible hybrid working model
Life at PTC is about more than working with today’s most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. It’s about showing up as you are and working alongside some of today’s most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.
If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you’ll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?
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