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We are expanding our leadership team to scale and continuously improve IAM services for North American customers.\nYou will lead a team responsible for cloud infrastructure, automation, and service reliability. You will advance DevOps, SRE, and AIOps practices to deliver secure, scalable services across AWS/GCP, partnering closely with Engineering, Security, Service Desk, and customer-facing teams.\nKey Responsibilities & Leadership Impact\nLeadership & Team Management\nLead, coach, and grow a team of Cloud/DevOps engineers; drive hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development.\n\nSet and track OKRs, manage priorities, and align execution with IAM Services objectives.\n\nBuild a culture of ownership and operational excellence, partnering with global engineering leaders on standards and the long-term cloud roadmap.\n\nCloud Infrastructure Ownership\nOwn end-to-end operations of the IAM cloud platform across AWS and GCP, ensuring resilience, scalability, performance, and security.\n\nDrive modernization with cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, platform engineering, and zero-trust principles.\n\nLead roadmap planning, capacity management, and cost/efficiency optimization to meet growth and SLA commitments.\n\nDevOps, Automation & Platform Engineering\nLead the design and governance of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation frameworks that enable safe, repeatable change.\n\nOwn implementation and lifecycle of tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, and GitLab CI/CD.\n\nEnforce secure engineering standards and reusable patterns through reviews, automation, and continuous improvement.\n\nEstablish best practices for observability, incident response, and SRE (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, post-incident reviews).\n\nAI, AIOps & Intelligent Operations\nLead adoption of AIOps to improve MTTR and reliability through anomaly detection, noise reduction, predictive capacity planning, and automated remediation.\n\nPartner with architects to support AI workloads and enable LLM-assisted operations (runbooks, incident summaries, knowledge search) with secure data access and scalable infrastructure.\n\nChampion responsible AI with clear governance, auditability, and secure-by-design practices aligned to Thales and customer requirements.\n\nOperational Excellence\nEnsure 24/7 availability of critical IAM services through strong L2/L3 support, operational readiness, and measurable outcomes.\n\nOwn on-call and escalation frameworks; continuously improve reliability, change management, and release safety.\n\nLead incident management end-to-end: coordination, stakeholder communication, root cause analysis, and systemic corrective actions.\n\nCross-Functional & Customer Engagement\nCollaborate with R&D, Security, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Service Desk to deliver reliable outcomes for customers and complex deployments.\n\nJoin customer engagements as needed (architecture reviews, escalations) to represent Operations leadership and reinforce customer trust.\n\nRepresent Cloud Operations in strategic planning, audits, risk management, and executive communications.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\nPeople leadership experience managing and developing technical teams (coaching, feedback, delivery accountability).\n\n5+ years deploying and supporting large-scale cloud applications in production.\n\n5+ years with infrastructure automation and DevOps tooling including Terraform, Helm/Ansible, GitLab pipelines, and Python.\n\nDeep expertise with Kubernetes (e.g., K8s, OpenShift) in production.\n\nStrong understanding of change management, SLA/uptime commitments, operational playbooks, and escalation workflows.\n\nExperience operating production systems at scale in AWS and/or GCP.\n\nStrong knowledge of distributed systems (REST APIs, microservices) and data stores (relational/NoSQL).\n\nStrong Linux/Windows fundamentals and solid understanding of cloud security best practices.\n\nExcellent communication and ability to lead in a geographically distributed environment.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.\n\nExperience with AIOps, observability, and SRE and/or platform engineering practices.\n\nInterested?\nApply now. 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