Global DevOps Lead

Overview

As Global DevOps Lead, you’ll shape and scale our DevOps practice across a multi-market tech landscape. You will guide distributed teams, drive automation and operational excellence, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Your leadership will enable rapid, reliable delivery and transform how we work across the organization. This role offers strategic impact at executive levels and the chance to influence our technology trajectory on a global scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible/hybrid working model
• Discounted travel for family and friends
• Career progression within a global brand network
• Fun culture with social events
• Active Hour for well-being
• Bronze-level health cash plan

Responsibilities

• Establish and scale the global DevOps operating model across multiple markets
• Lead distributed teams and Communities of Practice
• Drive automation, SRE principles, and end-to-end operational excellence
• Define and enforce ways of working, process templates, and governance
• Develop complex dashboards, queries, and integrations to improve observability and delivery
• Promote IaC (Terraform, ARM templates, Bicep) and robust CI/CD practices
• Coach teams on Datadog adoption for full-stack monitoring and alerting
• Engage with stakeholders including C-suite to communicate strategy and progress

Key requirements

• 12-15 years of progressive DevOps leadership experience in complex enterprise environments
• Proven success in establishing DevOps operating models and driving organizational transformation
• Executive-level communication skills and ability to influence across a matrix organization
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing demands with strategic focus

• Exceptional influencing and organizational skills
• Culturally sensitive and globally minded
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-cultural collaboration
• Azure DevOps (process template management, dashboards, extensions)
• Datadog observability (full-stack monitoring, APM, log management, synthetic monitoring)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM templates, Bicep)