DevOps Lead

Executive engagement. Lead technical conversations with customer CIOs and CTOs — scoping deployments, resolving escalations, and building the trust that keeps strategic relationships strong. Represent PhysicsX as the senior technical voice in your region.

Deployment oversight. Own the deployment programme across your accounts. That means understanding the status of every active deployment, identifying blockers before they become problems, and being the person your team and your customers can rely on when things get complicated.

Cross-functional alignment. Work closely with delivery leads in New York and elsewhere to make sure commercial commitments and deployment realities are in sync. Surface risks early. Provide the ground-level input that shapes how we scope and sell deployments.

Team building. Recruit, onboard, and develop deployment engineers in your region. Define what good looks like, create the processes that make the team repeatable at scale, and build a culture of technical rigour and customer accountability.

Hands-on involvement. When a deployment is particularly complex — a novel infrastructure environment, a difficult security review, a customer escalation that needs senior technical judgement — you get involved directly. You're not a pure manager; you're the most experienced person on the team.

A track record of leading technical teams delivering complex infrastructure or platform deployments into enterprise environments

Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Open Stack, RHOS) — enough to lead technical conversations with your team and with customer engineering leadership. You will need to be accountable for the technical quality of the team’s output.

Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Crossplane, Terraform, Helm) and the OCI ecosystem

Experience navigating enterprise IT organisations: security reviews, procurement processes, and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences

Proven ability to build relationships with senior technical executives (CTO, CIO, VP Engineering) at large organisations

Experience hiring and growing technical teams

Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, and in the room

Willingness to travel to customer sites within your region, and occasionally internationally, for an average of 3–4 weeks per quarter

Experience in regulated or high-security environments is a must

Experience with on-prem / HPC type “scientific” environments is a nice to have