Job Description Summary:
Director, Technical Operations
Being at the forefront of innovation is exciting, and leading transformation in a large global organization is a role that many people aspire to. If this is you, we have a transformational role in our newly developed platform services organization.
The Director, Tech Operations leads global technology operations for Coca-Cola’s MarTech and AdTech platforms, with end-to-end accountability for Level 2 incident resolution, platform reliability, and operational excellence across all regions. The role brings an AI-augmented, agent-driven approach to how operations are run, monitored, and continuously improved. The Director is a technologist who understands the platforms deeply, works hand in hand with the development teams, and leads a team that builds and maintains AI agents for monitoring, detection, diagnosis, and automated remediation of systems and platforms worldwide. The successful leader pairs strong operational discipline with GenAI fluency, raising service quality and resilience while reducing manual toil and mean time to resolution.
What You’ll Do for Us:
- Own global Level 2 (L2) operations and incident resolution for MarTech / AdTech platforms, leading a follow-the-sun team to deliver high reliability, fast resolution, and a consistently strong service experience.
- Lead the team that builds and maintains AI agents for monitoring and operations: agentic detection, event correlation, alert-noise reduction, automated triage, root-cause analysis, and self-healing remediation across systems and platforms globally.
- Drive the shift from traditional ticket processing to AI-augmented operations, redesigning workflows, runbooks, and team roles around GenAI capabilities and intelligent automation rather than manual handling.
- Stay deeply technical: understand the platforms and architecture well enough to partner directly with development teams on observability, instrumentation, reliability fixes, and operability of new releases.
- Advance observability and reliability maturity (SRE / SLOs): improve telemetry across logs, metrics, and traces, strengthen incident-response readiness, and enforce root-cause-analysis discipline that prevents repeat incidents.
- Establish guardrails and governance for operational AI: ensure agents act safely and within policy, with human-in-the-loop controls, safe rollback, and resilience against unsafe actions, prompt injection, and data exposure.
- Build and lead a tech-savvy, GenAI-literate operations team, upskilling talent from traditional support toward AIOps, automation, and agent operations, and recruiting new capabilities where gaps exist.
- Identify systemic bottlenecks in reliability, performance, cost, and operational toil, and lead improvements that compound over time across the global platform estate.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and regional stakeholders to align on operational readiness, release operability, and clear ownership of risks and dependencies.
- Define and report operational metrics (MTTR, MTTD, uptime/SLOs, automation rate, ticket deflection, cost-to-serve) to leadership, demonstrating the business value of the AI-augmented operating model.
Qualifications & Requirements
10+ years of experience in technology operations or engineering, including significant experience leading L2/production operations or SRE for large-scale, high-availability platforms, with proven people-leadership.
Hands-on technical depth: strong understanding of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure), distributed systems, APIs, and modern observability tooling, with the credibility to work directly with development teams.
AIOps & agentic operations (Preferred): demonstrated experience applying AI/ML and GenAI to operations, including anomaly detection, event correlation, automated remediation, and building or operating AI agents and agentic workflows for monitoring.
GenAI literacy: familiarity with LLM integration, agent frameworks, RAG, evaluation and guardrails, and the security and cost disciplines of running AI in production.
Operational rigor: deep grasp of incident management, on-call, runbook automation, CI/CD, and reliability engineering, with a track record of reducing MTTR and manual toil.
Transformation leadership: proven ability to modernize a traditional support or operations function into an automated, outcome-driven model, including upskilling and reshaping teams.
Global team leadership: experience leading globally distributed operations teams, including a mix of in-house and strategic vendor talent, across regions.
Communication: strong written and verbal communication, able to align stakeholders and translate operational performance into business outcomes for executives.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field required; advanced degree preferred. An equivalent combination of relevant education, training, and demonstrated experience is also considered.
What We’ll Do for You
Exposure to World-Class Leaders: Availability to global technology leaders will expand your network and expose you to emerging technologies and techniques.
Global Connections: Allows you to develop, enhance and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile, with management that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to experiment, iterate, and innovate
Skills:
Pay Range:
United States of America: 171,000 USD - 198,000 USDBase pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
30Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Location(s):
United States of AmericaCity/Cities:
AtlantaTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
NoJob Posting End Date:
August 14, 2026Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.Skills Required
- 10+ years experience in technology operations or engineering, including leading L2/production operations or SRE for large-scale, high-availability platforms
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure), distributed systems, and APIs
- Experience with modern observability tooling and telemetry across logs, metrics, and traces
- GenAI literacy including LLM integration, agent frameworks, RAG, evaluation and guardrails, and security/cost discipline for AI in production
- Operational rigor in incident management, on-call, runbook automation, CI/CD, and reliability engineering with track record reducing MTTR
- Proven transformation leadership to modernize support/operations toward automation and outcome-driven models
- Experience leading globally distributed operations teams including in-house and vendor talent
- Strong written and verbal communication, able to align stakeholders and report operational metrics to executives
- Experience applying AI/ML and agentic operations to monitoring, anomaly detection, event correlation, automated remediation (AIOps)
- Advanced degree (MBA/MS/PhD) in relevant field
The Coca-Cola Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Coca-Cola Company and has not been reviewed or approved by The Coca-Cola Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a standout, combining a 401(k) match with a company-funded cash-balance pension and an employee stock purchase plan match that together materially increase long-term package value.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and feature-rich, including national medical coverage plus specialized add-ons like virtual care, second opinions, oncology navigation, fertility support, and chronic-condition programs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are outlined with structured vacation accrual that increases with tenure and a holiday program that includes both set and floating days.
The Coca-Cola Company Insights
What We Do
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. In addition to the company’s Coca-Cola brands, our portfolio includes some of the world’s most valuable beverage brands, such as AdeS soy-based beverages, Ayataka green tea, Dasani waters, Del Valle juices and nectars, Fanta, Georgia coffee, Gold Peak teas and coffees, Honest Tea, innocent smoothies and juices, Minute Maid juices, Powerade sports drinks, Simply juices, smartwater, Sprite, vitaminwater and ZICO coconut water.
