Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Leadership – Lead the North American infrastructure and DevOps teams, setting vision, priorities, and performance goals in alignment with global engineering strategy.
- Cloud Operations – Oversee AWS cloud environments, ensuring availability, cost optimization, and adherence security/architectural best practices.
- DevOps & Automation – Drive CI/CD pipeline maturity and infrastructure-as-code, enabling repeatable, reliable, and secure deployments.
- Media Player OS Management – Oversee the lifecycle, security, and updates of Coates’ media player OS across customer fleets.
- Monitoring & Observability – Implement and continuously refine alerting, logging, and monitoring frameworks to maintain high uptime and service performance.
- Governance & Compliance – Establish and maintain standards for change control, security, and documentation across environments.
- Collaboration with Product & Delivery – Partner closely with Product Management and Delivery teams to ensure infrastructure supports roadmap goals and SLAs for NAM customers.
- Continuous Improvement – Champion an automation-first mindset, reducing technical debt and improving the speed and quality of deployments.
- Mentorship & Development – Build capability within the team through coaching, skill development, and fostering a culture of curiosity and ownership.
Capabilities
- Technical Leadership – Inspires excellence through deep technical credibility and empathetic leadership.
- Strategic Thinking – Balances immediate operational needs with long-term platform evolution and scalability.
- Operational Discipline – Enforces standards, ensures consistent monitoring, and drives incident management best practices.
- Collaborative Partnership – Works effectively across Engineering, Product, and Delivery to achieve business outcomes.
- Adaptability – Thrives in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities and evolving technologies.
- Communication – Translates complex infrastructure concepts into business language for stakeholders.
- Accountability – Owns results, fosters transparency, and ensures delivery of reliable and secure infrastructure services.
Qualifications
- Technical Skills:
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, and systems operations; 3+ years in a leadership capacity.
- Deep expertise in AWS environments, including cloud architecture, networking, IAM, and cost management.
- Strong background in Linux system administration, scripting (Bash, Python), and automation frameworks.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).
- Proven implementation of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, or similar) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc).
- Hands-on experience managing monitoring and alerting tools such as Sumo Logic, Grafana, or Prometheus.
- Experience with cybersecurity best practices and compliance frameworks.
- Knowledge of global infrastructure operations across distributed regions.
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- Additional Knowledge (Preferred):
- Exposure to ITIL service management practices.
- Familiarity with media device management or digital signage systems preferred.
Top Skills
What We Do
Coates Group is a growing global technology and digital merchandising solutions provider creating immersive experiences for some of the world's leading brands and their customers.
We are focused on creating dynamic, personalised and engaging experiences powered by our range of digital hardware and proprietary content management system. If you’ve ordered in-store or in the Drive-Thru at McDonald’s somewhere in the world, chances are you’ve interacted with our digital solutions!
We work across 50+ global markets with our headquarters located in Sydney, Australia and other offices in Japan, India, China, the Middle East, Canada, Europe and the United States.
Our people who we proudly call our “Crew” are at the heart of everything that we do. So, it is our commitment to empower and develop the people that set us apart. This is done by implementing new policies that our people care about like an annual market competitive bonus program, opportunities for growth and prioritisation for learning and development that includes kick-starting our new wellbeing program called Thrive.
The cornerstone of Thrive is our flexible work approach, including a suite of flexible work options because we are believers that you should never miss an important life or work moment. Thrive also equips our crew with wellness tools and dedicated time to prioritise our health with Yoga and Meditation programs as well as a Global Wellness Day off to enjoy and recharge plus a Give Back Day for the opportunity to make an impact on the community.
Be part of a global team of talented, ambitious, creative people that value integrity, individuality and inclusivity. (Ask us about our Equality + Empowerment Initiatives).
We are one global crew with diverse perspectives that make us stronger. We are curious, charismatic and authentic. And together, we make our purpose become a reality, to create immersive brand experiences for everyone







