
Director, AI Operations
Zayo Group
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Colorado • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $142,600 - $219,400 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Create and drive a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, accountability, and safety; champion an automation-first and self-service mindset across IT Operations and Service Delivery.
- Define and execute an AI-enabled operations strategy (AIOps/GenAI) that reduces ServiceDesk dependency through ticket deflection, automated triage, and self-healing workflows.
- Provide managerial and technical leadership to operations engineering, SRE, and automation teams responsible for 24x7 service reliability.
- Oversee workforce planning and resource allocation across operations teams, ensuring staffing levels, skill development, and scheduling align with business priorities and service criticality.
- Establish and govern operational metrics (SLOs/SLAs, MTTR, change failure rate, automation coverage, ticket deflection) and ensure targets are met across platforms.
- Own the design and delivery of self-service capabilities (service catalog, knowledge, virtual agent/chatbot) integrated with ITSM to streamline requests and reduce manual fulfillment.
- Drive the observability and event management architecture (logs/metrics/traces, event correlation, anomaly detection) to proactively detect issues and accelerate diagnosis.
- Standardize runbooks, playbooks, and automated remediation; implement orchestration/workflow automation to reduce operational toil and improve consistency.
- Collaborate with application, security, network, and business teams to align operations strategy, automation roadmaps, and risk controls with enterprise goals.
- Participate in compliance audits and continuously improve controls for automated change execution, data governance, and AI usage in operations.
- Manage vendors and platforms supporting AIOps, ITSM, automation, and monitoring; evaluate emerging solutions and drive proof-of-value.
- Provide leadership to Collaboration, In-office support teams
- Manage the operations automation budget, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time and within budget while optimizing spend through standardization and consolidation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or a total of 14 years of related experience in lieu of education
- Minimum of ten (10) years of related field experience in IT Operations, Service Delivery, SRE, or operational excellence
- Minimum of six (6) years previous managerial experience leading multi-disciplinary operations/automation teams is required.
- Proven experience implementing automation and self-service capabilities that materially reduce ServiceDesk ticket volume and manual effort.
- Experience with ITSM tools and processes (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira Service Management; incident/problem/change; service catalog).
- Practical knowledge of applying Generative AI/LLMs in operations (virtual agents, knowledge retrieval/RAG, summarization, runbook assistance) with appropriate security and governance.
- Previous experience working in a dynamic, high-pressure production environment with customer-facing SLAs/SLOs.
- Previous experience managing platforms with a large internal and/or external customer base.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to influence across engineering, security, and business stakeholders.
- Demonstration of strong decision making, prioritization, and leadership skills with the ability to multi-task and adjust priorities based on workload.
Benefits
- Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
- Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
AIOpsGenerative AIautomationself-service capabilitiesITSMSREoperational metricsorchestrationworkflow automationticket deflection
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationdecision makingprioritizationinterpersonal skillsinfluencecollaborationaccountabilityinnovationadaptability