Technical Operations Manager, Sovereign Operations

Google Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google London, UK, is seeking a Technical Operations Manager for Sovereign Operations to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for private cloud deployments with high security requirements.

You will balance tactical operations with strategic infrastructure planning, ensuring platform readiness and stability, while driving automation and hardening standards across delivery, engineering integration, and live systems support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• 8+ years experience with Linux/operating systems, compute infrastructure, and enterprise cloud environments.
• 5+ years leading technical engineering teams in live production or operational settings.
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Active or eligible for UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor infrastructure and systems teams to design robust enterprise architectures.
• Oversee deployment, end-to-end configuration, and maintenance of air-gapped cloud solutions.
• Serve as a senior technical point of contact during incidents, troubleshooting across Linux,Hypervisors, and networking.
• Coordinate with internal product, development, and external vendors to elevate core issues and support onboarding and integration.
• Drive automated operational approaches to maximize availability and minimize toil.

Skills

Linux/Unix systems

Cloud infrastructure

Technical leadership

Outcomes ownership

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Enterprise networking

Air-gapped cloud deployments

Job description

Technical Operations Manager, Sovereign Operations

Google London, UK

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience working with Linux and operating systems architecture, compute infrastructure, and supporting or maintaining enterprise cloud environments.
• 5 years of experience leading technical engineering teams in a live production or operational environment.
  
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience implementing high-security projects within fast-changing, customer-focused environments.
• Experience working with/within data center operations and in highly regulated infrastructure environments.
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Kubernetes, along with enterprise-grade operating systems (Linux/Unix environments).
• Familiarity with network engineering across Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.
• Proven track record of automating common operational tasks to improve system resilience and platform scalability.
• Active or previous UK Developed Vetting (DV) or Security Check (SC) Security Clearance.

About the job

The UK Sovereign Operations team in Google Public Sector delivers, operates and secures private cloud services. We aim to provide the flexibility, reliability, and scalability of public cloud for customers with exceptionally high security requirements that can only be met in a private cloud environment. We deliver and operate these private cloud deployments for the most critical customers, helping scale, secure and maintain the deployment whilst working closely with Google product teams to continually improve our technology.

As a Technical Operations Manager, you will act as one of the engineering leaders guiding a multidisciplinary team of infrastructure, systems, and network engineers. In this role, you will balance tactical day-to-day operations with strategic infrastructure planning across delivery, engineering integration, and live systems support. You will be directly responsible for the operational readiness and stability of our platforms, serving as a critical point of escalation during technical incidents while driving automation and hardening standards. This role will require participation in a manager rotating on-call schedule.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting‑edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor teams of infrastructure and systems development engineers to design and execute robust enterprise architectures.
• Manage the deployment, end‑to‑end configuration, and continuous maintenance of air‑gapped cloud computing solutions.
• Act as a senior technical point of contact during critical operational incidents, troubleshooting complex issues across Linux/operating systems environments, hypervisors, and networking stacks.
• Coordinate directly with internal product, development, and external vendor engineering teams to elevate core software or hardware issues and advocate for the needs of the operator. Act as a point of contact for customers to ensure smooth onboarding and integration of technical and non‑technical requirements.
• Drive modern, automated approaches to platform operations, systems provisioning, and infrastructure monitoring to maximize availability and reduce operational toil.

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