Director, Tech Enablement

papajohns; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Papa John's is seeking a Director of Technology Enablement to ensure daily operational stability across cloud, networks, and enterprise platforms. You will drive service delivery, incident response, and governance while aligning with business objectives.

The role demands leadership of IT operations teams, strategic planning, and extensive collaboration with architecture, security, and DevOps to maximize reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• Certifications such as ITIL, CompTIA, or cloud platform certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP) preferred.
• Proven IT operations, service management, or infrastructure support experience.
• Strong understanding of SLOs/SLAs and incident management best practices.
• Experience with change management, patch management, and vulnerability remediation.

Responsibilities

• Own 24/7 operational responsibility for all production systems, platforms, and services.
• Lead Major Incident Management with defined escalation paths and incident commander playbooks.
• Oversee service desk operations and ITSM workflows (incidents, requests, changes, problems, knowledge).
• Ensure patching schedules, backup testing, and DR drills are performed.
• Maintain runbooks and change management guardrails; manage capacity and observability.

Skills

IT Operations

Incident Management

SLA/OLA Governance

On-call Management

Vendor & Budget Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

ITIL

CompTIA

Job description

What's Unique About You Is What Makes Us Better! Diversity is our strength and competitive advantage. Bring your flavor to the Papa John's team today!

Job Summary

The Director of Technology Enablement is responsible for the daily operational stability, service performance, and execution of core technology operations across cloud, infrastructure, networks, enterprise platforms, and service delivery. This role ensures production environments remain highly available, fully supported, secure, and compliant, and that operational processes run with discipline, repeatability, and measurable outcomes. This role will also serve as a SME liaison across all of the Technology and Infrastructure group, helping to maximize collaboration beginning with all the foundational compute layout (architecture and networking), to enterprise platform design and build phases, all the way through site reliability and monitoring and observability after production implementations.

Duties and Responsibilities (other duties as assigned)

Operational Command & Production Stability

• Own 24/7 operational responsibility for all production systems, platforms, and services.
• Establish and manage daily operational health checks, system dashboards, and service reviews.
• Lead Major Incident Management (MIM) with defined escalation paths, communicator roles, and incident commander playbooks.
• Maintain runbooks, failover plans, and operational procedures for all critical services.

Service Delivery & Support Operations

• Manage Tier 1-3 operational support teams across infrastructure, cloud, network, SRE/DevOps, and application operations.
• Execute on SLA/OLA frameworks and enforce response/resolution timelines.
• Oversee service desk operations including ITSM workflows (incidents, requests, changes, problems, knowledge).
• Ensure operational readiness for new applications, releases, or infrastructure deployments.

Change, Release, & Deployment Operations

• Help lead the Change Advisory Board (CAB) weekly sessions and enforce change management guardrails.
• Ensure controlled release pipelines, deployment windows, rollback procedures, and post-change validation steps.
• Maintain a controlled maintenance calendar coordinating across all service owners.

Incident, Problem, and RCA Execution

• Enforce clear MTTA/MTTR targets for high-severity events.
• Oversee Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes, ensuring corrective actions and preventative measures are completed.
• Track incident trends, repeat failures, and configuration drift.
• Oversee problem-management routines and drive long-term stability improvements.

Monitoring, Observability & Operational Analytics

• Manage real-time operations dashboards: availability, latency, saturation, capacity, and error rates.
• Ensure proactive alerting, threshold tuning, false-positive reduction, and early-warning detection.
• Run weekly operations review meetings with service owners using KPI-driven analysis.
• Drive capacity monitoring across cloud and data center environments (compute, storage, network).

Infrastructure & Cloud Operations Execution

• Ensure patching schedules, backup success rates, restore testing, and disaster recovery drills are consistently executed.
• Govern configuration management, standard builds, and environment consistency across dev/test/prod.
• Manage provisioning, resource tagging, lease expiration, cost monitoring, and capacity allocation.
• Maintain operational hygiene: certificate renewals, OS lifecycle management, etc.
• Add operational POV to all architectural, networking, storage, and information lifecycle management elements of our PJI technology ecosystem.

Operational Governance, Compliance, & Risk Management

• Own operational controls related to security, compliance, and audit readiness.
• Ensure completion of vulnerability remediation cycles, compliance evidence, and operational control testing.
• Maintain DR runbooks, RTO/RPO compliance, and oversee annual or semiannual DR failover exercises.
• Maintain asset inventories, CMDB accuracy, and configuration baselines.
• Lead technology FinOps practice to streamline and maximize our annual budgetary commitments and vendor partnerships.

Workforce Management & Operational Performance

• Manage shift scheduling, on-call rotations, follow-the-sun support models, and operational staffing levels.
• Ensure operational training, certification, and cross-skilling of team members.
• Run operational playbook updates, SOP reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Education, Experience & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
• Relevant certifications such as ITIL, CompTIA, or cloud platform certifications (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) preferred
• Proven experience in IT operations, service management, or infrastructure support
• Strong understanding of SLOs/SLAs and incident management best practices
• Experience with change management, patch management, and vulnerability remediation

Functional Skills

• Monitoring and ensuring service avail