EMEA IT Operations Lead

About this role

Responsibilities

Team Introduction

The EMEA IT Operations team at TikTok manages the IT and AV infrastructure in our offices and ensures services are stable, scalable, secure, and operationally effective across the region. The role requires an experienced, diligent, and astute leader who can operate with a high degree of autonomy, guide team members, and work across a dynamic set of operational, technical, and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational health, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement of EMEA IT infrastructure (LAN, WAN, wireless, AV), ensuring high availability and business continuity.
• Govern technical escalations to internal business-line teams as if managing external service providers, driving SLA accountability, technical boundaries, and strict resolution quality.
• Drive regional observability and service performance by curating real-time dashboards, refining alerts, and leveraging KPIs to optimize capacity and inform decision-making.
• Lead infrastructure hygiene, vulnerability remediation, and change governance (CAB), ensuring proactive patching, policy compliance, and audit-ready traceability.
• Build and deploy automation frameworks to eliminate manual tasks, accelerate service delivery, and enhance regional operational scale.
• Oversee ITSM ticket lifecycles and disciplined escalation management, ensuring strict SLA adherence, effective prioritization, and timely stakeholder updates.
• Provide day-to-day team leadership and quality oversight while acting as a hands-on SME and working to define operational standards, runbooks, and risk documentation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to elevate user experience and service maturity, acting as a trusted ambassador for EMEA IT.
• Manage, maintain, and continuously improve agentic AI and automation workflows that handle baseline IT operations, including ticket triage, monitoring responses, routine remediation, and service coordination.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years experience running enterprise IT Infrastructure teams across multi-site and multi-country environments servicing 1,000s of end users
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
• Excellent written and spoken English skills
• Subject matter expert within Infrastructure management including networking (LAN/WAN, wired and wireless including routing, SDWAN, VPN), scripting and automation, monitoring, comms rooms, AV environments, and broader workplace technology operations
• Highly competent with ITIL frameworks, CAB participation, incident escalation, and infrastructure governance
• Demonstrated experience managing internal or external technical service partners, including ownership of SLAs, escalation paths, service boundaries, and cross-team accountability for operational outcomes
• Enjoys continual change and able to work through ambiguity with pragmatism

Preferred Qualifications

• Competent within Windows and Mac environments
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and delivering within tight timeframes
• Able to work autonomously and as part of an international team
• Demonstrated experience managing, maintaining, and safely operationalizing automation or agentic AI workflows in an enterprise IT operations environment
• Cisco, Aruba, Fortinet, and Palo Alto experience
• Able to demonstrate working in a fluid, dynamic, and continuously evolving environment
• Experience building or refining dashboards, alerting strategies, or infrastructure observability practices

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.​

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.​

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.​

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Diversity & Inclusion​

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.​

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