Director, Global IT Infrastructure and Operations

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About Amyris

Amyris uses its biomanufacturing platform to transform industries to renewable biological chemistry, with operations in the United States and Brazil. Its Computing organization empowers, improves, and innovates computational, data, and technology systems across Amyris to achieve operational excellence, supporting a unique mix of SaaS, custom software, and AI capabilities powering enterprise, R&D pipeline, and manufacturing operations.

Position Overview

The IT Director is a technical leader accountable for the engineering, reliability, and operation of Amyris’s global IT infrastructure across networks, servers, endpoints, cybersecurity, knowledge management, and the service desk. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with leadership of internal IT teams and MSPs in the United States and Brazil, partnering across Computing and the enterprise to maintain and advance the infrastructure upon which our SaaS and custom platforms rely.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on DevOps leader (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, observability) with enterprise architecture experience across networking, identity, security, databases, and infrastructure. They turn ambiguous demands into well-defined, automated, and documented solutions. The role keeps regular overlap with both US Pacific and Brazil working hours.

Location: Hybrid in Emeryville, CA.

Key Responsabilities

IT Operations

- Own reliable, secure, and responsive IT operations delivered by internal teams and MSPs, with clear service ownership, escalation paths, and accountability for service levels and outcomes.

- Oversee service desk, endpoint, network, server, identity, collaboration, and knowledge-management operations, with disciplined incident, request, problem, and change management.

- Drive continuous improvement via a data-driven approach, using operational data to identify systemic issues and apply preventive or corrective actions.

- Lead major-incident response, including technical diagnosis and root-cause investigation, and partner with Computing peers during outages affecting pipeline, manufacturing, and enterprise systems; ensure root-cause investigations drive lasting improvements.

- Maintain authoritative architecture, configuration, asset, licensing, and operational documentation to control costs and risk, and support lifecycle and provider transitions.

- Serve as Amyris’s designated escalation contact and technical approver for MSP work, including change-advisory approval, security operations review, invoice validation against contracted scope, and confirmation that automated alerts and reports are acted on are appropriately triaged.

Infrastructure Project Delivery & Technical Leadership

- Lead complex infrastructure and security programs from business case and technical design through adoption, including network modernization, CIS Controls implementation, endpoint refreshes, data and SharePoint migrations, and cloud migrations.

- Define project scope, milestones, resources, risks, budgets, and success criteria; maintain transparent governance through delivery and transition to operations.

- Provide hands-on technical leadership across infrastructure, cloud, endpoints, identity, security, and service-management platforms, including troubleshooting, validation, and automation when needed.

- Challenge designs, statements of work, and change plans to ensure solutions are secure, supportable, cost-effective, and standards-aligned.

- Coordinate internal staff, MSP engineers, vendors, and business stakeholders to remove blockers, make timely decisions, and deliver measurable outcomes.&nb