Manager - Foundational Identity Security

Your Job

As a Manager, Foundational Identity Security, you will lead the strategy, operation, reliability, security, and continuous improvement of our Tier 0 Active Directory, Domain Name System, and Public Key Infrastructure services.

You will serve as the single point of accountability for service outcomes while leading a globally distributed team. This role combines service ownership, people leadership, technical direction, stakeholder engagement, and operational leadership to keep these foundational services resilient, secure, sustainable, and aligned with business needs.

Our Team

The Linux Service Team within Koch Technologies delivers reliable, secure, and resilient Linux infrastructure that enables our partners to achieve and accelerate their business outcomes. We are seeking team players that are dedicated to creating rock solid operations while building relationships with our internal business partners.

Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Plano, TX / Atlanta, GA and requires an in office presence with flexibility.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship

What You Will Do

Own the end-to-end health, lifecycle, roadmap, and outcomes of Active Directory, DNS, and PKI services, aligning priorities and investments with business, security, architecture, and operational needs

Lead, coach, and develop a globally distributed technical team, establishing clear priorities and accountability across operations, engineering, risk remediation, and strategic initiatives

Identify and manage service risks, critical dependencies, technical debt, capacity constraints, recovery requirements, and single points of failure

Establish effective monitoring, alerting, support, escalation, continuity, recovery, and operational-readiness practices appropriate for Tier 0 services

Lead incident, problem, request, and change management activities, including coordinating responses to significant disruptions and driving sustainable corrective actions

Define and monitor KPIs, SLAs, SLOs, and service-health measures; use operational data and trends to prioritize automation, standardization, risk reduction, and continuous improvement

Partner across business, security, infrastructure, architecture, engineering, and operations teams to communicate service health, resolve cross-functional dependencies, and make informed tradeoffs among security, reliability, resilience, cost, sustainability, and delivery speed

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading or owning enterprise identity, cybersecurity, infrastructure, or other business-critical technology services
• Experience leading and developing technical employees, including responsibility for work prioritization, performance management, coaching, development, and accountability
• Experience leading globally distributed technical teams and delivering outcomes through direct leadership and cross-functional influence
• Experience applying incident, problem, change, configuration, lifecycle, risk, and service-performance management practices
• Experience translating technical risks, service health, and operational priorities into business context for technical and nontechnical stakeholders

What Will Put You Ahead

Experience owning or supporting Tier 0 or similarly critical enterprise technology services

Experience with Active Directory, Domain Name System, Public Key Infrastructure, or related identity and infrastructure technologies

Experience applying ITIL practices and using service metrics, operational dashboards, CMDB data, or service-management data to drive decisions

Experience leading modernization, automation, reliability improvement, recovery-readiness, or technical-debt-reduction initiatives

Experience building team capability and succession depth through development planning, cross-training, knowledge sharing, and documentation

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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