Senior Manager IT Operations MISTRAL (m/f/d)

You will be part of an international, experienced and interdisciplinary team with great colleagues. Technology plays an increasingly important role for our globally deployed ships in order to offer our guests an unforgettable vacation on board AIDA.

Therefore we are continuously expanding our expertise through the use of state-of-the-art applications and systems, practical training and qualified employees.

Become part of our team!

We are currently recruiting at our company headquarters in Rostock, Hamburg or fully remote in Germany.

Your chartered goal

• Responsibility for the stable and secure operation of a business-critical application in a global environment
• Ensuring 24/7 availability, managing operational processes and coordinating collaboration between internal teams and external partners
• Implementing and optimizing incident, problem and change management processes according to ITIL standards and in close cooperation with user and software delivery organizations
• Coordination of service providers and internal teams for helpdesk, infrastructure and application support
• Responsibility for compliance and security, including regular audits and disaster recovery tests
• Assuming budget and resource management for operational activities
• Position requires regular travel to Teams in Germany, Italy and US

Your previous ports of call

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent
• Experience Dynatrace for application monitoring and performance tuning
• Hands‑on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) for project and pipeline management
• Several years of experience as an IT Operations Manager / Applications Manager for Business-critical IT-Applications
• Strong knowledge of ITIL, ServiceNow, JIRA, Azure DevOps and Confluence
• Expertise in Cloud and container technologies (e.g., Kubernetes) and CI/CD processes including VM provisioning
• Excellent communication and leadership skills; fluent in English (German is a plus)
• Strong customer and service orientation

Our jobs are not only exciting, creative and varied, but you can also make a big difference at AIDA. Professionally and privately, we inspire our employees with a wide range of benefits. These include:

• Flexible working time models & partly hybrid working
• Working in an international environment characterized by diversity, respect, tolerance & a diverse corporate culture
• Unique team spirit through after work events & joint activities
• Various further education opportunities and trainings
• Free wellbeing offers like yoga classes, nutrition workshops & health lectures
• Employer‑financed retirement arrangement
• Discounted cruises (for you, your family & friends)
• Free ship visits for you, your family & friends
• Discounts in Rostock (job ticket, rental car, restaurant discounts, etc.)
• Free use of AIDA bicycles

Take your career to new places with us! We look forward to receiving your complete application, as an online application at