Vice President IT Operations (f/m/d)

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Once you think of containers, you don't think of ships and once you think of cloud native, you don't think of weather, you are at the forefront of technical development and have mastered infrastructures with thousands of servers? For you, continuous optimization in an agile sense means not only technology but also organization and culture? Are you also able to inspire both management and your employees with your vision of shared responsibility for IT operations and development? Then we are looking for you! Take over the operation and platform development for Germany's largest web portal with over 10 billion page impressions per month and over 30,000 servers.

Responsibilities

• In addition to the administration teams, which are spread across three locations, you will also manage the development of our operating platforms (CD/CI, Kubernetes, storage, databases, etc.).
• You will be actively involved in the conception of system architectures as well as the strategic and technical roadmap design.
• You will drive the continuous optimization of availability, scalability, latency and efficiency.
• You develop a strategy for 24/7 availability of the systems, which also takes into account deployments through software development.
• You define goals and track their implementation, you coach managers and support them in terms of a servant leader approach.
• You will work closely with software development and product management as well as our in-house data centers.

Your Profile

Did you start your career in tech, e.g. as a system administrator or developer, and are at home in both worlds (development and operations)? Do you see yourself as a servant leader and can also inspire a team of approx. 80 employees including team leads? Your attitude: “Great developments in companies never come from one person. They are the product of a team.”?

Do you also see yourself described in the points below? Then we look forward to receiving your application.

• You have a technical degree and several years of management experience in development and operations, e.g. as a director, VP, division manager or CTO.
• You can create a vision for IT Operations, define OKRs, further develop the organization or your area and further develop the transformation towards automation and (container) platforms.
• You are familiar with IT and network security implementation.
• You have experience with system design as well as software design of distributed systems.
• You are up-to-date with current IT technologies such as Ceph, Kubernetes, Istio, Cassandra, Prometheus, Elastic Search and GoCD or gitlab CI.
• You are results‑oriented, work in a structured manner and are open to constructive discussions.

Lived corporate culture : Flat hierarchies, a culture of respect and appreciation, signatories of the Diversity Charter, open communication and no dress code

Wide range of further training : Internal and external training opportunities, LinkedIn Learning, language courses, internal and external training opportunities, leadership training, conferences and mentoring and free choice between Linux, Mac, or Windows

TEC-Campus : Conferences, lecture series, courses, open-source projects, community meetups and user groups

❤️ Active health care : Wellpass, free internal sports and fitness classes, health days, family & care support services, discounts at fitness centers, mental health first responder, fresh fruit and drinks for free