Vice President IT Operations (f/m/d)

1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE - GMX | WEB.DE | mail.com; Karlsruhe; Vor Ort; EUR 100.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology company is seeking a Vice President for Information Technology Operations. The role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership skills to manage teams, optimize operations across a large scale infrastructure, and drive IT strategy. This position offers the opportunity to influence the organizational culture and direction in a well-established environment.

Leistungen

Company pension scheme

Job ticket

Bike leasing

Attractive working conditions

Subsidised canteen

Qualifikationen

• Several years of management experience in development and operations.
• Experience with system design and software design of distributed systems.
• Familiarity with current IT technologies.

Aufgaben

• Manage the operation and platform development for a large web portal.
• Drive continuous optimization of IT systems.
• Coach managers with a servant leader approach.

Kenntnisse

Vision for IT Operations

IT and network security implementation

System design

Software design of distributed systems

Results-oriented work style

Structured approach

Open to discussions

Ausbildung

Technical degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Ceph

Cassandra

Prometheus

Elastic Search

GoCD

GitLab CI

Jobbeschreibung

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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.

• 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.
• Our corporate culture: „You“ culture and no dress code, flat hierarchies, open and transparent communication
• Individual development opportunities: diverse training programmes, e-learning and internal communities, leadership training, language courses, mentoring
• Benefits and additional services: company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits, discounts on own products, job ticket, company car, bike leasing, corporate benefits portal
• Attractive working conditions: 30 days holiday, hybrid working, full-time and part-time arrangements, free choice between Linux, Mac or Windows
• Social: team events, summer and winter parties, family and care service, sports and fitness programmes, subsidised canteen, free fruit and drinks, health courses
• Topics that are also important to us: Sustainability, diversity and our values and leadership principles - find out more on our website mail-and-media.com

Reference ID: 242

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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