Internship Global Program - Service Management Intern - Jumia (Full Time)

Greenhouse Software, Inc.; Porto; Presencial; EUR 10 000 - 15 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Growth opportunities

Dynamic team environment

Professional development

Resumo da oferta

Jumia in Porto, Portugal is seeking an Internship Global Program - Service Management Intern to join a centralised Service Management team. You will help shape processes for Tier 1 events, infrastructure readiness, and cross-border coordination.

You will support global event readiness, application lifecycle checks, and go-live support, while documenting procedures and driving continuous improvement with Engineering, Security, and Operations teams.

Qualificações

• Degree or CET in IT, Information Systems, CS, or related field (ongoing or recently completed).
• Strong written and verbal English communications; comfortable with cross-border calls.

Responsabilidades

• Global Event Readiness: build and maintain checklists, run-books, and docs for Tier 1 Events across countries.
• Application Life-cycle Management: support lifecycle for new applications and ensure infrastructure/security prerequisites are met at launch.
• Cross-Function Coordination: organise readiness reviews and dry-run sessions with Engineering, Security, Operations, and Service Management.
• Contract Readiness: verify infrastructure contracts are active and extended for go-lives and high-traffic events.
• Go-Live Support: track readiness criteria, follow up on items, and provide war room support during Tier 1 Events.
• Continuous Improvement: capture lessons learned from incidents and go-lives to improve readiness frameworks.

Conhecimentos

Communication

Organisation & Detail

Mindset

Tech-Savy

English Fluency

Formação académica

Degree or CET in IT/related field

Ferramentas

Google Workspace

Jira

ServiceNow

Confluence

Datadog

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Internship Global Program - Service Management Intern - Jumia (Full Time)

Porto; Portugal

About Jumia:

Jumiais a leading pan-African e-commerce platform. Its mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to customers, while helping businesses grow as they use Jumia's platform to better reach and serve customers.

Jumia is built around a marketplace and supported by a proprietary logistics business[Jumia Logistics]and a digital payment and fintech platform[Jumia Pay]. With over 3,000 employees, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating a sustainable impact in Africa.

In April 2019, Jumia was the first Tech company in Africa to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

About the role

Join a centralised Service Management team dedicated to driving operational excellence.In this role, you will help shape our processes from the ground up, supporting our efforts to ensure that our infrastructure, security, and global teams are perfectly aligned for Tier 1 events and major application launches.

What you will be doing

• Global Event Readiness: Collaborate on building and maintaining readiness checklists, run-books, and documentation for Tier 1 Events, helping to ensure all participating countries execute required infrastructure and load-testing activities.
• Application Life-cycle Management: Support the operational life-cycle for applications created. You will help the team confirm that upon launch, all infrastructure and security prerequisites (e.g., IP configurations) are fully met.
• Cross-Function Coordination:Assist in organising readiness reviews and dry-run sessions alongside stakeholder teams across Engineering, Security, Operations, and Service Management.
• Contract Readiness:Help verify that infrastructure contracts are organised, active, and extended as needed to support application go-lives and high-traffic events.
• Go-Live Support: Participate in tracking readiness criteria, following up on open items, and providing war room support during Tier 1 Events and post-go-live hyper-care activities.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to gathering lessons learned from incidents and go-lives, feeding them back into the readiness framework to improve our operational standards and tooling.

What we are looking for

• Education: Degree, CET, or equivalent in Business Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related IT field (ongoing or recently completed).
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication, with the confidence to actively participate in and help facilitate calls with international, cross-border teams.
• Organisation & Detail: Impeccable attention to detail with an ability to help juggle multiple readiness checklists and stakeholder follow-ups.
• Mindset: A proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability; comfortable learning and working in a fast-paced, newly centralised team environment.
• Tech-Savy: Proficiency with Google Workspace (especially Sheets and documentation tools) and a basic understanding of IT service management, software delivery concepts, and AI tools.
• Language: Fluency in English (written and spoken).

This is not mandatory, but could help you stand out

• Exposure to ITIL concepts (Incident, Change, or Release Management).
• Previous internship or academic project involving process documentation, project coordination, or IT operations.
• Familiarity with ticketing, project management, or monitoring tools (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow, Confluence, Datadog).
• Basic understanding of IT infrastructure, security networks (like IP configurations), or vendor/contract management.

We Offer:

• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders