IT Team Manager (DevOps) (m/f/x)

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead a global team of fifteen DevOps engineers distributed across geographies
• ▹Develop and implement DevOps and DevSecOps strategies aligned with company goals
• ▹Establish and maintain best practices for infrastructure automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and release management
• ▹Implement a Community of Practices (CoP), evangelizing DevOps best practices (deployment methods, branching strategies)
• ▹Drive automation initiatives: infrastructure provisioning, release notes, configuration management, deployment processes
• ▹Ensure DevOps metrics are met, implement strategy to reduce technical backlog
• ▹Keep DevOps guidelines up to date
• ▹Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, propose and implement innovative solutions
• ▹Participate in recruitment of IT support personnel
• ▹Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, security policies, and SOX-related activities
• ▹Schedule personnel job duties for necessary coverage, organize 24/7 support with the team
• ▹Provide regular updates to managers, project management as required

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• ▹Minimum 2+ years of experience as a Developer and/or DevOps engineer
• ▹Strong experience and proficiency with DevOps tooling - containers, scripting, source control, workflows (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Azure DevOps)
• ▹Strong experience creating, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD processes and tools in Azure Pipelines
• ▹Experience driving organizational change around DevOps culture
• ▹Strong understanding of monitoring and logging management (App Insights, Prometheus, Grafana)
• ▹Strong experience in software development methodologies including Agile and Waterfall
• ▹Demonstrated leadership and project management experience
• ▹Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail

Nice to have

• ▹Agile project experience
• ▹ITIL experience
• ▹Experience working in a well-established DevOps environment
• ▹DevOps certifications (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert)
• ▹Facilitating road-mapping workshops
• ▹Familiarity with custom software development toolset

Soft skills

About the company

PPG helps industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction customers enhance surfaces through leadership in innovation, sustainability, and color; guided by 'The PPG Way 2030' values - customer-focused, agile and data-driven, excellent operators, competitive, and proud.