Team Leader - Cloud Center of Excellence

  

Job Description:

   

Open Source is in our genes. Open to us means more than shared source code. It’s a philosophy and approach that informs everything we do. It’s how we develop software, how we work with partners and customers, and how we engage with communities. Most of all, it’s about keeping our minds open to new ideas. 

 

Leveraging our Linux heritage, we deliver the truly open open source solutions, flexible business practices, lack of enforced vendor lock-in, and exceptional service and support that our customers’ digital transformation demands. Our commitment to open source means adapting it and making it dependable, with highly flexible solutions that are hardened and secured for the most demanding IT environments. 

 

In readiness to operate independently from our current parent company, SUSE is now standing up our own IT function to support and enable the rapid growth of the organization. As part of this new team, we are looking for a  

 

Team Leader - Cloud Center of Excellence  

 

Reporting to: Head of Infrastructure 

Location: Nuremberg, Germany 

 

SUSE is looking for people who are passionate about building the systems, culture, and processes that will improve the resiliency, reliability, scaling, and performance for cloud and on-premise solutions. 

 

Why working at SUSE is great: 

  • Almost 30 years of experience in open source products and technologies 

  • Riding the wave of new trends in technology 

  • The multinational company full of experienced and amazing professionals 

  • Open source is everywhere in our daily job 

  • Flexible working time 

  • Customer first policy. We care about our customers and we mean it! 

  • DevOps and SRE culture. We constantly shrink the gap between Dev and Ops via overcommunication, appropriate tools and shared codebase, we never stop improving our infrastructure 

  • Infrastructure as a code - we don't trust our memory, we test and then run 

  • Agile software development values and principles. We constantly learn how to deliver more value and work smarter, not harder 

Business and technical agility are core objectives of most IT organizations. A cloud center of excellence (CCoE) is a function that creates a balance between speed and stability.  

The fundamental premise of a CCoE approach is to create a cultural shift in IT where it serves as a broker, partner, or representative to the business.  

Each member of the CCoE is tasked with understanding the necessary constraints, risks, and protections that led to the current set of IT controls. The collective efforts of the CCoE should turn that understanding into cloud-native (or hybrid) solutions or controls, which enable the desired self-service business outcomes without losing the controls needed by governance.  

Your responsibilities:

  • Manages activities of individual contributors. 

  • Accountable for department area(s) or location(s) with significant impact on business unit results, organizational strategy, and transformational activities. 

  • May carry project management responsibilities. 

  • Applies strong subject matter knowledge to manage staff activities in solving moderate to complex business/technical issues within established policies. 

  • Understands, articulates, and optimizes application and process capabilities for use by multiple IT constituents. 

  • Directs and controls activities for business or IT area including one or more disciplines. Plans, directs, and monitors high-end operational activities of staff and drives the strategic plan for the team. 

  • Drives architectural simplification and ensures capabilities and applications are done "once for the company". 

  • Understands, articulates, and optimizes application and process capabilities for use by multiple/all business and IT constituents. 

  • Ensures that systems and applications are highly available and meet or exceed performance expectations, and require little to no support. 

  • Ensures team meets or enables achievement of relevant IT metrics and commitments per IT business goals and objectives. 

  • Communicates organizational business plans and strategies and drives performance planning and review. 

  • Provides technical as well as people leadership. 

  • Exerts influence beyond the immediate team; demonstrates business acumen and applies it for effective business engagement with internal customers and effective management of programs and initiatives. 

  • Drives change management in the team or immediate organization; takes personal ownership of the IT strategy and drives support of it. 

 Perfect candidate experience and skills: 

  • Cloud Native workloads/architecture  

  • Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)  

  • Governance of the cloud usage 

  • Change management at scale 

  • Software development practices rooted in Agile Software Development manifesto 

  • Fluent in English, written and verbal 

 

Personal Characteristics: 

  • You are a non-stop learner 

  • You care for your team and its success 

  • You like to work with others on best possible solutions

  • You challenge status quo to drive outstanding quality 

  • You are open for giving and receiving feedback 

  • You can educate others and willing to do that 

  • Willing to learn new things on a daily basis 

Job:

Information Technology

    

SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source software company, powers digital transformation with true open source technologies for the enterprise that simplify, modernize and accelerate traditional, cloud and edge solutions. SUSE collaborates with partners, communities and customers to deliver and support solutions that enable mission-critical business outcomes. SUSE’s container and cloud platforms, software-defined infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and edge computing solutions allow customers to create, deploy and manage workloads anywhere – on premises, hybrid and multi-cloud. For more information, visit www.suse.com.

   

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