Manager, Cloud Operations - Remote/Hybrid (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Germany

What is Jedox?
Jedox is an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) SaaS platform that empowers business professionals to capture data, share knowledge, and align on common goals across the organization. Organizations can streamline any data-driven process – from strategic planning to complex predictive analytical models or operational performance monitoring. We empower organizations to deliver adaptable plans that outperform expectations.

Jedox planning and performance management solutions power your business to achieve a culture of decisiveness and confidence, enabling you to react quickly to changes, plan for opportunities, and uncover what you didn’t know was possible. 

We are in process of switching to a Cloud-only infrastructure and growing our internal team to ensure customers worldwide can enjoy the power of a great plan without boundaries. In this context, the Manager of Cloud Operations, (formally titled Manager, Cloud Excellence) has never been so vital; this individual will help us provide our customers with the best experience in our Cloud environment. You will be responsible for the hands-on technology and business services for operations and delivery of Cloud offerings. 

You will have overall responsibility for the day-to-day Infrastructure operations of the Cloud Services, including rolling out patches and upgrades, change management, event management, incident response, cloud security, capacity planning, availability management, BC/DR, etc.

Position is to be filled with an individual currently located in Germany. Remote, hybrid, and onsite working models are all offered with offices located in Frankfurt and Freiburg.

Candidates located outside of Germany would be required to relocate.

More information about our locations and company can be found here!
Your Responsibilities
 In this role, you will:
  • Lead teams of external cloud engineers to provide guidance, set priorities, and foster professional development.
  • Work with Jedox Support, Development, Engineering teams, and other peers to enable an operational environment for new and existing services on the Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Respond to incidents, escalations, outages, and other operational issues in a timely and effective manner so as to minimize the impact on Jedox customers.
  • Ensure that the cloud environment meets Security, Audit standards, and compliance regulations.
  • Monitor and optimize cloud spending to make sure resources are used efficiently and cost-effectively.
  • Implement and test backup, disaster recovery, and continuity plans to ensure data and services are protected in case of failure.
  • Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of cloud-based applications and services.
  • Collect and report on key operational and service level agreement metrics.
  • Enable dashboards and reports, to enable data-driven decisions and improvements across the whole Cloud Department.
  • Develop and maintain organizational policies, procedures, and processes to expand the Knowledge Management for Cloud department.
Your Profile
We are looking for a combination of the below skill sets and attributes:
  • 6+ years of experience in Cloud Operations, Cloud Support, Service Delivery or any similar field, with high exposure to customers systems.
  • 3 + years of experience in People Management and Team Leadership in a fast-paced SaaS environment, experience working with external consultants and customers is vital.
  • 4+ years of experience with a main Cloud provider (Azure experience preferred), with the ability to build and run consistent global operations for customers.
  • Proven experience with customer escalation management, with a high sense of urgency and ability to act against the contractual SLAs.
  • Good understanding of Kubernetes (AKS), Microservices, with expertise in implementing infrastructure and automation.
  • Experience with some trending technologies such as Grafana, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Thanos, Robusta etc.
  • Good understanding of ITIL4 processes: change, incident, problem, request fullfilment, escalation management.
  • Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to identify patterns and trends, to initiate and drive improvement actions.
  • Outstanding interpersonal, leadership, organizational, and project management aptitudes.
  •  Excellent communication skills (communicating and reporting technical concepts to business and IT stakeholders).
  • Business level proficiency (C1) and command of German language is a must; Intermediate/Advance (B2 and above) level English is also required.

    Nice to have:
  • Experience with Incident Response and Communication toolset: StatusPage, Pagerduty or any similar tool.
  • Experience with the cloud providers AWS, GCP, Tanzu.
  • Good understanding of Methodologies Prince, Agile, Six Sigma or LEAN.
About us

Jedox is a leading software solution that enables business planning, budgeting, and forecasting for finance, sales, and other business functions with leading-edge technology to drive Digital Transformation and provide tangible customer value. Constant innovation has made us a leader in the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) sector. 
 

Our Values:

At Jedox, we pride ourselves on our core  corporate values, which drive our success as a team.

Our growth mindset encourages  us to constantly learn, evolve and innovate, pushing ourselves to new heights.  We work together as #OneTeam OneJedox,  with a shared passion for achieving excellence in everything we do. We execute with precision and hold ourselves to the highest standards of excellence,  ensuring that we deliver impactful results  that exceed our customers' expectations. Our focus on people  centricity ensures that our employees are at the heart of everything we do, enabling us to  attract and retain top talent. We believe that effective communication  and engagement  are key to building strong relationships, both internally and with our  customers, partners and stakeholders.

       

Why should you join our team? 

At Jedox, we want our customers to achieve #Superplännen. It is that exhilarating  feeling when an organization performs how it envisioned it.
When y
ou plan for the future and achieve your goals, we call it Superplännen, and we want you to achieve the same. This is why at Jedox our culture is shaped by our global collaboration, passion for people and  development, diversity, and commitment to innovation. We refer to it as our  #OneTeam mantra, which is ingrained in everything we do. 

 
We believe in lifelong learning and encourage team members to pursue personal and professional development, including internal & external training and certifications. We also enjoy meeting regularly (online or in persona) with each  other all across the world for work, team events, to spend quality time together & have fun, or even do sports together.

The same effort and attention are being given to ensure employee satisfaction in an out of the office. Some of those perks include:   

  • Flexible work: we love to work together in the offices as #Oneteam, but we also enjoy the possibility of working from everywhere and owning working hours.   

  • Take time to care for yourself: We offer generous vacation time and comprehensive health benefits plans, including Pension  plans. 

  • Plan for your future: Planning means something different to everyone. Work with your Line Manager to implement a career growth plan that suits your path.

  • Reduce your footprint: All offices are centrally located and can be easily reached via public transportation. Most Jedox offices offer public transit reimbursement or other perks like bike leasing.

  • High-impact  working environment: we enjoy flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes.

  • Get  corporate discounts across many brands and products.

Jedox is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and does not discriminate based on color, religion or belief, nationality, social or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the laws and regulations in the geographic locations in which we operate.

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