Team Lead - Private Cloud Platform (f/m/d)

at subsidary 1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE in Karlsruhe
Full-time | Permanent | Executives
Reference ID: M-271

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About us

With our strong brands GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com and over 42 million active users, we are the leading email and communications platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. From this strong market position, services and apps are developed that simplify users' digital lives - from office tools and cloud solutions to personal ID management.

Your Tasks

As head of the team responsible for our private cloud platform, you will be responsible for the further development and operation of one of the largest private Kubernetes bare-metal cloud infrastructures in Europe. The team is part of our modern platform organization, where we lay the foundations for our modern software architecture. In close coordination with users, stakeholders and other teams, we develop powerful infrastructure and tooling for our DevOps world.

In addition to Kubernetes, Istio and Calico, the technology stack also includes tools such as GitLab CI, Vault, Prometheus and many others. With over 50,000 CPU cores and 1,000 servers, we efficiently provide almost 1,000 software applications with highly available and dynamic IT performance - sustainably for our more than 42 million mail & cloud users.

Do you enjoy working in the context of the latest technologies and understand the concepts and requirements for highly available, large-scale infrastructures? You know that in highly complex technology worlds, leadership means above all trust, relationship building, employee empowerment and the promotion of communication and continuous learning? Do you believe that the key to successful solutions lies in collaboration? Then we are looking for you! Develop together with your team and the central runtime platform for Germany's leading e-mail and cloud providers WEB.DE and GMX.

Your responsibility:

• Strategic leadership: You lead, develop and support a team of currently 9 highly qualified and experienced System Engineers.
• Innovation and technology: You are passionate about innovative automation, infrastructure-as-code and self-service cloud platforms. State-of-the-art technologies and working methods are a priority for you.
• Leading-by-Example: You are a role model for personal responsibility/ownership, collaboration and service mentality.
• Stakeholder Engagement: You actively establish and shape a close and trusting relationship with stakeholders to achieve optimal alignment and the best possible support for our products and services.

We Appreciate

Do you have a technical degree or a comparable qualification? Leadership is not just a career step for you? Are you passionate about innovation, infrastructure-as-code, quality and sustainability? Do you feel comfortable in a multicultural environment and are you strong in communication at various levels? Are you a real team player? Then we look forward to receiving your application!

• You have already successfully demonstrated your leadership qualities in a comparable position and an international environment and are passionate about promoting and supporting your team.
• You are enthusiastic about modern container architectures such as Kubernetes, automation frameworks (GitLab CI) and also have experience in development with e.g. Python or Go.
• You have several years of operational experience in the above-mentioned technologies.
• You are familiar with business contexts in an IT context.
• You are a strong communicator in English and German.

What else we would like to tell you

• Our corporate culture: 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

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