IT Team Manager (DevOps) at PPG

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

Headquarters: POL - Wrocław
URL: http://ppg.com
Location: Fully remote (Poland, the Czech Republic, or Spain)

About the Role

As IT Manager, you will define and architect the deployment, automation, and management of our cloud applications portfolio and infrastructure. The DevOps team works closely with platform engineering teams, infrastructure architects, product owners, and stakeholders to establish and maintain efficient CI/CD pipelines and deployments. You will support the DevOps team with scripting and automating all environments, software deployments, and supporting infrastructure.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead a global team of fifteen DevOps engineers distributed over different geographies towards the success of different initiatives.
• Develop and implement the DevOps and DevSecOps strategies, aligning them with the company's goals and objectives.
• Establish and maintain best practices for infrastructure automation, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and release management.
• Implement a Community of Practices (CoP), evangelizing best practices in DevOps topics, such as deployment methods and branching strategies.
• Drive automation initiatives to streamline operational tasks, including infrastructure provisioning, release notes, configuration management, and deployment processes.
• Implement and ensure DevOps metrics are met.
• Implement strategy to reduce technical backlog.
• Ensure DevOps guidelines are up-to-date.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation. Proactively propose and implement innovative solutions to optimize software delivery and deployment.
• Participate in the recruitment of IT support personnel.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, security policies, and SOX-related activities.
• Schedule personnel job duties to provide the necessary coverage.
• Organize verbal and written ideas clearly and use an appropriate business style.
• Provide regular updates to appropriate managers.
• Assure that procedures and work instructions are efficient and not redundant.
• Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet, and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively.
• Confer with reporting manager on complex or unusual situations.
• Ensure 100% adherence to all company policies and procedures (i.e., Security, Health, Safety, and Quality).
• Maintain discretion and confidentiality in all areas pertaining to data and proprietary information.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure with changing priorities and deadlines.
• Understand and embrace the business and IT strategic direction.
• Understand business processes and business tools in the current environment.
• Project management as required.
• Organize 24/7 support with the team.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience as a Developer and/or DevOps engineer.
• Strong experience and proficiency with DevOps tooling: containers, scripting, source control, and workflows using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, and Azure DevOps.
• Strong experience and proficiency creating, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD processes and tools in Azure Pipelines.
• Experience driving change across organizations as it pertains to the culture of DevOps.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and logging management (e.g., App Insights, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Strong experience in software development methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Project management experience.
• Interpersonal skills in working with the management and technical teams in a “self-starter” role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Advantages

• 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 toolsets.

About PPG

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD™. Through leadership in innovation, sustainability, and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than any other company.

The PPG Way 2030:

• We are customer champions: Proactive, bold, and trustworthy.
• We act with purpose and speed: Agile, data-driven, and empowered.
• We are excellent operators: Productive, collaborative, and accountable.
• We compete to win: Future-focused, driven, and ambitious.
• We are PPG proud: Strong, united, and passionate.

Additional Information

• AI in Hiring: PPG uses AI in the hiring process to make it more efficient. AI tools do not make hiring decisions. Learn more at https://careers.ppg.com/us/en/candidate-resources.
• Equal Opportunity: PPG provides equal opportunity to all candidates and employees.
• Disability Accommodations: If you need an adjustment due to a disability, please email recruiting@ppg.com.
• Compensation: Pay ranges and benefits vary by location. Factors include skill sets, experience, training, qualifications, education, and organizational needs.

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