Director IT Operations (w/m/d)
Core
Oversee operations and platform development for Germany's largest web portal, managing a high-availability 24/7 infrastructure with 50,000+ hosts and 10 billion monthly page impressions.
Role type
Director of IT Operations (Strategic Leadership & Hands-on Architecture)
Builds
Scalable IT Operations landscape, distributed system architectures, and strategic roadmaps for a high-traffic web platform.
Domain
Internet Services / Web Operations / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
High-availability operations, agile organizational leadership, CAPEX/OPEX budget management, distributed system design, security concepts (DDoS, BCM), technology strategy
Preferred skills
Coaching and organizational development, stakeholder management with top management, project structuring for large-scale infrastructure
Technologies
Ceph, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, HA-Proxy, BGP
Responsibilities
Steer an agile hybrid operations area across five departments and three locations; contribute to system architecture conception and strategic/technical roadmap planning; define goals and coach leadership for personal development; collaborate with software development, product management, and data centers; manage large-scale long-running infrastructure projects.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise