Stellenbeschreibung

For our client we are looking for a Delivery and Operations Manager (f/m/d)

Start: 06.04.2026
Duration: 6 months, + wish for a long-term prolongation
Capacity: 100%
Location: 75% Remote, 25% Frankfurt or Berlin (1 week Frankfurt / 3 weeks remote in rotation), up to 50% onsite in peak times
Language: English is a must, German is a plus

Role:
The Product Line is responsible for a product portfolio central to the platform, consisting of an Infrastructure as a Service Product, a managed Kubernetes Service, a resource management service to facilitate scalable management of platform permissions and a service lifecycle workflow engine enabling.
The team also provides a centralized Observability as a Service Offering and builds the central container image registry and deployment tooling for all Kubernetes based deployements. All services together constitute a core part of an on-premise private cloud platform for all business applications of the client, including IT/OT critical applications. For the whole product portfolio, the product line owns the complete product flow, from product management, architecture, delivery up until Tier 3 operations. 

Objectives:
- Coordination of timely delivery
- Release and dependency Management
- Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and Risk management
- Technical Implementation of Processes
- Incident Management and Change Management

Profile Requirements:
The contractor must be a senior level professional with 4+ years of experience in delivery and operations management of private cloud solutions, proficiency in managing Kubernetes delivery and integrating services on the platform. Proven ability to structure operational topics related to engineering team delivery, including CI/CD processes, GitOps, quality assurance, and testing.

Skills (must-have):
- Proven project experience in software engineering in an agile setting, including CI/CD and release management
- Experience in structuring and reporting against timelines, managing dependencies and solving issues without external triggers
- Experience working in complex project settings with different types of stakeholders and a central role in managing issues and communicating relevant information
- Experience in serving as an interface between stakeholders with different objectives and goals
- Experience performing operations tasks (incident/problem/change management), reporting against operational targets (SLAs)
- Proven project experience in either delivery or operations working for critical infrastructure providers (TSOs, Energy Market) which require high availability and private cloud on premise infrastructure

Skills (should-have):
- Broad technical understanding of cloud services from AWS, GCP, or Azure, including:
o Kubernetes
o Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
o Observability / Monitoring
- Proficiency in both speech and writing in German or Ukrainian (at least C1)