Delivery Program Management (m/w/d) PaaS Infrastructure - Remote & Berlin/Frankfurt

Für unseren Kunden in Berlin suchen wir im Rahmen eines langfristigen Greenfield Projektes erfahrene Unterstützung als Delivery Program Management (m/w/d) PaaS Infrastructure. Die Tätigkeit erfolgt Remote und in der Regel eine Woche für 3-4 Tage pro Monat vor Ort in Berlin oder Frankfurt . Je nach Projektphase wird eine Bereitschaft vor Ort von bis zu 50% vorausgesetzt. Hintergrund ist ein großes Plattformprojekt im Energiesektor.

Project:
The team is building an internal platform for software product developers to accelerate the development and delivery of software products to tackle the massive challenges facing the energy sector. The Platform is a service oriented, cloud-native platform that is being built to provide application teams with self-service capabilities to develop, run and operate their software products. Platform provides services for application infrastructure, data, service lifecycle management, application build and delivery as well as services to operate their software products. The Platform is deployed as a hybrid cloud, encompassing both private cloud and select public clouds.

General Description
The Delivery Program Line is responsible for the design, rollout, and continuous optimization of a software delivery function. To accelerate software delivery, the focus lies on optimizing engineering workflows, increasing automation levels, and introducing modern development tools—including AI-assisted capabilities. Development pipelines are structured to support rapid iteration, reliable test automation, and safe deployment, ensuring high-quality outputs with reduced lead times.

Objectives

Objective: Define the stages and gates of our development process. – Working with key stakeholders (e.g. development, operations, product lines) to understand how our software development process should look like.
– Conducting deep dives into critical delivery challenges and define actionable solutions.
– Aligning of the technical problem-solving with program priorities and timelines.
– Identifying systemic gaps and ensure consistent resolution patterns across teams.
– Ensuring feedback and insights from escalations are used to improve structural processes.

Objective: Ensure the successful design, rollout, and continuous improvement of a centralized development platform that supports scalable and efficient engineering across the program. – Providing definitions of a developer-focused vision for the Development for Platform initiative.
– Consulting on the integration of proven industry practices to ensure scalability, usability, and performance.
– Coordination of the enablement and onboarding of the stakeholder onto the platform.
– Consulting on establishing feedback loops to continuously enhance the platform based on hands-on usage.

Objective: Improve overall delivery speed by optimizing engineering workflows, increasing automation, and leveraging modern technologies. – Consulting on the introduction and scale development best practices across distributed engineering.
– Focusing on and enabling off the integration of AI-assisted development tools to increase productivity.
– Providing recommendations on strengthening of software quality by improving test automation strategies and coverage.
– Ensuring development pipelines support fast iteration and safe deployment.

Must-have experience
senior level as a delivery manager with experience in platform development with following extensive experience
– Experience in the management of the organizations of complex development projects.
– Experience with tests automation and frameworks/tools in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation.
– Experience in large scale cloud platforms, their environments and the operations of infrastructure.
– Experience in observability, performance monitoring, and improving customer experience.
– Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, DevOps practices, and IAM/RBAC principles and the associated observability solutions.
– Competence in using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence.
– Familiarity with the essentials of CI/CD pipeline management, including build, image registry, vulnerability scanning, and deployment processes.
– Experience in large cloud environments, their building blocks and the operation of infrastructures.
– Experience from the development of private cloud environments.
– Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, agile and Scrum methodologies.
– Deep knowledge from developing cloud in either private or public cloud environments.

Preferred experience
– Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerization, DevOps practices, and IAM/RBAC principles and related observability solutions.
– Experience with building infra using open source tech and associated tools like terraform, helm, etc..
– Familiarity in the application of analysis and problem-solving methods.
– Proficiency in using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence.