Cloud Solutions Architect

About Volkswagen Digital Solutions

Founded in 2019, Volkswagen Digital Solutions (VWDS) plays a major role in the Volkswagen Group strategy of going digital, by developing software mainly for the digital ecosystems and internal corporate processes.

Split across 3 tech units: CODE (Core Operations + Development), MAN Digital Hub and SDC (Software Development Center), VWDS plays a key part of the digitalization strategy that is happening in the Group.

Our Mindset | Open for new ways, transparent in what we do and responsive to requests!

Our Target | Creating value, being customer focused and delivering continuously!

Unsure if you meet all our requirements? Please apply anyway! We would love to hear from you!

The Position

What you will be doing:

• Work closely with the development team (mainly DevOps engineers) and bridge the gap to the MAN Senior Management and stakeholders;
• Lead, together with peers, the Product Management and Service Management of both Platform and Business Service – AWS Platform and CICD Platform (Gitlab, SonarQube);
• Drive the standards and guidelines for these platforms;
• Evangelize and consult internally project and product teams;
• Take care about the big picture of how the Platforms are integrated with the overall MAN Truck & Bus landscape;
• Take care of the overall platform security and set guardrails to help cloud initiatives to align with MAN IT Security Standards and implement/manage a pro-active alert management;
• Ensure a smooth and continuous development experience for the dev team (prevent obstacles); you balance and funnel the distraction from the operational needs of the Platforms;
• Work closely with AWS Service Team (TAM, SA, AM) for MAN Truck & Bus to address and track common needs, feature requests;
• As a team player, you align and work together on new challenges with your peers and the dev team;
• Align with the Engineering Manager and Agile Enabler to increase the overall team maturity.

Requirements

• Product Management Skills such as backlog organization, requirements management;
• Experience with cloud services (especially AWS) and with cloud paradigms and serverless architecture (IaaS, PaaS, microservice architectures, continuous delivery);
• Knowledge in software development and preferable in following programming languages: Python, Bash, Javascript/Typescript;
• Strong communication skills around consulting and managing requirements;
• Understanding Service Management Processes (ITIL);
• Knowledge with Infrastructure-as-a-Code concepts like AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK;
• Experience in using CI/CD tools like GitLab CI and SonarQube is beneficial;
• High quality awareness, fun at solving challenging problems and ability for the understanding of complex relationships;
• You like working in interdisciplinary teams with agile methods;
• Fluent English.

Our Hiring Process

Our Recruitment Process may slightly differ according to each role.

1. CV Screening - Our HR team reviews all the applications. Within a few days will give you feedback.
2. Cultural Interview - If your CV matches our requirements, the HR team will invite you for an interview. This is the moment to get to know you better and give you the freedom to ask everything you’d like to know about the company and our projects. After this, you’ll be invited to make a technical test in our platform.
3. Technical Interview - After collecting the feedback from the cultural interview and the results from the test, you’ll be invited to access your technical knowledge together with one of our engineers. Also, you can find more about our projects and way of working.
4. Job offer - All ok from your side and ours :) It’s time for a job offer.

Benefits

This is a true opportunity to join an amazing atmosphere on our local company culture build up, with the support of a solid international group, and to be part of an Agile environment where you can learn, share, and interact in a place where your ideas are valued and you have a voice.

• Flexible working hours;
• Remote friendly model adapted to each team’s needs and preferences;
• Continuous learning with access to Udemy;
• Wellbeing program extendable to your household;
• Health insurance extendable to your household;
• Life insurance;
• Opportunity to join the company’s pension fund;
• Home Office Setup to build your dream home office;
• Home allowance, to receive in your payslip or use in our flexible benefits platform (e.g. gym partnership, internet/data expenses, tech equipment);
• Smartphone + Telecom with voice & data plan;
• Discounts on VW Group cars and special conditions on financing;
• Relocation package (if applicable) & Visa process sponsorship;
• Portuguese/English language classes.