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Discover how PPG’s global team of innovators drives sustainable solutions, enhances productivity, and celebrates 140 years of color leadership. Join us!
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, deployments. Supports the DevOps team with scripting and automating all environments, software deployments, and it’s supporting infrastructure.
This is a fully remote role with flexibility to be located in Poland, the Czech Republic, or Spain.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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Lead a global team of fifteen DevOps engineers distributed over different geographies towards the success of different initiatives.
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Develop and implement the DevOps and DevSecOps strategies, aligning it with the company’s goals and objectives.
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Establish and maintain best practices for infrastructure automation, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and release management.
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Implement a Community of Practices (CoP), evangelizing the best practices in different DevOps topics, such as deployment methods, branching strategies, etc.
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Drive automation initiatives to streamline operational tasks, including infrastructure provisioning, release notes, configuration management, and deployment processes.
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Implement and ensure DevOps metrics are met.
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Implement strategy to reduce technical backlog.
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Ensure DevOps guidelines are up-to-date.
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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.
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Participate in recruitment of IT support personnel.
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Compliance with regulatory requirements, Security policies, and SOX related activities
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Schedule personnel job duties to provide the necessary coverage.
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Organize verbal and written ideas clearly and use an appropriate business style.
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Provide regular updates to appropriate managers.
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Assure that procedures and work instructions are efficient and not redundant.
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Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet, and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority.
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Confer with reporting manager on complex or unusual situations.
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Ensure 100% adherence to all company policies and procedures (i.e., Security, Health, Safety, and Quality).
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Maintain discretion and confidentiality in all areas pertaining to data and proprietary information, whether internal to PPG or customer-specific.
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Ability to work effectively under pressure with changing priorities and deadlines.
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Understand and embrace the business and IT strategic direction.
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Understand business processes and business tools in the current environment.
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Project management as required.
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Organize 24 / 7 support with the team.
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May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
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Minimum of 2+ years of experience as a Developer and/or DevOps engineer.
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Strong experience and proficiency with DevOps tooling – containers, scripting, source control, and workflows using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Azure DevOps.
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Strong experience and proficiency creating, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD processes and tools in Azure Pipelines.
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Experience driving change across organizations as it pertains to the culture of DevOps.
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Strong understanding of monitoring and logging management (e.g., App Insights, Prometheus, Grafana).
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Strong experience in software development methodologies including Agile, Waterfall
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Demonstrated leadership experience.
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Project management experience.
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Interpersonal skills in working with the management and technical teams in a “self-starter” role.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Strong attention to the detail.
ADVANTAGE
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Agile project experience.
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ITIL experience.
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Experience with working in a well-established DevOps environment
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DevOps certifications (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert)
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Facilitating road-mapping workshops
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Familiarity with custom software development toolset
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About us:
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 and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @PPG on X.
The PPG Way 2030
We are customer champions
Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen, move fast and don’t stop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win, we all grow.
We act with purpose and speed
Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility, using quality data to develop solutions that create value.
We are excellent operators
Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role, we identify problems, take ownership and always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support our frontline, the faces of PPG to our customers.
We compete to win
Future-focused. Driven. Ambitious. We are passionate about growing our business and winning with our customers. We deliver results, embrace new technologies and leverage agility and speed as strengths.
We are PPG proud
Strong. United. Passionate. We work safely, act with integrity and value our diverse perspectives. We celebrate achievements and take pride in the positive impact we create together to protect and beautify the world.
At PPG we use AI in the hiring process to make the process more efficient. AI tools do not make hiring decisions. You can learn more by going to https://careers.ppg.com/us/en/candidate-resources.
PPG provides equal opportunity to all candidates and employees. We offer an opportunity to grow and develop your career in an environment that provides a fulfilling workplace for employees, creates an environment for continuous learning, and embraces the ideas and diversity of others. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
If you need an adjustment due to a disability, please email [email protected].
PPG pay ranges and benefits can vary by location which allows us to compensate employees competitively in different geographic markets. PPG considers several factors in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, qualifications and education, licensure and certifications, and other organizational needs. Other incentives may apply.
Our employee benefits programs are designed to support the health and well-being of our employees. Any insurance coverages and benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process.
PPG values your feedback on our recruiting process. We encourage you to visit Glassdoor.com and provide feedback on the process, so that we can do better today than yesterday.
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