As an IT Manager, you will lead the vision and architecture for the deployment, automation, and management of our cloud application portfolio. You partner closely with platform engineering teams, infrastructure architects, product owners, and key stakeholders to design and continuously enhance efficient CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices. You also lead and develop the DevOps team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

By setting clear objectives and aligning team efforts with organizational goals, you drive delivery excellence, improve operational efficiency, and ensure consistent, high‐quality outcomes across the application lifecycle. You will shape the team culture, elevate performance standards, and drive meaningful business outcomes. Lead a integral team of fifteen DevOps engineers distributed over different geographies towards the success of various initiatives.

Develop and implement the DevOps and DevSecOps strategies, aligning them with the company's goals and objectives. Establish and maintain best practices for infrastructure automation, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and release management. Implement a Community of Practices (CoP), evangelizing best practices in different DevOps topics such as deployment methods and branching strategies.

Drive automation initiatives to streamline operational tasks, including infrastructure provisioning, release notes, configuration management, and deployment processes. Implement and ensure DevOps metrics are met.

Ensure

DevOps guidelines are up-to-date. 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.

Participate in recruitment of IT support personnel. Security, Health, Safety, and Quality). Maintain discretion and confidentiality in all areas pertaining to data and proprietary information, whether internal to PPG or customer‐specific.

Understand and embrace the business and IT strategic direction. Project management as required. Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Minimum of four years of experience as a developer and/or DevOps engineer. Minimum of two years leading DevOps teams, including setting roadmaps, running agile processes, performance management, conflict resolution, and career development. Strong experience and proficiency with DevOps tooling—containers, scripting, source control, and workflows using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Azure DevOps.

Strong experience and proficiency creating, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD processes and tools in Azure Pipelines.

Experience driving change across organizations as it pertains to the culture of DevOps. Strong understanding of monitoring and logging management (e.g., Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana). Strong experience in software development methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.

Project management experience. PPG pays competitively and offers a range of benefits including health, dental, vision, retirement plans, paid time off, and additional perks. 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.

📌 IT Manager (DevOps) (m/f/x)
🏢 Ppg
📍 Barcelona