DevOps Team Manager (VCK)

Let's introduce ourselves

At Volvo Car Košice (VCK), our teams play a pivotal role in shaping the digital opera-tions from the ground up. Our mission is to provide the best manufacturing of products that accelerate the world to sustainable energy. 
With a vision to produce 250,000 cars per year, VCK offers a unique opportunity to be part of something new and impactful, where your work directly contributes to setting new global standards in automotive manufacturing and has real influence on launch as well as steady state operations of digital solutions.

Place of work: Valaliky Industrial Park, Košice District
Reports to: Head of Digital
Cooperation sectors: central product organizations, infrastructure, manufacturing engineering, suppliers, plant operations.

What you'll do

You will utilize strong engineering mindset and previous experience to take ownership for digital launch success and long-term application stability at the site level. The role combines senior program and people leadership, and application ownership to ensure that digital solutions are ready for production start, scale with factory ramp up, and operate reliably in a steady state.

In doing so, you will:

• Act as local launch lead for Digital / IT applications and as the single point of contact for application-related topics at the site level;
• Own local digital readiness and execution, including scope, milestones, dependencies, and risks;
• Lead cross-functional coordination across: Local application and DevOps team, Infrastructure and Factory Support, Manufacturing Engineering, External partners and suppliers;
• Drive prioritization and escalation during critical launch phases;
• Ensure readiness for cutover, go live, hypercare, and stabilization;
• Ensure: High availability and performance, Operational stability and predictability, Compliance with security, data protection, and internal controls;
• Ensure monitoring, alerting, backup, and recovery practices are effective;
• Steer application lifecycle, upgrades, and technical debt together with central product teams;
• Drive continuous improvement of stability, quality, and ways of working;
• Provide clear, fact-based status reporting to site management and central Digital leadership;
• Lead and develop the local applications / DevOps team, organize their daily workflow, ensure accountability and continuous improvement, recognize achievements, and handle people issues;
• Oversee all aspects of people planning and management, including short and long-term resource planning, holiday scheduling, sickness management, and individual performance management;
• Communicate job expectations clearly, provide necessary instructions and feedback to team members;
• Be a role model for Volvo Cars values, encourage a speak-up culture, so your team can freely highlight problems, deviations, opportunities to improve through potential solutions.

What you'll bring

• Several years of previous program and people management experience in application management, DevOps, or IT operations, preferably in a manufacturing / factory environment;
• Exceptional understanding and practical knowledge of all the aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using agile development practices, incl. development, testing, rollout, deployment (continuous integration and deployment pipelines), and further support;
• Strong stakeholder management and supplier coordination skills and experience;
• Good understanding of the car manufacturing processes and real-time production management;
• Preferred university education in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field;
• Ability to professionally communicate, verbally and in written form, in both English and Slovak language;
• Flexibility, being able not only to work under an organization in a transformation period, or green-field project, but thrive in such a fast-paced environment;
• Demonstrated ability to work within a multinational team, influence, and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Problem-solving and a continuous improvement mindset;
• Process observation and confirmation, Performance Management (maximizing engagement, motivation, and productivity), Influencing skills (communications & rhetoric);
• People development abilities and coaching skills.

Core Competencies:

• Collaborates: Builds strong partnerships to meet shared goals;
  
• Drives Results: Achieves consistent results, even in tough situations;
  
• Builds Trust: Gains confidence through honesty and integrity;
  
• Drives Engagement: Motivates people to achieve organizational objectives;
  
• Ensures Ownership: Holds self and others accountable;
  
• Builds Effective Teams: Fosters solid, diverse teams;
  
• Optimizes Work Processes: Focuses on continuous improvement.

Compensation Data

Monthly gross salary for this position starts from 3.200 EUR.
* The salary amount represents the minimum guaranteed amount of the basic salary component applicable to the job. Final salary is negotiable and will be adjusted in accordance with seniority level and previous experience of candidate.
Additional benefits:

• Summer & Winter Pay;
• Annual Volvo Cars Performance Bonus;
• Company car with a monthly fuel benefit;
• Contribution for Supplementary Pension Savings (lll. Pillar);
• Cafeteria Benefit Program;
• Contribution for meals exceeding legal requirements;
• Compensation for dioptric glasses & contact lenses beyond the legal requirements;
• Life insurance for cases of loss of life, disability, work injury;
• Flexible working hours.