Job Description
We are Uniper: an international energy company with about 11,000 employees.
We combine a balanced portfolio of technologically advanced large-scale assets with outstanding technical and commercial expertise.
These assets and capabilities enable us to deliver flexible, bespoke, competitively priced energy products and services with agility, precision and speed.
Our Application Support Trading within IT in Düsseldorf is looking for you!
The responsibility of Application Management covers the whole life cycle of a business application. It offers Uniper top-quality support for business applications with different levels of criticality (from low to very high), making sure they operate smoothly and are compliant, dependable and secure.
As Application Manager, you will join our team and use your excellent cloud technical and communication skills to build and maintain effective working relationships, both with internal and external stakeholders. Uniper has a vision of evolving the application manager position into a more DevOps Engineer role in the future. If you are willing to adapt to the role or see yourself as a DevOps engineer, that would be equally appropriate.
- Responsible for the integrated, consistent, reliable and cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet customer and business expectations and agreements
- Work with Uniper's IT internal and external suppliers in the lifecycle management process, to ensure the stability of related IT applications and infrastructure
- Liaise directly with the Uniper business to understand service requirements and ensure strong relationship management with stakeholders
- Aptitude to understand impact of changes from a technical and business point of view
- Develop and maintain automation platforms
- Coordinate solution delivery alongside agile sprints and over the full life cycle
- Collaborate with other areas on digitalization and automation
- Quality assurance of delivery, test preparation and execution including UAT support and operational enablement
- IT Consultant with technical and functional skills and with professional experience in similar role
- Advanced analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like Azure (IaaS/PaaS), in CI/CD tools like GitLab, Azure DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with container virtualization, especially with running containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with agile delivery processes (Scrum, Kanban etc.) is a plus
- Scripting skills via Python and/or BASH for use in automation of daily tasks would be a plus too
Personal attributes:
- Very strong conceptual and analytical skills
- Collaborative attitude and ability to communicate with diverse stakeholders
- Very good inter-personal and verbal/written German and English communication skills (Chairing meetings, facilitating workshops, preparing and sharing outcomes)
- Ability to work well in and with teams of different nationalities and cultures based in different locations
This role enables you to interact with various Energy Trading business functions, to use cloud based modern IT solutions of high quality and to advance technological excellence.
Become part of the energy revolution and work with our international diverse teams to shape the future of the Energy.
At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!
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