Tech Lead Cloud Platforms

**About Us**
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food.

Its sales of € 3.8 billion in the 2021 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented by more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the United States and Latin America.

Symrise works with its clients to develop new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an integral part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process.

Symrise - always inspiring more

**Your Role**

We have an exciting opportunity for an IT Platform Owner for our Cloud platforms to join Symrise IT Data center & Cloud team In this role, you will help us implement our multi-cloud strategy to introduce the best solutions into the Symrise environment. You will work hand to hand with Symrise Business, IT Departments, and our external Partners to provide the best service experience.

Our data center & cloud services are the foundation for our central and regional business needs. With our focus on transparency, efficiency, and resilience our stakeholders are enabled for taking the best approaches needed
for their business. Expecting great communication skills and empathy you will help us line out a roadmap for the evolution of the data center & cloud services while simultaneously focusing on cost development and optimizations.

This position is accountable to own one or several Cloud platforms. You will be able to leverage our partners' ecosystems, to execute our strategy. We need to think globally, act fast, remove barriers, and communicate broadly.

As we are expanding our organization, you will be a key stakeholder to help us get the best talent all around the world. Teamwork must be written in your DNA. You must be able to adapt quickly to change and challenge the status quo.
- Technical Lead of the “Cloud Platform”
- Support the Platform owner and Team lead in technical recruitment
- Collaborating with their team to identify and fix technical problems
- Guiding their team through technical issues and challenges
- Conducting security audits to identify areas of improvement
- Preparing technical training and enablement
- You write well-structured, efficient, and maintainable code
- Actively keep the quality of the codebase in check
- Align across solutions to manage interdependencies, eliminate redundancies, and accelerate re-use
- Draft architectural decisions and ensure reliable and state-of-the-art Solutions
- Building the technical solution architecture based on IAAS (e.g. Infrastructure as Code)
- Participation in international projects including takeover project responsibility (partly/full)
- Driving excellence in product and platform automation for AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Work in close collaboration with various other teams
- Tracking market trends and state-of-the-art solutions and benchmarking (e.g. Infrastructure as Code)
- Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements

**About You**
- Degree as a computer scientist, Systems engineer or comparable education
- 4 years of experience with any Cloud hyperscaler & infrastructure
- Confident in using Terraform, Go, Python, Git, Kubernetes, generic Monitoring Solutions
- Broad knowledge in XaaS, network
- and security services
- Deep knowledge in cloud technologies
- High communicative competence, also in an international environment and a Can-Do attitude
- Sound experience in Cloud Solutions and Microsoft Collaboration Tools (e.g. MS-Teams, Sharepoint)
- Initiative and ability to deal with conflict
- Transformation Mindset
- Experience in IT transformations
- Knowledge of various operating systems and platforms
- Knowledge of information technology principles, concepts, and techniques
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and translate requirements between business, project management, and technical projects or programs
- Ability to operate successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization and own and drive the solution architecture definition
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Other foreign language skills would be an advantage (e.g. German / French / Spanish)

**Our Offer**
Become part of our open and transparent culture. It will give you the opportunity to flourish and to develop inspiring experiences that contribute to the health and well-being of consumers in 160 countries around the world. Putting our employees in the focus fuels our strong company growth above market rates and makes us an excellent place to develop your career.

**Come join us and embark on a fascinating journey with Symrise.**

Job Reference: EA00321