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Role Description We are looking for a Cloud Technology Manager who will manage Cloud Platform for our strategic Identity & Access Management GCP based application. The role is to set up, stabilize, manage the platform activities for this GCP application, it also includes further activities to enable the management of the platform: Vendor Engagement, Migration from On-Premises to Cloud, Production Incident Management, Audit Coordination, Compliant Requirement Enablement. The team Access Lifecycle Solutions within the area Identity & Access Management (IAM) is responsible for providing centralized Identity & Access Management solutions. These provide permissions and roles to application users and recertification of those in a standardized and compliant process. The assignment and revocation of roles can either be automated or manual. There is currently multi-year Cloud Migration Program, transferring these 5 legacy IAM applications from On-Premises to GCP hosted ForgeRock product, namely Accessio . This application was live since 2023, providing certain Request, Approval, Provisioning and Recertification and further IAM services. In upcoming years, more IAM services of various asset scopes will be added through the migration program. This role demands a strategic leader with strong technical skills in GCP, experience in cloud security, and expertise in managing enterprise IAM applications on GCP while ensuring seamless cloud operations. Your key responsibilities GCP Platform management , this includes Oversee GCP cloud environments, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and security. Manage GCP based applications, projects, networking, storage, and compute resources. Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and Git repositories. Oversee GCP cloud repositories, ensuring proper version control and release management. Manage Artifact Registry, Cloud Source Repositories, and Terraform automation. Conduct security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration testing. Set up the automation patching, upgrade process for GCP component to ensure compliant requirement. Define and implement disaster recovery (DR) and backup strategies for applications hosted on GCP. Manage Recertification services as subset of IAM, this includes Vendor management : Review Run-the-Bank contracts for both operations and engineering teams; suggest change to adapt with new business and compliant requirements; drive the negotiation with vendor and procurement team to final agreement; perform Vendor Risk Management and Vendor Assessment to ensure compliance around Vendor Management; review Vendor performance per agreed SLA/KPI and further agreements in the contract, and release invoice accordingly. Migration Lead of legacy onPrem recertification applications to Cloud; responsible for the technical part of the migration (non-functional requirement, interfaces, design); support migration team to unblock the technical issues by engaging with various stakeholders; ensure the migration plan, report transparent to team, management. Your skills and experience Skills: Completed degree in IT or a comparable qualification. GCP Cloud Engineer Professional certificate, GCP Security Engineer, or equivalent preferred. Excellent communication skills (English fluent, German is a plus) Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills Ability to work under pressure, reliability, flexibility, and leadership High degree of customer orientation Experiences: Experience in Cloud Technology, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Strong expertise in GCP infrastructure components (Compute, Storage, Networking, IAM, Security, and Kubernetes). Hands-on experience with GCP IAM, Cloud Security, and compliance frameworks. Expertise in SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and application release management within GCP. Experience with IAM solutions such as Forgerock, Sailpoint prefereable Experience in application vulnerability management and security best practices. Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation in GCP. Proficiency in Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE), Cloud Functions, and serverless architectures. Experience in Production Services &managing technology of larger, complex IT systems Experience in managing vendor teams, including experience working with the contract negotiation Knowledge of access lifecycle systems (with a focus on request & approval, provisioning, recertification, admissions/exits) is desired. DevOps Knowledge of Mainframe access, Active Directory access, and Cloud solutions is a plus Minimum of 8 years of experience
