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Head of Cloud & Infrastructure

Job

  • Level
    Lead
  • Location
    Graz, Innsbruck, Vienna, St. Pölten, Amstetten
  • Working Model
    Onsite
  • Job Field
    IT, Project, DevOps
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Salary
    from 64.554 € gross/year

Job Summary

In this role, you lead a team of cloud and infrastructure specialists, develop strategies, oversee implementation of solutions, and coordinate cross-functional planning activities to deliver scalable projects.

Job Technologies

Your role in the team

  • At Cloudflight, you'll lead a team of talented cloud and infrastructure specialists, driving the technical strategy and building the organizational foundation that enables over 800 brilliant minds to deliver scalable, value-driven solutions to clients across industries.
  • Your daily tasks will include leading, developing, and inspiring a team of cloud and infrastructure specialists, fostering a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, and continuous growth while acting as a role model for your people leaders.
  • Defining and driving the cloud and infrastructure strategy and technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and contributing to innovation initiatives in close collaboration with the CTO organization.
  • Overseeing the design, implementation, and operation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure solutions, ensuring reliability, compliance, and performance across environments.
  • Managing capacities, skill mix, and utilization by identifying gaps, initiating hiring decisions in collaboration with Talent Acquisition, and ensuring specialists are staffed to project demands in a timely and skill-appropriate manner.
  • Contributing to budget planning, including headcount projections, compensation, and skill development investments, while monitoring delivery KPIs and driving corrective actions together with the VP Group Delivery.
  • Collaborating cross-functionally with Sales, Presales, Delivery, and People & Culture to align on planning activities, support presales engagements, and facilitate two-way communication between leadership and the team.

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Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • Proven track record in workforce planning, capacity management, and resource allocation across multiple teams or locations, with the ability to align staffing decisions with business priorities and client demands.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and develop leaders through regular feedback, performance management, and succession planning, while building resilient and scalable team organizations.
  • Fluency in both German and English, written and spoken.

Experience

  • Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in software engineering, consulting, or a related field, including at least 5 years in a people leadership role with demonstrated experience in leading managers and building high-performing organizations.
  • Deep technical expertise in cloud and infrastructure, including hands-on experience with platforms like Azure, AWS or GCP, as well as open source and cloud native technologies like OpenShift, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Linux & Containers (e.g. Ubuntu, CentOs, Docker), Gitlab, Teamcity, SonarQube, Artifactory, Kafka, ActiveMQ.
  • Strong understanding of utilization, billability, compensation structures, and cost management, combined with experience contributing to budget planning and using workforce KPIs to drive data-informed decisions.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills, with experience collaborating across cross-functional stakeholders such as Sales, Delivery, Finance, Talent Acquisition, and executive leadership, and the ability to represent the stream in strategic discussions.

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What we offer

  • Austria: The law stipulates that the minimum wage must be specified in job postings.
  • The minimum salary is €64,554 gross/year in the collective agreement.
  • Adequate to your skills, we are willing to pay much more.

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Benefits

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Job Locations

  • Location Vienna

    Walcherstraße 1A

    1020 Wien

    Austria

  • Location Graz

    Steiermark

    Austria

  • Location Innsbruck

    Tirol

    Austria

  • Location Amstetten

    Niederösterreich

    Austria

  • Location St. Pölten

    Niederösterreich

    Austria

About Your Employer

Cloudflight GmbH

Cloudflight GmbH

Wien, Linz, Hagenberg Im Mühlkreis

Our team of creative experts works hand-in-hand with our clients to develop tailor-made solutions, products, and platforms. We have over 400 digital strategists, experienced software architects, leading data scientists, and cloud engineers worldwide who collaborate closely to achieve the best results.

Description

  • Company Size
    250+ Employees
  • Founding Year
    2005
  • Company Type
    Startup
  • Working Model
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Consulting, Internet, IT, Telecommunication

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Logo Cloudflight GmbH

Head of Cloud & Infrastructure

Salary
from 64.554 € gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad.from 43.528 € net/year
Location
Graz, Innsbruck, Vienna, St. Pölten, Amstetten
Working Model
Onsite
Diversity
Open for all genders

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