Head of Competence Center, Cloud Engineering

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🕒 September 8

🇨🇭 Switzerland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Axians Somnitec AG

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Axians Somnitec AG is a Swiss ICT services company and member of the global Axians (VINCI Energies) network that provides end-to-end digital transformation and managed IT solutions. The firm offers AI business consulting, cloud & data center services, enterprise networks, broadband and mobile infrastructure, managed security (SOC) and professional IT services such as project management and managed services. With a local presence across roughly 30 Swiss locations and partnerships with vendors like VMware and AWS, it serves banks, healthcare, public sector bodies, carriers and other enterprise clients.

📋 Description

• Disciplinary and professional leadership of the seven-member Cloud Engineering team • Coaching, performance reviews, employee development, and personnel reporting • Responsibility for recruitment and strategic workforce, capacity, and resource planning • Fostering a high-performing engineering culture with a strong focus on service and customer orientation • Further developing the service and performance portfolio together with the Business Line • Ensuring sustainable knowledge and competency management within the team • Defining, establishing, and enforcing professional and methodological standards as well as best practices • Promoting innovation and identifying new technologies and market trends • Ensuring compliance with normative, regulatory, and strategic requirements • Contributing to budget planning, investment decisions, and the strategic development of the area of responsibility • Promoting cross-functional collaboration and organization-wide knowledge transfer • Managing escalations involving complex technical or organizational challenges • Continuously developing processes, policies, and governance models • Actively shaping technical solutions and serving as a sparring partner on demanding projects

🎯 Requirements

• Several years of leadership and practical experience in an engineering or infrastructure environment • Industry experience in IT, ideally in a managed services environment • Completed higher professional education (HF/FH) in computer science or an equivalent qualification • In-depth understanding of modern cloud, platform, and infrastructure services • Experience leading and developing technical teams and specialist functions • Experience in knowledge, competency, and talent management is an advantage • Proven experience leading technical specialists • Strong affinity for standardization, quality management, and automation • Analytical, structured, and solution-oriented approach to work • Very good command of German and English, both written and spoken • Connected, strategic, and entrepreneurial mindset • Willingness to take visible responsibility and build trust through reliability • Ability to develop employees and promote personal accountability • Ability to address conflicts openly, make clear decisions, and implement them consistently • Excellent communication skills at all levels

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours based on a 40-hour workweek, with part-time options • Location-independent working, with the option to work from home or remotely within Switzerland • 25 days of annual vacation (27 days from age 40 and 30 days from age 50) • 13 paid public holidays and the option to take additional unpaid leave • 100% salary continuation during three weeks of paternity leave or 16 weeks of maternity leave • State-of-the-art hardware and a paid mobile phone plan, including a contribution toward a smartphone • Above-average pension fund benefits, with employer contributions of 60% and employee contributions of 40% • Private supplementary accident insurance • Free charging for electric vehicles at the Gerlafingen and Aarau locations • Discounted access to fitness and physiotherapy center services • Brands for employees and benefits at work • Wellbeing@Work, including Mario Kart racing, a silent room, table football, aperitifs, and team events