IT DevOps Manager (m/f/d)

About the Job 

We are seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking IT Engineering Manager to lead our DevOps, Quality Assurance, and Incident Management functions. In this role, you will drive the delivery of secure, high‑quality, and resilient software solutions while shaping the engineering culture across the organization.

You will define and execute the strategy for modern engineering practices—including DevOps, continuous integration and deployment, automated testing, site reliability, and release governance—ensuring seamless collaboration across development, architecture, security, and operations. You will also own the end‑to‑end incident lifecycle, guaranteeing rapid response and continuous improvement.

What you do

Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team spanning DevOps, QA, and incident management, while defining the engineering vision, standards, and roadmaps for automation, reliability, and quality.

Partner with product, architecture, security, and operations leaders to align technology with business strategy, and define and evolve DevOps practices, tooling, and governance across the organization.

Drive the design and implementation of scalable CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and “security by design,” ensuring a consistent, enterprise-wide DevOps framework with metrics-driven improvement.

Establish and govern QA strategies, including test automation, performance testing, and quality gates, embedding testing practices into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous validation and release quality.

Own the full incident lifecycle, including detection, response, communications, root cause analysis, and preventive actions, while ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational playbooks.

Drive continuous improvements in system stability, recovery processes, and incident recurrence reduction, while overseeing release cycles to ensure compliance, traceability, and production-readiness.

Collaborate with development teams to improve release predictability, quality, and risk management, while championing a culture of quality and reliability across engineering teams.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Telecommunications, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in technical engineering roles, including 2+ years leading DevOps, QA. Experience in regulated environments (insurance, banking) is a strong plus.
• Strong background in software engineering, architecture.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps principles, CI/CD toolchains, automation frameworks, and agile delivery models.
• Proven experience with QA methodologies, automated testing, quality metrics, and performance optimization.
• Solid expertise in incident management, including response coordination and root‑cause analysis.
• Strong communication skills, leadership presence and ability to drive cross‑functional alignment; strategic thinker with a hands‑on mindset, passionate about continuous improvement and operational excellence.

 What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform and innovate the infrastructure, applications and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

 97971 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent