Frontend Infrastructure Operations Lead

Do you have a passion for ensuring smooth frontend infrastructure operations and a knack for collaborating with external partners? Are you a strategic thinker with a hands-on approach? If so, then this Frontend Infrastructure Operations Lead role is the perfect opportunity for you!

In this role, you'll be responsible for overseeing and ensuring the flawless operation of our entire frontend infrastructure in an outsourced environment. This includes critical technologies like Intune and SCCM. As a key member of our IT team, you'll act as the primary liaison between STARK GROUP IT and our external partners, ensuring alignment with business objectives and exceeding expectations.

Welcome to Group IT

When joining Group IT, you will be joining a digital transformation journey as we replace our legacy monoliths and transition towards a modular and flexible integrated setup. Group IT, a dynamic and rapidly evolving part of STARK Group, is responsible for delivering groupwide business-critical IT solutions. We strive to modernise and reimagine the IT landscape to ensure both scalability and composability to meet existing and future business needs, and we would like your help to rethink the way things are done in our industry to offer our customers a superior experience

Key Responsibilities:

As a Frontend Infrastructure Operations Lead, the role involves overseeing frontend infrastructure operations and collaborating with external partners for optimal results. Responsibilities include managing components like Intune and SCCM, ensuring the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of frontend systems and applications, and maintaining the stability, security, and scalability of services.

The position acts as the primary contact for external infrastructure and security vendors, managing these relationships and ensuring adherence to SLAs. It involves identifying and resolving infrastructure incidents and problems, planning and implementing changes and releases with minimal disruption, and monitoring infrastructure capacity and performance trends.

Additionally, the role requires enforcing security policies and compliance requirements, and developing disaster recovery plans in coordination with partners to ensure timely recovery in case of disruptions.

What You Bring:

The ideal candidate should have a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, along with proven experience in managing components like Intune and SCCM. They need a strong grasp of ITIL frameworks for incident, problem, change, and release management.

Experience with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) is a plus. The role demands strong troubleshooting skills for complex infrastructure issues and effective collaboration with external partners. Excellent communication and collaboration abilities are essential for fostering relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Additionally, the Lead must possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills to tackle infrastructure challenges efficiently, ensuring effective frontend infrastructure operations

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience working in an outsourced IT environment.

• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Workplace is in Aarhus, Denmark.

Want to know more and apply?

We will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the position and your options in STARK Group. You are welcome to contact IT Infrastructure and Security Operations Manager Lars Mikkelsen, lars.mikkelsen@stark.dk, +45 26 46 60 65 for any specific questions regarding the role.

STARK Group

STARK Group is a growing private equity-owned company with a strong legacy. STARK Group was first established in Denmark in 1896 and has today evolved into a leading European retailer and distributor of heavy building materials with net sales of approx. EUR 9 billion. With a dedicated team of more than 20,000 employees and +1,150 branches and distribution centres across the Nordics, Greenland, Germany, Austria and the UK, we live and breathe to serve professional craftsmen with heavy building materials all the way from the Austrian Alps to Tromsø, close to the Arctic circle and everywhere in between. STARK Group is committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050 across the entire business, is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, and works within fully 2030 validated science-based targets to keep global warming below 1.5°C

At STARK Group IT, we believe in the richness diversity brings. We invite individual of all backgrounds to join us in creating and enclusive and welcoming environment. We believe in a workplace where everyone can bring their authintic selves to work.

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