Trading IT - Operations Lead (f/m/d)

 Our Trading IT Team is looking for you!   

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

As the Operations Lead for Trading Integration, you oversee stability, reliability, and support operation for Middleware as a Platform. Sitting in the Middleware leadership team, your key responsibilities are:

Own and drive the end-to-end operations strategy for middleware

• Ensure seamless middleware functionality for trading and business-critical applications.
• Determine when operational improvements should be made and who is best place to drive them.
• Oversee incident, problem, and change management processes, ensuring smooth operations and minimal downtime.
• Define and implement service level targets, ensuring service reliability aligns with business expectations.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Act as the primary contact for operations-related discussions, ensuring alignment between IT leadership, business stakeholders, and support teams.
• Provide regular updates on middleware stability, incident trends, and operational enhancements.
• Champion a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Monitoring, Stability & Reliability and Operational Excellence

• Work closely with Site Reliability and Platform Engineers, delivery teams and support functions for shifting to predictive maintenance.
• Drive further implementation of observability, logging, and monitoring solutions for proactive issue detection.
• Foster continuous improvement and automation, self-healing capabilities and runbooks to optimize operational efficiency.

Your profile

• Proven experience as an Operations Lead, IT Service Manager, or SRE Manager in a middleware, integration, or trading IT environment of 5 years.
• Strong expertise in ITIL frameworks, incident management, problem resolution, operational governance and operational excellence.
• Experience implementing observability solutions, logging frameworks, and proactive monitoring strategies.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and middleware technologies (APIs, Streaming Kafka, MQ, event-driven architectures).
• Demonstrated ability to manage L2/L3 support teams, external vendors, and offshore development centers (ODCs).
• Ability to balance operational stability, cost efficiency, and service scalability in a high-demand trading environment.
• Very good inter-personal and verbal/written English communication skills.
• Collaborative attitude and good moderation skills.
• Enthusiastic to steer, train and upskill internal and external staff.

Your benefits

• Choosing how, where, and when to work in accordance with your team and the requirements of your job
• Modern and ergonomic equipment for your workplace (home & office)
• Support to balance private life and work: Sabbaticals, part-time possibilities, family service

• Car and bike leasing offer (deferred compensation) 
• E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations

Health offers:

• Flu vaccination
• Preventive health services
• Employee assistance program

Company pension:

• Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system
• Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching

Trainings:

• Lifelong training
• Coaching

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

 Your contact

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

career@uniper.energy 

Attention! Please apply via the button in this portal. Application documents that reach us by post will not be returned and, like those we receive by e-mail, can unfortunately not be considered!

 Job information 

As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.