Freelance Technical Program Manager – Cloud Platform & Operations (Senior, Remote-first)
Right People Group
Ansprechpartner: Mirijam Redinger
remote, Deutschland
ITSoftware-PlattformCloud-EngineeringCertified Scrum Product OwnerScrumVrealize Operations Manager (VROPS)Remote-ManagementRemote Application PlatformCloud PlatformGitLabKubernetesTerraformCloud-Management-Plattformen
Beschreibung
Freelance Technical Program Manager – Cloud Platform & Operations (Senior, Remote-first)
Overview
- Engagement: Long-term, full-time freelance
- Start: ASAP or reasonably soon
- Location: Remote, on a European timezone, with on-site meetings in Germany once a quarter
- Language: English is required. German is a strong plus.
Role description
You'll own how work in a cloud platform and SRE domain gets structured, sequenced and finished. That covers several teams and external delivery partners. You'll report to the Domain Product Owner and work closely with Platform Engineers, SREs, Architecture and Security. This is not a Scrum Master or Agile Coach role. You'll steer inside the teams.
- Own the roadmap, sequencing and delivery cadence across several parallel streams, including a migration to managed Kubernetes, a GitLab-to-GitHub migration and a change of incident management tooling
- Prioritise using Cost of Delay, and keep dependencies and risks visible on a shared board
- Run 6–8-week cross-team planning cycles, short weekly syncs and inspect-and-adapt loops
- Set up a light operating framework: OKRs, WIP limits, one toolchain, clear communication rules
- Make sure security and compliance steps are built into the plan from the start (release approvals, threat modelling, pen tests, CRA/NIS2)
- Run partner transitions and tenders as structured programmes
- Push for automation-first design and challenge manual gates
- Report to senior leadership on your own
Tech stack
- Kubernetes (self-operated, moving to managed)
- GitLab and GitHub.com
- Grafana Cloud (Incident Response Management)
- Internal developer platform, CI/CD, automated patching pipelines
- CDN and transactional email services
Requirements
- A hands-on software engineering background
- Senior experience in technical program management, delivery leadership or product ownership
- Proven examples of changing how a team works, against resistance
- Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments
- Able to keep teams to their commitments while staying respected by engineers and executives
Nice to have
- WSJF/CD3, OKRs, roadmap visualisation
- Team Topologies, flow metrics
- ITIL, FinOps
- Experience with RFPs, sourcing strategy and partner transitions
Apply: Send your CV, daily rate, availability and one example of a team change you drove to us!