Junior Project Manager for a Dev/Ops Team - Remote at Platform.sh () (allows remote)

Platform.sh is a groundbreaking hosting and development tool for web applications. We’re a European VC-Backed startup with a host of blue-chip Enterprise clients and a string of awards and grants (including €2m from the EU Horizon 2020 program).

To reinforce our technical prowess, we are looking to grow our operations team with a project manager that knows their way around Linux. If you’re looking for an exciting, high-growth opportunity with an award-winning, cutting-edge company, this could be just the job for you

For its groundbreaking PaaS solution, https://platform.sh is looking for a Project Manager with Good Linux system understanding, and a real hunger for the challenges of building robust, distributed systems. This role’s main focus is coordination and planning, this is not an engineer position.

Mission :

Directly reporting to our VP of Infrastructure, your roles will include:

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• Capacity planning: based on current workloads and future tasks plan with precision and rationality when we should upgrade what. When is the next window we can possibly launch a new cloud region?
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• Following-up on tasks: Ensure we have beautiful RCAs when there are incidents.
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• Backlog grooming: Make it pretty, actionable, sublime.
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• Sprint planning, estimation, critical path analysis.
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• Making projects delivery predictable and measurable; Find impediments and helping remove them.
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• Managing priority changes to backlog; Informing stakeholders when an injected task will cause some other story to be rejected from current sprint or be late.
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• Project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
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• Tooling around project plan and progress tracking
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• Reporting and escalation when necessary
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• Quality management: Managing the “Definition of Done” hand in hand with QA
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• Delivery management (release planning, QA follow-up) coordination with the Partner Delivery Manager
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While this is a long list of responsibilities, this is a junior position. We have many extremely knowledgeable co-workers who are happy to invest their time in sharing their experiences with those who show talent, interest, and a willingness to learn.

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