Overview:
SOFTSWISS continues to expand the team and is looking for a Project Manager. We need a true, experienced, and accomplished professional who shares our culture and values.
Key responsibilities:
- Implement and enhance agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban, mixed approaches) to improve SE/DevOps teams efficiency and project delivery
- Facilitate daily stand-ups, backlog planning and retrospectives, ensuring clear communication and alignment within the teams
- Manage stakeholder expectations, providing regular updates and facilitating effective communication
- Project documentation maintaining: milestones, budget, risk management and mitigation
- Implement OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to align team goals with organizational objectives
- Mentor and support team members, encouraging a collaborative and innovative work environment
- Drive the adoption of DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code and other optimisations
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through regular feedback, training, and development initiatives
- Maintaining the tools supporting the team’s processes (Jira, Confluence, EazyBI, Reports, Charts, etc)
Requrements:
- 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager in software development, preferably with DevOps teams
- Strong technical background (Systems Engineer/SRE role)
- Proficiency in Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps methodologies
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strategic and innovative thinking
- Excellent communication skills in English and Russian, good presentation skills
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure as code (Terraform/Pulumi, Ansible/Saltstack)
Nice to have:
- ITIL experience
- Experience with international teams and process setup
- Certification in project management (PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2)
- Experience with Kubernetes/Managed K8s services (e.g. EKS, OKE, etc)
Team’s technology stack:
- Saltstack
- ELK
- Postgresql
- Redis
- Kafka
- MongoDB
- Vault
- Kubernetes
- Terraform/Pulumi
- Gitlab
- Zabbix/ Prometheus + Grafana