Local Hosting Service Owner (m/f/d) (80-100%)

Accelerating Sustainability Through Technology

Join a global technology leader dedicated to accelerating sustainability in the marine and energy industries. With a heritage of over 100 years, we serve customers in more than 100 locations across over 50 countries. Our 3,000 employees continuously innovate to deliver best-in-class products, services, and solutions that are mission-critical for the energy transition. We foster diversity and inclusion, welcoming and celebrating individual differences as a source of strength. Together, we support our customers in driving the transition toward sustainable industries with cutting-edge technology, deep expertise, and smart solutions.

Your Role

You will take end-to-end ownership of on-premises hosting environments, including servers, virtualization, storage, dedicated High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments, and local data center infrastructure across Swiss locations. Acting as the key interface between factory IT, global Infrastructure and Cybersecurity teams, service providers, and external partners, you will ensure local requirements, enterprise standards, security policies, and strategic technology initiatives are effectively aligned and implemented. This role combines operational service ownership with active contribution to infrastructure projects and modernization initiatives, supporting factory growth, engineering and simulation environments, business continuity, lifecycle management, and long-term infrastructure strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Service Ownership & Operations: Own and continuously improve local hosting services, ensuring stable, secure, resilient, and SLA-driven operations for business-critical factory and engineering environments. Act as the technical authority for local hosting platforms, managing incidents, problem resolution, root-cause analyses, escalations, and operational risks while ensuring compliance with security, cybersecurity, regulatory, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
• Lifecycle, Documentation & Governance: Define and maintain lifecycle, capacity, refresh, and modernization roadmaps for hosting services. Maintain infrastructure, asset, and operational documentation, and drive continuous improvement through process optimization, standardization, automation, and governance. Coordinate budgeting, purchasing, vendor governance, and service reviews with internal and external stakeholders.
• Vendor, Contract & Cost Management: Manage service providers, contracts, budgets, forecasts, and operational costs. Monitor and improve service delivery through SLA/KPI governance, escalation management, and performance reviews, ensuring effective collaboration between local service providers and global IT teams.
• Project & Initiative Contribution: Support and lead hosting-related projects from solution design through implementation and operational handover. Lead and/or contribute to factory, infrastructure, modernization, and site expansion initiatives. Coordinate with infrastructure, network, application, cybersecurity, and external partner teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions, driving automation, standardization, resiliency, and operational excellence across the hosting landscape.

Required Background & Skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a comparable technical field.
• Strong expertise in on-premises hosting, virtualization, storage, and data center technologies.
• Experience as a Service Owner or in managing infrastructure services with responsibility for SLAs, KPIs, service governance, and continuous improvement.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, compliance, risk management, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Experience in IT service operations, incident management, and vendor management; ITSM knowledge is an advantage.
• Experience in budget planning, cost management, and enterprise procurement processes; SAP knowledge is beneficial.
• Experience with infrastructure standardization, automation, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, engineering, or other business-critical operational environments is a strong advantage.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in a global IT environment with international teams and service providers.
• Fluent German and good English (minimum B2).
• High ownership, reliability, and willingness to support sites across Switzerland.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Performance-related bonus opportunities for eligible employees.
• Supportive culture focused on trust, accountability, and flexibility.
• Global Parental Leave Program.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Health and well-being initiatives.
• Company canteen.
• Opportunities to work with global teams and industry-leading technologies in a modern workplace.