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Vice president (VP) Cloud

Remote (Deutschland), Remote (Austria), Remote (Romania), Remote Denmark, Remote Finland, Remote Poland, Remote Sweden
Full-time
Permanent employee

Your mission

Cloud Operations Excellence
  • Define, implement, and continuously improve Cloud Ops KPls for the whole Matrix42 product portfolio.
  • Ensure KPls are trending positively in alignment with business objectives (availability, performance, cost efficiency, cloud gross margin, customer satisfaction).
  • Drive operational automation, standardization, and adoption of best practices (SRE, DevSecOps).
  • Build and maintain platform-agnostic stack building blocks to enable flexible deployment models across hyperscalers, private clouds, and on-premises data centers.
Incident & Escalation Management
  • Establish a proactive Cloud incident management framework to reduce customer-impacting issues.
  • Own escalation metrics and ensure downward trend.
  • Partner with Customer Success and Support teams to accelerate resolution and assure timely root
  • cause analysis.
Financial Performance & Profitability
  • Own Cloud cost management and margin optimization for the Matrix42 Cloud.
  • Implement FinOps practices to optimize resource consumption, vendor contracts, and scaling models.
  • Drive Gross Margin improvement while ensuring high service quality.
  • Maintain a low operational cost base to enable competitive yet profitable pricing models across all deployment models.
Strategic Differentiation: Cloud Your Way
  • Deliver flexible deployment models that support:
    • Public Cloud (multi-tenant Saas based on Microsoft Azure).
    • Private Cloud with country-specific data residency.
    • On-premises/ customer data center deployments.
  • Provide turn-key deployment options that do not compromise data residency or sovereignty.
  • Position the company as a trusted European Choice by prioritizing sovereignty, compliance, and customer control.
  • Ensure offerings are resilient, compliant, and trusted, protecting customer data and fully supporting regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, EU Sovereign Cloud).
Leadership, DevOps & Observability
  • Proven track record of applying DevOps principles and rolling them out across CloudOps and Engineering units to drive speed, reliability, and quality.
  • Establish and scale a proactive Observability framework and tool stack covering all layers: network, infrastructure, application, and end-user experience.
  • Ensure observability practices span across multi-cloud deployments (Azure, private cloud, data center), driving early detection and prevention of incidents.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing CloudOps organization.
  • Champion a customer-first culture across Cloud delivery.
Key Metrics of Success
  1. CloudOps KPls for the Matrix42 Product Portfolio trends consistently downwards (incidents, MTTR)
  2. and measurable efficiency through automation increases.
  3. Escalations reduced.
  4.  M42 Enterprise Cloud Gross Margin improved.
  5. Cloud Your Way adoption: measurable growth in customers choosing sovereign deployment options.
  6. Compliance & trust: demonstrable adherence to European regulations, with high customer trust metrics.
  7. Proactive observability established across all layers in a multi-cloud environment.
  8. Operational cost levels enable pricing that is both attractive for customers and accretive to margins.

Your profile

  • 12+ years of experience in Cloud Operations and managing Saas Infrastructures in multi-cloud scenarios.
  • Proven track record in managing Saas cloud delivery at scale (preferably in Enterprise Service Management, ITSM, UEM etc).
  • Strong financial acumen in Cloud cost optimization & margin improvement.
  • Experience with CloudOps practices (SRE, FinOps, DevSecOps).
  • Demonstrated success in rolling out DevOps principles across multiple units including Engineering.
  • Proven experience in establishing observability frameworks across network,
  • infrastructure, and application layers in multi-cloud environments (Azure, private cloud, data center).
  • Deep understanding of platform-agnostic cloud stack design and deployment building blocks.
  • Strong knowledge of data residency, compliance, and regulatory frameworks in Europe.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills; ability to partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Customer Success.

Why us?

The VP Cloud will lead the company's Cloud strategy, operations, and financial performance across the M42 Core, Pro, and Enterprise platforms. This role is accountable for ensuring operational excellence in Cloud delivery, driving efficiency through measurable KPls, improving customer experience by reducing escalations, and strengthening profitability- with a specific mandate to increase Enterprise Cloud Gross Margin.
In addition, the VP Cloud will play a pivotal role in realizing the company's vision to become the leading European provider of service management software, delivering flexible
"Cloud Your Way" deployment models that meet customer demands for data residency and sovereignty. The strategy includes turn-key solutions that combine ease of adoption with full data residency control, and ensuring all offerings are resilient, compliant, and trusted - protecting customer data while supporting regulatory requirements.
The VP Cloud reports directly to the CTO and collaborates with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Customer Success and Support teams to ensure the company's Cloud offerings deliver scalability, resilience, cost efficiency, trust, and European independence.

Our Benefits

We could start by mentioning the fundamentals – 30 vacation days, flexible self-managed working hours, and a hybrid setup that supports remote work. But what truly sets this role apart is the opportunity to be part of a distinct European growth journey – shaping the European choice in Service Management that is a trusted and loved player in the market, while contributing to a company that is scaling with clear purpose, ambition, and customer focus.

Your contact person

Send us your application IN ENGLISH, including your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date, directly through our online portal via the "APPLY NOW" button. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Yuliia Borodatova. 

We would like to inform you that MATRIX42 can only accept applications online via the applicant portal in connection with our applicant management system because of the currently valid EU data protection regulations.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all genders and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, gender identity, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

About us

We are the European choice in intelligent service management – built on trust, powered by people!
 
At Matrix42, we empower organizations to digitalize and automate their everyday work. With our platform, customers manage IT and business processes, assets, endpoints, and identities seamlessly—driving productivity, agility, security, and a better employee experience. Through integrated solutions and automation, we enable modern digital workplaces and true self-service.
Join a diverse team of over 600 professionals across Europe who are shaping the future of service management every day.
Our culture is built on a strong, value-based performance mindset—because success is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. Guided by our four core values, we bring our vision to life every day:
  • We love customers – we put customer success at the heart of everything we do
  • Make it happen – we take ownership, act with speed, and turn ideas into impact
  • Better every day – we continuously learn, improve, and push boundaries
  • With respect – we collaborate with trust, openness, and appreciation for each other
Together, these values define our high-performance culture—one that is customer-centric, growth-minded, and built on collaboration. We support your personal and professional development through clear goals, continuous feedback, and opportunities to grow, helping you reach your full potential.
 
We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnic or social origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or identity.