IT O&L System Lead | Pharma (100% remote from Spain or Portugal)

Description

We are looking for an IT O&L System Lead to ensure the operational excellence, stability, and compliance of a group of systems and applications within a global IT environment.

In this role, you will oversee day-to-day system operations, ensuring compliance with IT standards and coordinating activities across business and IT teams. You will combine IT Service Management practices with a solid technical understanding of infrastructure, cloud, databases, networking, and data platforms, while supporting system transitions, enhancements, and lifecycle management.

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES 🚀:

• Monitor SLAs, access and identity controls, audit trails, and other operational requirements.

• Ensure operational compliance and maintain the required system documentation.

• Coordinate backup, recovery, disaster recovery testing, and infrastructure patching activities.

• Manage incidents, problems, and changes throughout the system lifecycle.

• Implement small software enhancements and configuration changes.

• Coordinate software management and system-related activities across IT and business teams.

• Collect, assess, and process demands from business users.

• Work with Infrastructure teams on system remediation, migration, replacement, and decommissioning.

• Coordinate system archiving and retirement activities.

• Support the onboarding of systems from functional areas into the EOC.

• Oversee knowledge transfer, shadowing, and reverse-shadowing during system transitions.

• Communicate transition progress and results to the EOC reporting team.

• Contribute to continuous improvement and operational excellence across assigned systems.

SKILLS 🤹:

• 2+ years of experience as a System Lead or in a similar IT operations/support role.

• Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, including databases, servers, cloud platforms, and networking.

• Knowledge of IT Service Management and ITIL principles; ITIL v3/v4 Fundamentals certification.

• Working knowledge of AWS services such as Glue, PySpark, Lambda, S3, SNS, Step Functions, and Airflow.

• Knowledge of data transformation and modelling using Snowflake and dbt.

• Advanced Python and SQL skills.

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, particularly AWS CDK or CloudFormation.

• Understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeBuild.

• Familiarity with data integration tools such as SnapLogic.

• Experience with Incident, Problem, and Change Management.

• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Customer-oriented approach and ability to work effectively within international teams.

• Excellent English, both written and spoken.

Requirements

• Previous experience supporting systems in a regulated environment.

• Broader IT technical support experience covering hardware, software, networking, and databases.

• Experience coordinating system migrations, transitions, or decommissioning activities.

• Familiarity with multicultural and globally distributed organizations.

• Additional languages such as German, Japanese, Mandarin, or Spanish.

• ITIL certification beyond Fundamentals.

SCHEDULE 🕘:

• 08h-17h from Monday to Friday (flexible)

• 100% remoto

CONDITIONS 🌱:

• Requirements

• Ticket restaurant included in-office hours.

• Flexible compensation plan (free of income tax) where we provide you with medical insurance, public transport ticket and childcare check.

• Discounts in gym network.

• Training catalogue.

Our goal is that you are well in every way!