RackspaceRA

IT Change & Licensing Manager

At Rackspace, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation.

Rackspace

Employee count: 5000+

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Manages the planning, and coordination, communications about, IT Changes of business or internal systems, or infrastructure. Provides leadership to various technical teams, guiding them in their efforts during the Change Management phases of the Service Management Lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Receiving, verifying, recording, tracking and coordination of standard change requests (internal/external) and
  • non-standard change requests (internal/external) supporting Data Center environment
  • Communication with the requestor and all relevant stakeholders
  • Coordination of CAB meetings and approval of change requests
  • Coordinate and agree risk-/ downtimes with customers (internal/ external) and inform all stakeholders
  • Support of Delivery Management during the whole time of Delivery
  • Continuous optimisation of workflows to implement change requests more efficiently
  • Training of users and support for the Change Management tools and processes.
  • Maintain training / support documentation of change management process/workflow.
  • Carry out change reporting/billing activities for internal/external customers.
  • Management of the software licences and hardware maintenance contracts to ensure the service level of internal / external IT services
  • - Timely processing license requests (internal / external)
  • - Create license usage reports
  • - Ensuring compliance with the licensing area
  • (Oracle, Microsoft ,VMWare, Citrix, Oracle Enterprise/Red Hat Linux)
  • - Coordinate the license requirements with the business areas
  • Monitoring and updating the software pool (lifecycle management)
  • Supporting purchasing and legal in the negotiation of framework contracts
  • - Obtaining all licenses and maintenance quotation
  • - Creation and tracking of procurement orders
  • - Continuous budget control and timely detection of imminent overshoots
  • - Continuous focus on the realization of savings potentials by consistently
  • - tracking usage optimization approaches

Required Experience:

  • Working in an IT or Data Center Environment
  • University degree (computer science, business administration, engineering) or comparable experience
  • Experience in a Change Management role
  • Advantage: Understanding of Information- and Telecommunication business and technologies
  • Advantage: ITIL and/or ISO20000 knowledge
  • German Language an advantage

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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About the job

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May 26, 2024

Posted on

Mar 27, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Manager

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Hungary +/- 0 hours

About Rackspace

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At Rackspace, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation. By managing apps, data, security, and multiple clouds, we are the best choice to help customers get to the cloud, innovate with new technologies, and maximize their IT investments. As a recognized Gartner Magic Quadrant leader, we are uniquely positioned to close the gap between the complex reality of today and the promise of tomorrow. Passionate about customer success, we provide unbiased expertise, based on proven results, across all the leading technologies. And across every interaction worldwide, we deliver Fanatical Experience TM — the best customer service experience in the industry. Rackspace has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor, and others as one of the best places to work.

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