Slobodan Stefanovic

Angestellt, Associate director DevOps operational services, Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

Erding, Deutschland

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IT executive with extensive experience in Operational. Engineering environments and especially in DevSecOps and SRE transformation, Cloud migration and improving agility , efficiency and service stability for complex and business critical systems. Passionate about technology and creating, growing and leading multidisciplinary and multicultural teams of highly skilled technical professionals. Results-driven and operationally focused. Specialties: Executive Leadership in IT, Change management, DevOps, SRE and operational transformation, High Availability, Operational Support, Mission Critical Environments, Architecture, Distributed Teams, Large Corporations, Multicultural Environments, ITIL Cloud technologies, Security and compliance

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Team Management
Department Management
Cross Cultural Management
IT Service Management
TCP/IP Networking
IT Operations
Automation
DevOps

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Slobodan Stefanovic

  • Bis heute 3 Jahre und 2 Monate, seit Aug. 2021

    Associate director DevOps operational services

    Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

    - Introduced DevOps, integrated development and operational teams and increased agility and cloud migration speed. Created services, products and organizational structures to execute and support DevOps transformation. - Introduced ServiceNow solution in ITSM, asset management and process automation, Prometheus/Thanos and Splunk in observability and AWX in automation area. - Managed post covid surge in activities while keeping strict budget and cost constraints.

  • 1 Jahr und 6 Monate, Feb. 2020 - Juli 2021

    Associate director Service reliability engineering

    Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

    - Reorganized SRE organization with 12 departments and 500 engineers covering 24*7 from 9 countries and managing critical services for more than 200 airlines. Agility, cost and stability were dramatically improved. - Introduced DevOps culture and organization. Implemented agile methodology and SAFE. Migrated services to private OpenStack and Azure, AWS and Google clouds. - Managed COVID -19 challenges, rapid transformation to remote working, organization downsizing and workload changes.

  • 1 Jahr und 2 Monate, Dez. 2018 - Jan. 2020

    Associate director Frontline services

    Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

    - Created organization and selected key high potential engineers and managers for Stability and incident response department. - Implemented customer first mind set and introducing new service levels adopted to specific customer needs. and transformed frontline operations to manage cloud technologies. - Represented Amadeus IT operations in Contract renewal negotiations, pre-sales and most critical support case meetings with key customers often on CIO level.

  • 1 Jahr und 5 Monate, Juli 2017 - Nov. 2018

    Department manager Frontline services

    Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

    - Took over operational cross divisional coordination function including regular company operational meetings daily Operational Status meeting and weekly Operational review meetings - Participating in corporate coaching program and introducing coaching for the team mangers in the department - Participated in introduction of Corporate crisis management process, calling and managing the first corporate crisis

  • 2 Jahre und 2 Monate, Mai 2015 - Juni 2017

    Department Manager - Incident management operations

    Amadeus Dataprocessing GMBH

    Department responsibility is Incident management including service and system monitoring, incident detection, diagnosis and recovery. Support model is Follow the sun on 24x7 basis. It consist of teams located in 3 locations – Erding near Munich, Sydney and Miami. Special priority is given to constant improvement cycle, increasing automation level and adoption of cloud computing and DevOps operational model and technologies

  • 11 Monate, Juni 2014 - Apr. 2015

    Department Manager- Test sytem and infrastructure operations

    Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

    Primary responsibility is internal and external network, test and batch systems stability for mission critical services. That includes incident recovery, monitoring, change control and execution and regular maintenance activities. Main achievements is integration of the test systems in operational structure resulting in improvement of service quality and stability of test systems and building follow the sun model for network /infrastructure operations.

  • 1 Jahr und 11 Monate, Juli 2012 - Mai 2014

    Section head of Inter system communication

    Amadeus Data Processing GmbH

    Team is responsible for implementation of communication links between Amadeus and partners and for polices and configuration of Enterprise databus. It masters range of technologies from standard HTTP/Soap and FTP to Airline legacy protocols like HostToHost, Batap. The team is in four locations: Erding near Munich, London, Miami and Sydney. Main achievement is transition from legacy protocols towards webservices and improving corporate databus stability.

Ausbildung von Slobodan Stefanovic

  • 6 Jahre und 3 Monate, Okt. 1989 - Dez. 1995

    Automation and electrical engineering

    Belgrade university - faculty of electrical engineering

Sprachen

  • Englisch

    Fließend

  • Deutsch

    Gut

  • Serbian

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