St IT Generalist (Multi-year contract opportunity) LOCAL CANDIDATES PREFERRED

Worldwide, the Volkswagen Group has a long tradition of dramatic innovations. The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. The Group comprises twelve brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, SEAT, KODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania, and MAN. Here in the US, we are blending German engineering with American ingenuity.

As AoA ADAS Hub, we develop and realize Advanced Driver Assistant and Autonomous Driving solutions. Our mission is to make mobility safe, accessible, and most attractive for our customers. Doing this your location has a big focus on the US market and reflects the customers' needs of the North American region.

For that, we support the entire operation from strategy, perception, fusion, planning, execution, and end-2-end integration. We are an integral part of Volkswagen Group's, fleet operations for the next generation assisted and self-driving systems.

Our mission is to drive innovations which means we are not only impacting one of the world's largest car makers, but also the lives of millions of our customers.

Role Responsibilities

The role is intended to support the local IT operations activities within the office on daily tasks around:

* Asset management

* Issues troubleshooting

* Support on managing IT infrastructure

* Managing the data upload processes for the engineers

Qualifications

Education:

Required: BSc in IT or engineering-related fields, or respective proven experience

Desired: MSc in IT or engineering-related fields, or respective proven experience

General Skills

* Eager to learn new technology topics

* Ability to independently solve challenges

* Excellent communication skills

* Proficient in using Microsoft Office tools and Atlassian Confluence

* Experienced in handling multiple projects, timelines, resources, and risks

* Comfortable presenting technical information to technical and non-technical audiences

Technical skills

Required:

* Technical proficiency in operating systems, networking, hardware, data management, and software

* Experience in understanding issues and communicating these to the right stakeholders

* Experience in following and implementing corporate IT security principles and guidelines

* Familiarity with networking topics and respective hardware

* Familiarity with enterprise hardware components

Desired

* Ability to plan data upload activities

* Ability to document technical issues and solutions

* Support engineers and DevOps with deploying, debugging, and maintaining container

Role responsibilities

**(efforts distribution is only exemplary and may change according to the workload in each area)

* Troubleshooting issues and continuous improvement of processes (40%)

* Lead efforts to troubleshoot issues and continuously improve processes

* Support the team with daily IT challenges, acting as a liaison between the ADAS Hub and the corporate IT teams

* Actively search for issues and opportunities within our processes and technical work environment

* Independently find solutions in collaboration with key stakeholders

IT-Asset management (30%)

* Manage IT assets and related documentation, working with teams at corporate IT and developing monthly reports and forecasts

* Manage the technical setup of workplaces

* Present results to local management

Data management (30%)

* Create and maintain a data upload plan

* Support engineers with data uploads, also monitoring the success of the uploads to the cloud

The person selected for this role will need to be onsite 4 days/week at our office in San Jose, CA. This is a multi-year contract opportunity with potential to convert to full-time in the future.

In San Jose, California, the salary range for this role is $120,000 -$150000, depending on education and experience.

Volkswagen Group of America is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, color, gender identity/expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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