DevOps Engineer
CDI - Product Owner – Hosting & Cloud Platform Management (HCPM) - M/F
Rueil-Malmaison
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About The Job
For over 100 years, we’ve been by your side, all across France!
At Danone, we believe growth is something to be savored. That’s why our 26 brands are part of the everyday lives of French consumers, offering delicious products that bring enjoyment while taking care of oneself and loved ones. With more than 8,000 Danoners across 13 production sites, 7 warehouses, 3 headquarters and an R&D center, Danone continuously works on developing and enhancing iconic products found in your kitchens, supermarkets, restaurants, cafés, as well as in healthcare facilities and pharmacies. Certified B Corp and Happy Trainees, Danone does not aim to be the best company in the world, but a better company for the world. We strive to offer the very best to both our consumers and our people.
Within Global Technology & Infrastructure (GTI), the Infrastructure Product Group is looking for a Product Owner to lead Hosting & Cloud Platform Management (HCPM). In this role, you will own the enterprise Hosting & Cloud Platform product and ensure secure, compliant, standardized and scalable platform foundations across cloud and on-premises environments. You will act as a key point of accountability for platform governance, architecture guardrails, product evolution and financial stewardship, working with architecture, security, delivery and operations stakeholders across Danone.
The scope includes cloud platform and landing zone management, licensing governance, infrastructure core services, infrastructure tooling, backup and monitoring product management, FinOps and cross-charge governance, and coordination with build and run partners. The role is positioned at the intersection of product management, platform governance and infrastructure strategy.
YOUR MISSION
- Defines and drives the Hosting & Cloud Platform strategy, roadmap, KPIs, and architecture standards, ensuring alignment with business, security, and transformation priorities.
- Establishes and governs cloud, infrastructure, security, and compliance frameworks across the organization.
- Oversees multi-cloud platforms and landing zones (Azure, AWS, Aliyun), ensuring secure, scalable, and standardized application hosting.
- Governance & compliance defines landing zone standards, core services architecture (DNS, NTP, KMS, RDS) and IaC/DevOps patterns
- Leads the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps, automation, and self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Manages key platform capabilities, including backup & recovery, monitoring, patching, OS image management, and automation tooling.
- Oversees licensing (Windows Server, SQL Server, Red Hat, VMware, Nutanix), vendor governance, budgeting, and cost management across infrastructure and cloud environments.
- Drives FinOps practices, cloud consumption governance, and cost optimization initiatives.
- Leads and develops a global team of approximately 10 professionals (internal/external, multi-region), fostering collaboration, accountability, capability building, and continuous improvement.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
- A standardized, scalable and secure hosting and cloud platform framework enabling faster and more consistent solution delivery.
- Stronger automation, self-service and reusable building blocks to reduce lead time and operational complexity.
- Improved cost transparency, license compliance, cross-charge governance and FinOps performance.
- Robust core infrastructure standards and productized platform capabilities for landing zones, backup, monitoring, tooling and core services.
Our employer commitments
- The guarantee of a relevant, competitive and scalable compensation package, through external benchmark and internal equity. It consists among other things of a fixed salary, an yearly bonus, gain sharing.
- Flexibility of work and workplaces, such as weekly homeworking.
- Skills development for all, thanks to our Danone Academy France and through a year-round managerial conversation cycle.
- The possibility to use up to 3 days a year of volunteering through the platform Vendredi.
- Parenting policy benefits, such as extended Parental Leave (14 additional maternity/paternity days covered), or the ability to convert some earnings into time off
- Other benefits include a complementary pension scheme, health care plan, CSE, 100% of the Navigo pass covered
About you
The criteria below remain indicative. A candidate who has a different combination of experience and skills could also be considered.
- 7+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering or platform management
- Solid expertise on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Aliyun) and/or on prem hosting
- Strong understanding of platform governance, landing zones, infrastructure architecture, core services and operating model design.
- Hands-on knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, automation and reusable platform building blocks.
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure licensing governance, cost models, FinOps and vendor management in multi-vendor environments.
- Good level of understanding of backup, monitoring and automation tooling.
- Strong cybersecurity, compliance and audit awareness.
We are proud to promote diversity and equal opportunity within our teams. We believe that our differences will make a difference, and that an inclusive work environment will drive our growth as a company, as a team, and as individuals. We will therefore consider all applications* by fostering an inclusive work culture where everyone can feel at home.
We have also chosen to remove inclusive writing from our job offers because its complexity penalizes people with cognitive disabilities, including dyslexia, dysphasia, or apraxia.
- All nominations will be considered regardless of origin, background, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability…
About Us
One Planet, One Health - BY YOU !
Our four core values "HOPE" HUMANISM, OPENNESS, CLOSENESS and ENTHUSIASM serve as our compass.
Every day, you will make decisions that impact our economic and societal performance, as well as our ability to achieve our ambitions.
At Danone, you can just be yourself. We are convinced that it is up to YOU to define how you work, develop and progress.
With us, you will work in a challenging, authentic, and caring environment.
Want to know more about the daily life of our danoners? Check out our LinkedIn page and our @DanoneTalentFrance Instagram account.
You want to take action to bring health through food to as many people as possible? Join us!
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