Systems Engineer

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU

The Datacenter & Platforms unit is currently recruiting a system engineer to be a part of a team that manage, develop and operate infrastructure services in our central environments.

The system engineer provides professional operations and engineering practices, delivers scalable infrastructure for efficient consumption in a hybrid environment, combining systems knowledge, monitoring expertise, and operations competence with programming/scripting skills to automate and simplify our current IT landscape and the future growth of digital IKEA.

REQUIREMENTS

Too be successful you have proven advanced training in information technology, computer science or equivalent experience. You have also experience of working with internal or external clients/customers. You have experience in designing and implementing resilient, highly available and automated infrastructure platforms.

We believe that you have knowledge in the following areas:

• Proven knowledge and experience from Ansible/Ansible Tower
• RedHat Satellite/Insight
• Python, Bash and PowerShell scripting experience
• Experience working with a remote and globally distributed team.
• Good knowledge of working in product-oriented development teams together with agile practices.

The passion about technology and new technology innovations keeps you learning and curious. The motivation of how technology can be used to automate and improve activities will energize you to work both independently and interdependently across functions.

To deliver to our vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people, we are transforming our business and as such we are changing the way we are delivering infrastructure to our consumers.

We believe that you have experience in working in an ever-changing large-scale IT landscape with delivery models such as IaaS and PaaS. We also believe that you have experience working with agile frameworks and methodologies.

As part of our change journey, we see that technologies such as hybrid cloud automation and terraforming will be more and more important to us so experience within these areas is considered a merit. We also see that knowledge of other Linux operating systems than RedHat is also good to have as well as of non-Linux operating systems.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be the technical resource in your area of responsibility and support current and future business within Digital IKEA.
• Deliver infrastructure through automation and with self-service capabilities for efficiency, availability and usability.
• Do continuous improvements and innovation within this area.
• Develop and secure our test and production environments.
• Participate in the implementation of new technologies and infrastructure projects.
• Develop and maintain the right toolsets required for running services.
• Apply and adhere to the digital engineering best practices with an agile development approach.

TOGETHER AS A TEAM

We are a small team of around 8 people. We are autonomous, self-organizing and self-sufficient in many ways, which means part of our daily work is to define how we get things done together as a team.

We are passionate about securing value for our business and stakeholders. We enable the success of our consumers by delivering well designed, state of the art product deliveries within our area.

We value team players that appreciates a feedback culture, and that has an agile and pragmatic mindset. We encourage coworkers to embrace simplicity as a leading concept in their daily work and we appreciate people with a holistic view that give and takes responsibility.

The role is based in Helsingborg Sweden and you will report to Engineering Manager

PLEASE NOTE

Our primary concern since the outbreak of corona virus has been the health and safety of our co-workers and candidates. Because of this, we have adapted our recruiting processes to be fully digital.