Database-Flavored Site Reliability Engineer

Would you like to be part of a technically skilled and very helpful team that plays an important part of Verisure’s success?

Are you a curious and courageous person that loves to solve both simple and complex problems in the backend, enabling endless possibilities for end-customer products and services?

Have you used, or even setup, MySQL and worked with self-service and automation of some sort?

If you are, you may be the next member we are looking for to join our global Verisure family!
Verisure Innovation is Sweden’s award-winning innovation center for the connected and protected smart home market. We create services and products for smarter, safer and more secure homes, serving customers throughout Europe.

We offer
A database-flavored Site Reliability Engineer role in the Platform & Application Operations team at Verisure Innovation in Malmö. The role is key to preserving our extremely high uptime requirements at the same time as preparing the platform for the future. You will be one of a few database specialists and thus have a large responsibility and freedom within the area. In our world-class team, you will make a positive difference for our internal and external customers.

You will take an active part in projects with internally developed services, third party products, databases and microservices as well as solving a broad span of urgent maintenance tasks. We are building a platform as a product to DevOps teams. Typical tasks are system automation, OS and application patching, database engine installation, configuration and maintenance. We offer a great opportunity for personal development within a friendly working environment characterized by knowledge sharing.

Our bright and open office space is easily accessible just a five-minute walk from the Central Station in Malmö. This will be your base, but we also offer remote work.

You bring
You are skilled in system automation, preferably Ansible, and database administration, for example MySQL or Cassandra or similar. You have a broad technical interest on top of your database skills. We believe you are interested in the whole system and eager to ship in no matter where the problem lies together with the rest of the team.

You are proficient in Linux and open source and able to do advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis in large scale environments. You are experienced in scripting languages such as Bash, Python or similar. Experience of working with Docker, Kubernetes and knowledge of cloud computing is beneficial.

We are looking for a passionate technical specialist who works in a systematic and orderly way. A person who easily identifies your own development needs and makes use of opportunities. To succeed in this role, you need to have the ability to work productively in a fast-paced environment. You also need to be a true team player who supports others in our team, shares information when needed and helps to build team spirit.

We are an international company with offices and colleagues in multiple countries. To ensure efficiency and clear communication we need all employees to be fluent in English.

If all this sounds exciting to you - apply today! We look forward to welcoming you into our team!

Strong fit with our Company DNA:
* Passionate in Everything We Do: Our people have a sense of energy that is unmistakable, one that drives us to delight our customers and focus on creating impact quickly.
* Committed to Making a Difference: When we say we will do something; we deliver with excellence. We are accountable, focused and operate with discipline.
* Always Innovating: We believe that Innovation can be big or small; it’s a continuous state of mind that inspires us to think differently and always make things better. We are risk-takers and we learn continuously.
* Winning as a Team: Our people know that by leveraging one another’s strengths, investing in and developing our team’s capability and by collaborating well, we will win.
* With Trust & Responsibility: Operating with integrity is core to our success. We are humble, honest and value deep mastery and expertise. We do the right thing, always.