Experienced Tech lead as OpenShift Platform owner, Solna

Would you like to be part of our team, building a world class platform supporting PostNord’s business critical production systems? We are looking for an experienced Tech lead who can spearhead the development of our cloud-based container platform, also acting as Platform owner.

Join us

The team consists of a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Tech lead (you) and DevOps engineers. This position is to fill the role as Tech lead and you will also be the formal Platform Owner. We use Jira and Confluence for planning and documentation. Bitbucket, Tekton, ArgoCD, Jenkins and SonarQube are other tools in use. The team is distributed across Sweden and India.

We have a hybrid way of working and most of the teamwork is done digitally. You will be part of an open and including team, continually working to improve individually and as a team with the purpose to contribute to making everyday life easier for our customers and our business.

Job duties

In this role you will have the technical responsibility for PostNord’s OpenShift platform and the services associated with it, including CI/CD, e.g. ensuring high availability and security. Your overall objective is to improve quality, time to market, reliability, availability, maintainability, security and scalability of the system.

You will work with, among other things:

- the platform architecture and implement changes (in a close collaboration with solution architects and the team).
- evaluate new technology and introduce whenever feasible.
- manage the technical debt of the system and plan for small and large changes to address the technical debt.

We are looking for you who have

- Academic degree in IT or equivalent knowledge and skills acquired through work experience and continuing professional education.
- Deep understanding of Docker concepts and technology. 
- Knowledge of OpenShift 4.x (Operators, networking, CI/CD on OpenShift), different kinds of setup (IPI and UPI), rough knowledge about licensing. 
- Understanding of principles of cloud agnostic platforms.
- Good understanding of Linux.
- Fluency in at least one scripting/code language such as Ruby, Shell, Python, or Groovy.
- Experience with code repositories (Git), continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins or Tekton).
- Good understanding of infrastructure as code, e.g. using Terraform/Helm charts etc.
- Experience with OpenShift architecture on infrastructure and platform level. CI/CD principles, architecture, and operations. OpenShift administration, managing and orchestrating Pods.
- Experience in taking system architectural and software design decisions, modelling and implementing these.
- Good knowledge in developing IT products with focus on security, scalability, reliability, and availability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

The following competences and experience are meritorious

- Experience working in distributed development teams, preferably offshore or nearshore
- Message queues and streaming, AMQ/Fuse (or equivalent) and Kafka
- Understanding of API gateways
- Cloud based infrastructure and development Azure, or AWS
- Used to work in a DevOps model. Agile methodologies like SAFe or Scrum

We believe you are a person that is analytical and who can easily get acquainted with and learn new systems. Your way of working is inclusive, structured and responsible. You need to be able to handle stressful situations and prioritize job tasks independently. You are communicative and easy to collaborate with, and are unpretentious in your way of creating and nurturing long-term relationships.

We offer you

- Great development opportunities and you will be able to certification and training in relevant technology like Microsoft Azure.
- Drive technology modernization and transformation working with implementing new and modern technology stack.
- Work in a Nordic and hybrid environment.
- Wellness allowance & access to the office´s gym and health centre.
- Employee benefits through PostNord´s own personnel foundation https://www.postnordplus.com/.
- Great occupational pension terms.

We make everyday life easier

PostNord is the leading supplier of communication and logistics solutions to, from, and within the Nordic region. We ensure the provision of a postal service to households and businesses in Sweden and Denmark. We aim to make everyday life easier and more sustainable for everyone who lives and works in the Nordic region.

We are accountable, brave and committed, effectively leading change regardless if we lead our self or others. We emphasize teamwork, sincerity and positive relationships in the workplace. We build on our success and learn from both colleagues and mistakes. People with different backgrounds work with us. You will therefore be part of a workplace with great diversity, which contributes to better results for the business. Visit us at https://www.postnord.com/

Apply

We look forward to receive your application! We review applications on an ongoing basis, and If you have any questions or concerns, you are welcome to contact Nikoletta Révész Gudmann on phone number: +45 20 99 78 61

For union representatives, visit: https://postnord.varbi.com/center/tool/position/510360/edit/tab:1/www.postnord.com/fackliga

We are looking forward to hear from you!

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