Junior Systems Engineer

“At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people.

We are on a Digital transformation journey at the iconic IKEA. To support the digital transformation, operations and monitoring data is core in ensuring transparency and availability of our solutions used by our customers. We need a passionate and innovative software engineer who loves working in an agile environment, enabling our logging and event management product APIs for integration in our CI/CD tool chain both on-prem, private and public cloud. If you look for a possibility to grow, influence our transition, work in an entrepreneurial and innovative environment, this is your chance.

REQUIREMENTS

We believe you are on a journey to get solid experience in programming for automation, integration and API development. You may have just graduated from university or have a few years of work experience.

If you have a background in systems administration and understand the importance of log analytics and event management in an operational context for applications end to end observability, this is a bonus. Operational experience with Splunk or similar (Elastic, SumoLogic, etc ), event management products and cloud management at scale is beneficial.

Who you are

• Passionate engineer with experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one programming language (preferably Python)

• Understanding of CI/CD, DevOps and GitHub

• Enjoy working in a very diverse, distributed and open environment

• Have growth and innovation mindset

• Have formal education as a Software Engineer or proven equivalent experience

• Fluent in English

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Working in agile teams and across the capability area, contributing to the development and maintenance of integrations, automations and enablement packages for our log analytics and event management solution based on Splunk

• Development of quality software and apis quickly, reliably and safely to production, and understanding the customer impact and experience of your contribution

• Providing support and guidance as needed to other team members encouraging good practices, as well as creating an environment based on psychological safety

TOGETHER AS A TEAM

We’re a small team consisting of 6 people working closely with our operations team. We are quite 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. We are based in Malmö and Dortmund, but a mix of local and remote work is not a problem.

We are passionate about building easy to consume capabilities supporting the need to high quality data insight in the operational process at IKEA. Giving business and operations team support and insight into availability and performance of critical business applications and infrastructure enables successful delivery of service to our customers. Our close collaborations with development teams supporting a devOps mindset enables us to continuously explore new technologies and opportunities.

We believe a healthy and flexible life balance is important, so together we will strive to create a work environment where you feel in control of your life balance, can be yourself, grow and excel in both your personal and professional life.