Linux technician/SysOps Engineer at PriceRunner/Klarna

Are you ready to be part of the journey to build a huge system in Cloud environment towards an international expansion? Keep on reading!

OFFER

PriceRunner (internally called Search & Compare Group within Klarna) is creating the worlds favourite way to shop by revolutionizing the way people make well informed decisions all over the world! Besides finding the best quality to the best price you’ll be part of making online shopping more climate-friendly and sustainable.

PriceRunner now being part an international company comes with great opportunities to grow, both as an individual and in your career.

PriceRunner can offer you an exciting and challenging job in an international, successful and very dynamic organization. PriceRunner works for continuous development and to always be at the very forefront of new ideas and technology.

You get to be part of an exciting journey and get to work in a data-driven and innovative team with great passion for technology and products. An exciting job where we help several million people make smarter decisions. In addition, we also see that personal and professional development is stimulated.

The technical challenges come from the huge volume of products and e-merchants as well as new prices being changed and corrected over 300 million times per day and over 10 million visitors per month.

Some of the benefits of working at PriceRunner:

- Ultra-modern technologies at the absolute technical forefront

- Extraordinary skilled colleagues

- You will get strong personal development for your future career

- Be part of shaping "the worlds favourite way to shop"

- An open and welcoming company with a distinctly flat organization

- Flexible working hours/remote

COMPANY CULTURE

The culture is characterized by openness and it is easy to collaborate with everyone, regardless of team and tasks. Here, every voice matters. We’re organized into hundreds of small teams, each run like a start-up, focused on their own problem-space.

You are encouraged to collaborate across the company. The office is located in central Stockholm and together with talented colleagues.

We offer the opportunity to work remotely and from the office if they so wish. In addition, employees can now work at a Klarna office abroad for up to 20 days per year, which promotes global team building, personal development and career opportunities. To ensure that employees are properly equipped for this new way of working, Klarna also provides each employee with a certain amount of financial support per year as well as equipment that can be used to improve personal home offices or upgrade work accessories.

THE TEAM & ROLE

As part of the CSS Platform Foundation Team you'll have an important role to keep improving our technical platform. You'll be working with Linux administration, configuration management, setup of the infrastructure and support to the developers to make sure they have all the tools they need. You'll get full access to all systems from day 1 and have a shared responsibility for the operation together with your colleagues and the rest of the team.

The team consists of both System and DevOps Engineers and you will be working closely together to keep improving the automation of infrastructure to make sure developers can create, scale and tweak infrastructure in a timely manner. We are working actively to ensure that every piece of infrastructure we create both in the Datacenter and in AWS should be setup with the Infrastructure as Code.

You will also be involved in the implementation of a micro-services architecture with emphasis on continuous deployment and automation together with the platform and development teams.

You'll be working in a extremely stable system, even if things happen all the time. The role includes that you'll be part of the on-call schedule once every fifth week to make sure our systems is up 24/7.

YOUR PROFILE

We are looking for someone who has a genuine interest in technology and a positive drive with the desire to constantly learn new things. Infrastructure as Code should be something that you think is very important and you should work with the philosophy that everything that can be automated should be automated. You are a talented Linux Engineer and have good analytical abilities and rise for the challenge when problems occur who want to help us take our technical platform to the next level.

We are looking for you who have at least 2 years of experience in:

- Linux (rhel, CentOS)

- Docker

- Virtualization (KVM, VMware)

- Configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Salt)

- Monitoring and troubleshooting

Meritorious if you also have experience in:

- Hashicorp stack (Consul, Nomad, Vault, Terraform)

- Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

- Webservers (HAproxy, Nginx, Apache)

- ElasticSearch

- Databases (Postgres, Mongodb, Mysql)

- Programming experience

ABOUT PRICERUNNER

On our path to becoming the world’s favorite way to shop, we’re assembling an unparalleled global talent network, accelerating individual careers, and disrupting entire industries. We are on a mission to liberate humanity from all the meaningless time spent managing their purchases and finances, so they can do more of what they love. We’re in search of global talent eager to embrace our atmosphere and defy their own expectations.

PriceRunner's exciting journey continues and now we are entering an international expansion! PriceRunner has established several new services that have had great success. PriceRunner is centrally located and has grown to just about 170 people within Search & Compare (55 in tech).