Senior Systems Engineer, Group Digital, INGKA Group

Why should you join IKEA?

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. Working at IKEA is a unique opportunity to contribute to our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people.

Why we will love you

We are looking for a passionate Senior Systems Engineer who strives for engineering excellence and excels in constantly changing environments. You are excited about systems architecture and modern technologies (Edge computing, IoT, PaaS offerings at a global scale). You want to take part in shaping the future of IKEA influencing the hosting services of approximately 500 distributed sites! We are looking for a new colleague.

• Extensive knowledge in Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) technology.
• Extensive experience in automation and scripting/coding (Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell)
• Extensive knowledge of common development concepts such as Git, CI/CD and working REST API's
• Extensive experience in managing MS Windows and Linux server
• Extensive knowledge in server management, monitoring, and dashboard creation in enterprise environment
• Good architecture and design experience in hosting infrastructure
• Holistic view in Cyber security in relation to hosting infrastructure
• Good knowledge of Network stack
• Constant desire to learn, improve and enable others to grow in your area of expertise
• Leadership experience and ability to lead a team of experienced System Engineers
• Experience in a retail or distribution business is beneficial, but not excluding.

Who you are

We believe you have several years of managing Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), MS Windows, and Linux server experience. You are willing to grow into other Infrastructure areas such as Open-Source hosting.

We believe that you have extensive knowledge of hosting infrastructure architecture.

We believe you have good experience in designing and managing high-availability solutions including clustering.

We value knowledge in Stores and Offices distributed environments.

We value leadership and coaching in our team members.

Your responsibilities

Among many tasks you will:

• Be a part of the development, provisioning, operation, and life-cycle management of core infrastructure solutions through automation and self-service capabilities in our stores and offices globally
• Ensure and review systems compliance towards legislations, policies, or other requirements
• Take responsibility for cooperation and align key stakeholders throughout the IKEA Group with interdependencies towards Group Digital to develop Product/Service design and technical roadmaps
• You will establish the needed dashboards for the visualization of our service metrics such as usage, cost, and compliance to ensure our efficiency.

Together as a team

As a Senior Systems Engineer you will be a part of the team responsible for designing and delivering well-designed, secured, and scalable core infrastructure solutions to support consumers across IKEA globally on our distributed sites. You will be surrounded by skilled & experienced engineers that are organized in small fully empowered Agile teams.

We are on a journey to assist our consumers with shifting from traditional computing solutions into scalable, loosely coupled & secure patterns that help improve the business objectives and enable agility, scalability, and flexibility for our consumers.

We strive for the modernization of our area based on consumer needs. We are on a constant journey to assist our consumers with shifting infrastructure technology to be the market leader in our business.

We value consumer feedback promptly to enable fast response to the resolution. We believed we will gain development speed via building infrastructure as code. We are responsible for the things we build and design throughout the whole life cycle, which means operations are an important part of our work.

The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day-to-day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it's important for us that you share our values!

At IKEA, we welcome all dimensions of diversity. A diverse and inclusive workplace is good for our co-workers,... Simply put, we believe the uniqueness of every individual makes IKEA better!