Teamlead for DevOps Engineer at Air traffic Management systems at Saab

Join our creative and international environment to help us shape the future of air-traffic management systems, and offer efficient delivery of integrated software systems to airport control towers around the world.

About the company
The IATS (integrated air-traffic control suite) department develops and delivers complex, customised software for civil aviation, as part of the ATM tower systems business unit.

Saab is a company with a strong people-orientation. We offer a friendly work environment where we support and help each other to be at our best. Continuous learning, career & talent development and employee well-being are examples of areas where we always put the strongest effort to offer great opportunities.

Job description
The IATS DevOps team aim is to apply software engineering principles, and modern methods found in the wider community, to the process of building, releasing, and deploying IATS software and configuration.

The team’s responsibilities cover:
1. Designing, developing, and maintaining IATS development & build infrastructure (internal systems and tools)
2. Designing and implementing the IATS deployment subsystem (delivered as part of the product)
3. Helping to improve our delivery processes and tools (the bridge between 1 and 2)

What we work with:
• Linux systems (Red Hat and Debian derivatives)
• Software tools and services, mostly written in Python and Bash
• The IATS software itself, written in C++. This is ultimately the responsibility of component maintainers
• Software version control with Git, Subversion
• Build pipelines, currently implemented with Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory
• Software packaging (RPM, deb)
• Virtualisation, virtual machine management, containers
• Improving automation and refactoring existing tools to give us continuous integration and continuous delivery. Doing it right!
• IP network design, implementation, and debugging (incl. Ethernet, VLANs, IPv4, IPv6, multicast, TCP, UDP)
• Switch configuration (Cisco, Juniper)
• Network services (incl. iSCSI, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, NTP, SNMP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS)
• Information security (incl. OS hardening, file system permissions, TLS, public key certificates, digital signatures, cryptographic hashing)

DevOps Engineer responsibilities
• Design, development, and testing of small-to-medium-scale software programs
• Linux systems administration, automation, integration (with a DevOps / SRE approach)
• Some hardware maintenance and troubleshooting
• Monitoring (hardware, network, software) and analysis

We are currently undergoing organizational change, and moving from Waterfall processes to a more agile approach with automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Your profile
Your profile should include excellent communication skills in both English and Swedish, both written and spoken, and the ability to communicate with different types of people. You should be structured and enjoy keeping things organized. As a person, you should be communicative and analytical, able to see things in context, unafraid to come up with new ideas and happy to cheer on others. Occasional travel is required.

To succeed in this role, you should have previous experience leading a team and a degree in computer science or a related field or experience, along with a deep technical IT knowledge and suitable knowledge in Linux systems.

We offer a dynamic and challenging work environment where you will have the opportunity to contribute to exciting and innovative projects. Apply today and join us in building a secure future for Saab!

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

Application process
In this recruitment Saab collaborates with Skill. We apply continuous selection which means we might close the process before the set ending date.

If you have any questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, please contact Elisa Herrmann at [email protected] or 031-304 68 22.

About us
Skill is a modern competency company with a wide range of services in recuritment, staffing, HR services and skills development. We have strong customer base in technology and industrial companies as well as in IT and tech.

The right people, in the right place, can change everything. When people grow, businesses/companies grow.

People change – everything.