DevOps Engineer – Kafka

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Job Description

Energy is our contribution to quality of life – day after day. Vattenfall provides comprehensive electricity and heating offerings to several million customers in Northern Europe. The energy market is in transition, from large scale power plant energy production to newer forms of energy: sustainable and locally generated. We need your talent to make this happen!

Be part of an international team in one of the leading energy companies across Europe. Work in a connected environment with all Vattenfall business units and contribute to our goal to become fossil free within one generation.

We are looking for an ambitious DevOps Engineer – Kafka, who will be part of our Integration Services Team within Vattenfall IT. The location for this position is flexible: Stockholm, Hamburg, Amsterdam, or Katowice.

Your role

You will be taking part in the digitalisation of Vattenfall business by developing and maintaining integration solutions, where innovation and efficiency are equally important as security and stability.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• You will join our strong international DevOps team, getting the possibility to work with multiple technologies for integrating systems and data.
• Being a combination of project work and operative support for solutions in production, this position offers a lot of variety and professional development opportunities.
• The main focus of this position is on event stream processing technology based on Apache Kafka.
• You build and support a highly available environment and you support our development teams with initial setup and troubleshooting.

Location

Stockholm, Hamburg, Amsterdam, or Katowice

Qualifications

Your profile

To succeed as DevOps Engineer – Kafka, you should be self-driven, exact, analytic, and know how to prioritize. You are not only an experienced technician, but you also have the competence to understand the needs of the business. You are open-minded, passionate about IT, and you enjoy working in an international team.

Next to this you bring:

• Academic degree, preferably in IT, Computer Science, Information Management, or other relevant field
• At least 5 years of work experience as an IT Operations Engineer, or DevOps Engineer in a corporate environment
• Fluent in English; knowledge of one of our local languages would be a plus (Swedish, Dutch, German, or Polish)
• Work experience in the following technologies:
• Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka infrastructure and knowledge in Kafka to handle enterprise-scale production system support
• Administration of Linux operating systems
• Configuration management framework like Ansible
• Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Open Search
• CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps
• Experience with Docker or container environments in general

In addition to the above, it would be beneficial if you have work experience in any of the following areas:

• Kadeck UI for Apache Kafka
• Azure & Kubernetes
• Programming languages like C# or Java
• Scripting languages like PowerShell, Bash, Python

Additional information

Our offer

Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information

We welcome your application in English, no later than, 10th of September 2023. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Dominik Friebe via phone: +49 40 790221374.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

Trade union representatives in Sweden Silvija Vatkovic (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application!