Senior Site Reliability Engineer

At Viaplay Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, TV channels and production studios. We believe in the power of content not just as a way of telling stories and touching lives, but also expanding worlds.  

We’re looking for the best people to join us on our journey. Right now, we’re searching for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for our Stockholm office - are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change? 

The role 
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be a key contributor to our core infrastructure. This by ensuring that we retain stable, up-to-date, and modern systems to serve Viaplay Group’s numerous services ranging from internal development to customer-facing streaming.

You will be joining the Content Infrastructure team that is responsible for large parts of Viaplay Group’s core infrastructure. The team works with these pillars of infrastructure - Compute, Network, Storage, and Security - in a hybrid cloud environment. We encourage a culture of open communication and information sharing to achieve efficiency in not having to solve the same problems twice.

Some of your daily tasks will include:

- Provide private cloud services through multiple virtualization technologies.

- Manage multi-petabyte storage for several departments

- Build and manage the streaming platform where all Viaplay Sports and streaming TV channels originate

We work in a rolling 24/7 on-call schedule where you will have one week of on-call duties once every 5 to 6 weeks.

What we’re looking for 
We are searching for someone who is goal-oriented, analytical, service-conscious, and accurate with quality as peer. With your experiences, we believe you could contribute to the team with latest updates in the field and drive change in the domain.

In order to thrive in this role, we do believe you’ll have at least some experience in the following:

- Working with various Linux distributions

- Proficiency in scripting, most preferably Python

- Working in modern datacenter layer 2 and layer 3 networking

- Automation and configuration management tools - Salt, Ansible, etc.

- Managing distributed storage systems

To summarize, you need a lot of experience in different fields, but it is not necessary to be an expert in any of them. The team strives to be Sysadmin Full stack - thus the most important requirement is a solid Linux base.

It’s a bonus if you have: 

- Docker and Kubernetes management experience

- BGP routing experience in multi homed environments

- Spectrum Scale management experience

- Load balancing and Caching optimization

Our offering 

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We’ve got the basics covered (and then some)! 30 days of paid vacation every year and extra compensation on top of a parental pay lift.  

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Your wellbeing matters. We have an attractive pension and insurance scheme with full health care coverage should you need it. 

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A safe space to grow and up-skill with the freedom to try new things in autonomous teams. Our learning culture puts you in the driver’s seat of your own development, while always making sure you feel supported with regular knowledge-sharing sessions, technical training, mentorship opportunities and peer-to-peer networks. 

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An innovative environment with yearly Hack Days. This week-long initiative allows you to think outside the box and deliver creative, technical solutions that (more often than not) go on to be implemented, either in our product or our ways of working.

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Entertainment is what we love, and entertainment is what we do. So, unlimited access to Viaplay seems only fair for you to get to know the product - including live sports & pay per view events, new release movie rentals, linear channels and more. 

Hit play today 

If this feels like your kind of challenge, make sure you apply by attaching your CV here - you may also want to add your LinkedIn profile. Please don’t send us your application via email because we won’t be able to accept it. We do, however, welcome any questions you may have about this particular position. 

Want to learn more about who we are and what we do? Check out our careers page (https://careers.viaplaygroup.com/) or follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lifeatviaplaygroup/)! We’re only ever a few clicks away.