DevOps Engineer with passion for Observability | SEB, Solna

If you are a passionate and innovative engineer/software engineer who loves working in an agile environment and are looking for an opportunity to influence and expand our Observability Enablement and feature development. We need you and your skills.

SEB is more than just a bank with an IT function. We are a progressive tech company powered by innovation and fuelled by collaboration. From COBOL to AI and everything in between, we offer you an impressive tech stack and several technology paths. Together we're innovating for a sustainable society and building the tech arena of the future, a welcoming space for everyone. Are you ready to take on a new challenge? If so, you'll be interested in this opportunity!

About the role

We are on a Digital transformation journey at the SEB. The Monitoring team is in charge of developing solutions that focus on application developers and engineers that run infrastructure and services supporting our applications. We now need a passionate and innovative engineer/software engineer who loves working in an agile environment. You will get the opportunity to influence and expand our Observability Enablement and feature development for our Observability stack.

Our Monitoring team is at the heart of Operational Intelligence supporting every engineering team at SEB. The team builds the Monitoring and Observability solution for operational metrics, centralized logging, and distributed tracing for every team at SEB, private and public cloud (GCP, Azure, AWS). When you join us, you will be part of a visionary team managing the architecture, design, and operation of our future at SEB within the Observability area. If you look for a possibility to grow, influence our transition, work in an entrepreneurial and innovative environment, this is your chance.

As a DevOps Observability Engineer, you will be:

• Together with the team, you will be responsible for the architecture and continued development of our logging, monitoring and event management offerings. Following market trends to explore, research and ensure we always stay on top to create impact and make a difference to all teams at SEB.

• As an DevOps Observability engineer, you will collaborate with teams across SEB to build and deliver Observability solutions.

• You will also work with micro services and APIs for integration in our CI/CD tool chain both on-prem, private and public cloud.

• Lead and promote good software engineering practices within an agile/iterative development approach in order to improve time to market and fulfill business needs.

• Onboard, coach and mentor engineers in order to secure transfer of competence and a high performing team.

• Lead and coach in change activities in different environments in order to secure functionality and availability.

• Support design specifications and ensure that Products or Services are aligned, working closely together with other functions to ensure end-to-end business delivery.

• Responsible for contributing to teams daily operational support activities. Such as On-Call.

To thrive in this role, we believe you have

• Qualifications in computer science, software engineering, or any engineering equivalent 5+ years of Professional experience as an Engineer with focus on application and infrastructure Monitoring

• Professional experience working in agile/iterative software development teams with a DevOps working setup and with an emphasis on self-organization and delivery to agreed commitments.

• We believe you are a passionate engineer with 5+ years of experience in engineering with advance level proficiency in Python and Node Js. Or similar, and Cloud management techniques.

• Experience from DevOps for applications and infrastructure is a must.

• Experience with Observability management products (Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus) is a a big plus and working with cloud management at scale is beneficial.

• Experience in Service Level Objective (SLO), Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Monitoring configuration

• Strong analytical skills, experience in debugging, code optimization, test

• Understanding of the value stream of Observability solutions from development to operation deployment.

• Practical experience of analysis of operational metrics, traces and logs related to enterprise deployments in Cloud and on-prem platforms, containerized (Docker, Kubernetes) deployments and CI/CD pipelines.

• Work planning, tracking and documentation using primarily Jira/Confluence and GitHub.

• Knowledge and experience with Open Telemetry.

• Knowledge of LCM (Life Cycle Management) of systems/applications.

• Knowledge and understanding of hosting platforms such as OpenShift/Docker.

Who are we looking for as a person?

• Outgoing & positive team player

• You have ability to clearly and succinctly express ideas, facts, and opinions.

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

• Flexible and willing to take ownership.

• Up for a challenge and ready to try out new ideas that can also lead into new innovations.

What we offer

We offer many experiences and benefits to our employees, and there is nuance to every individual’s career experience, but the elements that define the core of our offering are:

• Extensive training and learning opportunities.

• Work-life balance

• International opportunities and working environment.

• Access to SEB staff banking with exclusive benefits

• Innovative company in forefront of technology

• Mobility within a large global company

• Agile and modern ways of working

• Empowering environment