Systems Engineer

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
We are looking for a passionate 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.

To succeed as a Systems Engineer you have:

• We believe you have several years of managing Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI). You are willing to grow into other Infrastructure area such as Open-Source hosting.
• Good Experience of automation and scripting/coding (Go, Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell) to enable infrastructure automation
• Knowledge of common development concepts such as Git, CI/CD and working with REST API’s
• MS Windows and Linux server experience
• Knowledge in server management, monitoring, dashboard creation in enterprise environment
• Basic knowledge of Network stack
• Constant desire to learn, improve and enable other to grow in your area of expertise
• Experience from a retail or distribution business is beneficial, but not mandatory.
• We believe you have experience in designing and managing high availability solution including clustering.

A DAY IN YOUR LIFE WITH US
As a Systems Engineer within Distributed Hosting Store/Office, 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. Distributed Hosting Store/Office Team has co-workers in Sweden (Helsingborg and Älmhult) and China (Shanghai).
We are on a journey to assist our consumers with shifting from traditional compute solutions into scalable, loosely coupled & secure patterns that help improve the business objectives and enable agility, scalability and flexibility for our consumers.

ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.

QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
The role is based in Helsingborg, and you will report to Hiring manager, Hiong Seng Goh (Chris) – Distributed Hosting Store/Office. For more information about the role, please reach out to hiongseng.goh1@ingka.ikea.com. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to tech recruiter, Namrata Mahajan at namrata.mahajan@ingka.ikea.com.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.

From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014”

We will be interviewing continuously and are looking forward to hearing from you!