Cloud Engineer

Verisure is a global leading provider of professionally monitored security solutions and we are an international company with many nationalities and locations. The business is growing every year expanding both geographically and into new product areas. We have a start-up mindset, with high performance and we are value-driven.  

We protect more than 10 million people across almost 4 million households in 16 countries. We protect people from intrusion, fire and flood - and we save lives! 

Every country has an organisation with Sales and Operations, supported by Verisure Group functions. One of those is our Technology areas where we have 700+ technology engineers working in an international organisation with the main hubs in Malmö, Linköping, Madrid and Geneva. Although we are placed in different offices, we work as one team and across borders, and with close relationship to the country organisations.  

As we are growing, Verisure Innovation is now looking for a driven, engaged Cloud Engineer reporting to the IT Infrastructure Manager and will be a key member of the IT Operations team focusing on Network, Infrastructure and Cloud solutions.

Main Responsibilities

Offered to you is a great opportunity to take charge over the control stick and steer our organization towards the sky. The Cloud Engineer role is a new role and you will have the opportunity to grow in the role and have big impact on the business.  The team is divided into two teams; Network and Infrastructure and since knowledge sharing is a fundamental part of who we are, you will have good support from colleagues around you. As our Cloud Engineer you will focus on:
* Managing the growing Verisure cloud platform across Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
* Continue the migration of Verisure infrastructure and network services to the cloud platform.
* Propose solutions according to best practice and to provide cloud-based resources for development teams or business units.
* Responsible for improving and evolving our cloud automation, as well as support other teams in achieving their goals in that area.

Verisure focuses on minimizing time-to-market and improve on agility by utilizing automation and Infrastructure-as-code. The main technologies used at the moment are Ansible and Terraform, and they are an important part for our cloud maturity.

What you bring

You consider yourself a passionate, adaptable person with a great sense of humour and have good communications skills. You are a doer who make quick and clear decisions. You enjoy working in a team and you find it fundamental to respect the views and contributions of others. You easily follow procedures, though you gladly present your own ideas when you feel it is needed. We also see that you have at least 5 years of experience in:

* Working with IT infrastructure across Linux and Microsoft platforms.
* Running and maintaining both classical servers and in cloud operation.
* Experienced in Microsoft Azure or AWS – ideally both.
* Experience of migrating services to the cloud.
* Experience with automation in general and a profound understanding of the automation mindset.
* Worked with project management and driven your own projects

As we are an international company and since you will also work together with our other offices around Europe, we find it fundamental that you are fluent in both verbal and written English. If you have an interested in strategy and have a desire to work with the strategic parts of the cloud in the future, we see this as meriting.

By joining IT Operations at Verisure, you will be part of a passionate group of people that love what they do. They apply an agile mindset and methods while ensuring services run according to defined levels with the business operation at heart. While working remote at the time, the rituals with daily updates and coffee breaks continues and the colleagues are constantly looking for ways to improve. Our teams operate with integrity and respect for one another fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit. We are building a high-performance organization through investing in our people, we offer a great opportunity to personal development with an environment characterized by humbleness and knowledge sharing and to enhance the on the job training we have a training budget to ensure personal growth.

If all the above sounds exciting to you - apply today! We look forward to welcoming you into our team!

Keywords: Cloud (cost control, reliability, operational excellence, performance, security), Azure, AWS, Infrastructure-as-code