Cloud Engineer

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has around 44 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.


Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.




Your team
The MAX IV Controls and IT team (KITS) deliver solutions to the whole MAX IV organisation in the areas of control system hardware, controls software applications, infrastructure and networking, information management and scientific software.

This is a dynamic and highly challenging environment and requires close collaboration with the staff to understand the needs and be effective in forming solutions. We are around 50 people in total who work in 5 domains in a well organised and agile fashion. We hold values of lean management, knowledge spread, user autonomy, continuous improvement and flexibility as guiding principles for our work.

The smooth functioning of the MAX IV synchrotron facility relies strongly on the efficient, reliable and flexible operation of its IT infrastructure. The site hosts a vast variety of computer equipment, ranging from the control of scientific instruments to HPC and multi petabyte storage to office computing and printers. 

Would you like to work at the brightest lightsource in the world?

MAX IV are looking for a highly motivated individual to help bring our on-prem cloud infrastructure to the next level. Working together with other cloud system engineers, this position is focusing on, but not constrained to, providing cloud-native expertise to our development teams.   

Your main work tasks will be 
•    Work with software developers in migrating applications to the Kubernetes platform.
•    Provide expertise to development teams in container and orchestration technologies.
•    Collaborate with system engineers in the development and evolution of our Kubernetes based on-prem cloud infrastructure.
•    Participation in collaborative projects within MAX IV and other academic partners.

To be successful in this role you need to have the following qualifications 
•    Expertise in container technologies (docker, singularity)
•    Expertise in container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
•    Experience with software development for Kubernetes systems (Helm charts, Operators)
•    Experience with Go programming language and Kubernetes controllers development
•    Solid understanding of the Linux operating system
•    Solid understanding of networking
•    Excellent communication and teamwork skills
•    Fluent in English

Below are seen as merits
•    Experience of using Gitlab CI/CD pipelines
•    Experience of monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana
•    Experience with logging systems (ELK, Graylog)
•    Knowledge of experimental control systems
•    Experience with working in a scientific environment

As a person you are easy going and enjoy working together with other people. You must be open to discuss new solutions and alternative views on the situation. You will be in daily contact with staff that will ask you to solve their problems, good communication skills are essential for a successful candidate. 

What we offer
When you join our MAX IV family, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientist from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development with respect for a healthy work-life balance.

Would you like to work in a challenging and supporting environment? Then join us and take the opportunity to make a real difference!

For further information
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/work-lund-university
http://www.sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careerjobs/comp_and_benefits/



Probationary period may apply.

On call services may apply in the future.



MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Fully developed it will receive more than 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

The MAX IV Controls and IT team (KITS) deliver solutions to the whole MAX IV organisation in the areas of control system hardware, controls software applications, infrastructure and networking, information management and scientific software. This is a dynamic and highly challenging environment and requires close collaboration with the staff in order to understand the needs and be effective in forming solutions. We are around 50 people in total who work in 5 domains in a well organised and agile way. We hold values of lean management, knowledge spread, user autonomy, continuous improvement and flexibility as guiding principles for our work.

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