Cloud Network Engineer Volvo Group Connected Solutions

Cloud Network Engineer – Volvo Group Connected Solutions
Volvo Group Connected Solutions is a global organization that leads the development of Volvo’s connected services and solutions of tomorrow. We work at the forefront of connectivity by collecting and analyzing data from over 1 000 000 Volvo customer assets. The organization is set-up to deliver competitive offerings, shorten time to market and provide an arena for new service innovations together with customers, partners and the Volvo Group.

As you can imagine, keeping track of over 1 000 000 connected customer assets rolling around the world is indeed a challenge. Now ponder, that vehicles in a few years will be autonomous – and you’ve got the challenge of your life. Our Technology team manages the development and maintenance of our global connectivity platform – and your experience is needed.

We are now looking for a Cloud Network Engineer within our Network Operations team.


Role description
The Network Operations team support the delivery of Volvo´s connected vehicle services worldwide and has the full responsibility for the design, implementation and availability of the global hybrid network infrastructure. Our network encompasses both on-premise data centres as well as our regional cloud-based sites and our work is focused on our application´s security and end-customer availability. Together with the other enthusiastic team members you will be working on a broad range of activities including incident management, maintenance, implementing change requests as well as participating in designing and rolling out new services and infrastructure. With a broad range of both traditional networking hardware as well as cloud-based Infrastructure-as-code, you will be working at the heart of our transport solution connectivity in an exciting global environment where there is a lot to learn and even more to be accomplished!


Personal Attributes
What we need is a skilled and enthusiastic individual, someone that enjoys creating and fixing with a solid network background and in depth understanding of the protocols, techniques and tooling commonly used. If you don´t know how to solve something, you find out. Scripting skills will be needed, IaaS and automation are central to our deliveries. A structured, organized individual with a passion for learning and a drive to automate everything could well describe you. Customer focused and a natural team player, you enjoy driving both individual and team deliveries with an enthusiastic and problem-solving mindset.

Key Responsibilities
Design, implement and test robust network solutions supporting our customer service needs.
Providing support during incidents and deployments, occasionally outside of office hours.
Troubleshooting system failures and identifying bottlenecks.
Working with our partners to ensure solid end-to-end network implementations.
Looking for ways to improve network security, reliability, performance, automation and cost.
Maintaining and documenting infrastructure, improving monitoring and dashboards.

Competence Profile & Qualifications
Very good understanding of LAN/WAN networks, TCP/IP protocols and network technologies.
Good understanding and experience of cloud networking technologies and services.
Good linux as well as scripting skills.
Experience of web/api and application focused networking.
Excellent diagnostic, problem-solving and analytical skills.
Experienced in automation, configuration and management of network infrastructure.
Specific experience of Juniper, Big IP F5 and Palo Alto systems is an advantage.
Good understanding of software development and micro component application architecture.
Runtime DevOps experience desired.
Industry certifications are a plus.

Location
The position is based at our attractive waterside offices in Lindholmen, Gothenburg, Sweden.


For more information please contact Craig Tivendale , Manager – Hosting & Delivery +46 703 222980