Developer Infrastructure Engineer

About the role
Next Position are now recruting a Developer Infastructure engineer to Collegial, an EdTech company based in Stockholm.

"With over 15 000 users worldwide, you will join our quest to create the most engaging and accessible corporate learning experience in the world. You will work in a cross-functional Agile team of skilled developers and together with your team develop the platform that supports companies and users in keeping up with the growing need of continuous learning."

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Collegial, you will take the lead on evolving the operation of our cloud environments and software services, drawing input from the entire development team. You will be the go-to person when it comes to cloud environments and be responsible for sharing your infrastructure expertise with our development teams. The key aspects of this role include:

- Continuously refine our infrastructure as code setup.
- Analyze, propose and put in place key metrics, and evolve our current instrumentation and monitoring toolchain and setup.
- Define alerts and escalation mechanisms and processes.
- Iteratively improve our CI/CD, release process and toolchain with the rest of the development team.
- Take point on platform and data security and best practices.
- Define, implement, document and continuously refine our backup and recovery procedures and services- including dry runs with the team on the top disaster recovery scenarios.
- Be part of the product development team and develop software in GO or Typescript.





Who you are
To succeed in this role, you have hands-on experience in defining, implementing and operating cloud environments independently. You will be our infrastructure expert and that’s why we expect you to be comfortable with owning our cloud infrastructure and sharing your knowledge with our development teams.

We expect you to have hands-on experience building Cloud infrastructure in AWS and experience in creating and maintaining Kubernetes clusters. You have a good understanding of Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform and an informed perspective on cloud observability solutions for Metrics, Logging, Profiling and Tracing such as DataDog. You also have a development background and can contribute to the development of our Go or Typescript-based platform.

You understand the retaliative merits of using managed services and constantly monitor and optimise our cloud usage and cost ensuring that we always get the most out of every dollar of our cloud bill. You have a holistic perspective of how to identify and remediate performance bottlenecks, robustness issues and security weaknesses in application code on the basis of a thorough understanding of AWS cloud services in general and GKE in particular.

We believe that you have some years of experience working with software development in an Agile setting and curiosity to learn and eagerness to collaborate with those around you.

What we offer
We are an international and passionate team of tech and organizational learning enthusiasts, who work with modern software in cloud environments. We have a fun and driven atmosphere with short decision paths. At Collegial we believe that transparency, honesty, and constructive communication are key to making great things happen. Our team and environment are characterized by skilled and dedicated employees. We offer you the opportunity to be a part of building a successful EdTech company that is aiming to transform the way we learn in today's fast-paced world. We offer flexibility, fun team activities, and an office in central Stockholm. Moreover, our benefits package includes:

- Healthy work-life balance and possibility to work remotely a couple of days a week
- Pension package
- Health insurance, travel, and accident insurance
- Individual learning budget
- Health allowance package
- Competitive salary
- Work computer and phone of your choice


About the company
Collegial is a Stockholm-based EdTech company with partners, learners and employees across the globe. Being in the EdTech industry, we strive to walk the talk – to develop ourselves and those around us, building an inclusive culture of continuous learning.

We founded Collegial with the philosophy that sharing knowledge across companies and industries will help all involved move faster together. We are developing a Corporate Learning Platform that enables companies and public sector organizations to accelerate continuous professional development in the workplace and in society-at-large.

To reimagine the way we learn in the workplace we have gathered a team of creative developers and learning designers alongside senior leaders from industry, public sector and academia. Together we work to create great learning experiences for our community of learners and constantly strive to develop ourselves and those around us - building an inclusive culture of continuous learning.

Our vision is to offer the most engaging and impactful corporate learning experience in the world. We are in an exciting scale-up phase with launching new customers and constantly developing our platform and that is where we need your help.