Infrastructure Manager

At Viaplay Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, TV channels and production studios. We believe in the power of content not just as a way of telling stories and touching lives, but also expanding worlds.  

We’re looking for the best people to join us on our journey. Right now, we’re searching for a Infrastructure Manager in our Stockholm office - are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change? 

The role 
As the Infrastructure Manager, you will lead the Content Infrastructure team, a team of 4 individuals that is responsible for large parts of Viaplay Group’s core infrastructure. In this role, you will be the team manager and operational leader and your daily duties will contribute to the team’s technical work.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

- Lead the daily operational work in the team by contributing hands-on and strategically; from planning, follow-up and completion

- Support the group with prioritizations and resource planning on a daily basis

- Coach, develop and encourage the team members

- Proactively build trust with stakeholders

- Work with competence development and recruitment

- Be responsible for budget and resource distribution within your group.

In addition to your responsibilities as a manager, you will use your competence as the system administrator to be a key contributor to our core infrastructure. This by ensuring that we retain stable, up-to-date, and modern systems to serve Viaplay Group’s numerous services ranging from internal development to customer-facing streaming.

The team
The team works with these pillars of infrastructure - Compute, Network, Storage, and Security - in a hybrid cloud environment. The daily responsibilities lie within, but are not limited to:

- Provide private cloud services through multiple virtualization technologies

- Manage multi-petabyte storage in several departments

- Build and manage the streaming platform where all Viaplay Sports and streaming TV channels originate

What we’re looking for 
We are searching for someone who has been working as a system administrator or infrastructure architect and has a proven track record of successfully managing a sysadmin team. To thrive in this role, we believe you have a technical interest and dedication to mentoring and coaching others. We also think that you have a can-do attitude, and the ability to communicate and work humbly with others.

The ideal candidate meets all or some of the qualifications:

- Experience with various Linux distributions

- Proficiency in scripting, most preferably Python

- Experience with modern datacenter layer 2 and layer 3 networking

- Automation and configuration management tools - Salt, Ansible, etc.

- Managing distributed storage systems

Our offering 

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We’ve got the basics covered (and then some)! 30 days of paid vacation every year and extra compensation on top of a parental pay lift.  

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Your wellbeing matters. We have an attractive pension and insurance scheme with full health care coverage should you need it. 

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A safe space to grow and up-skill with the freedom to try new things in autonomous teams. Our learning culture puts you in the driver’s seat of your own development, while always making sure you feel supported with regular knowledge-sharing sessions, technical training, mentorship opportunities and peer-to-peer networks. 

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An innovative environment with Hack Days once a year. This week-long initiative allows you to think outside the box and deliver creative, technical solutions that (more often than not) go on to be implemented, either in our product or our ways of working.

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Entertainment is what we love, and entertainment is what we do. So, unlimited access to Viaplay seems only fair for you to get to know the product - including live sports & pay per view events, new release movie rentals, linear channels and more. 

Hit play today 

If this feels like your kind of challenge, make sure you apply by attaching your CV here - you may also want to add your LinkedIn profile. Please don’t send us your application via email because we won’t be able to accept it. We do, however, welcome any questions you may have about this particular position. 


Want to learn more about who we are and what we do? Check out our careers page (https://careers.viaplaygroup.com/) or follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lifeatviaplaygroup/)! We’re only ever a few clicks away.