Linux System Engineer

Company Description
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.


Job Description
Are you ready to operate our Linux environment in six Datacenters, with one thousand systems storing 7 million gigabyte in Sweden, Germany & the Netherlands?

As our Linux Engineer you will come to work in an international team, operating mainly our Red Hat on premise environment. Our strategy is “cloud first”, however, due to local legislation much of our data must be stored on-premise. Therefore, securely operating our own Datacentres in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands is crucial for us. We are at the beginning of a transition towards a software defined data center; operating Linux to the cloud and of fully automating our storage solutions. A journey we would like you to actively be part of!

You can imagine a secure and stable operations is crucial being a utility company. You can play a key role in providing this stable, secure and solid operations across the whole scope of our energy operations in Europe.

You and your colleagues will be responsible for all infrastructure on-premise operations, and you will co-assist in supporting Linux in the Cloud. At the moment we are in the build up phase of a new datacenter, building a new environment from scratch. You and your colleagues will be working on:
Datacenter operations for all Linux servers in our six Datacenters and their satellites across Europe
Server virtualisation (VMWare Solutions)
Physical server solutions
Hardware- and operating system evaluation
Design and deploy new services

Here your main responsibilities will be to:

Operate the overall Linux infrastructure for the whole Vattenfall group from an infrastructure operations perspective
Act as technical expert related to Linux architecture and solutions towards other IT departments
Design and improvement of the current infrastructure landscape as well as adjusting it to our standards and designs (both on-premise and cloud)
Participate in international IT projects bringing in your Linux expertise
Participate in on-call service
Drive automation (Ansible scripting)



Qualifications
Our ideal candidate
Will you help us becoming fossil free in one generation? Are you ready to contribute to that goal by creating a stable and secure infrastructure? And do you have experience with Linux Operating Systems and are you comfortable speaking English? Then please apply!
Furthermore, ideally you bring some of the below:
Some knowledge in Spark Solaris or AIX and x86 Linux operating systems and hardware
Some knowledge in ITIL and IT security
Some knowledge of Cloud concepts (preferable Azure)
Some understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
Some experience in Bash scripting or/and Perl scripting

You like to challenge yourself and others on how to improve, you are open to suggestions from others, but can also give suggestions yourself. This job requires some limited international traveling. You will need to be able to work independently in an international team which meets more virtually than physically.
For this position we are only considering candidate already living in one of the below mentioned location we operate in.

Location:
You can choose to be based in Forsmark (Sweden) or Katowice and Gliwice (Poland). Limited travelling between these locations will be part of the job, but most of the cooperation will be done virtual.


Additional Information
You will join a great team, using latest technology and aiming to keep your knowledge up to date
We offer both internal and external trainings including certifications
We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field.
You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues
A professional environment where your experience, knowledge and attitude will bring us one step further and the opportunity for you to grow further.
A central office location with easy access by public transport
Furthermore, a healthy work-life balance (smart working) and time to develop your profession
At Vattenfall you get the opportunity to work for a clean energy company that aims for creating fossil free energy within one generation.
And last but not least; International and multi-cultural work environment with energetic, motivated colleagues that like to have fun as well!


More Information
Please apply directly through our website with your English CV and cover letter., For further questions regarding the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Recruiter Folmer Koper on folmer1.koper@vattenfall.com.