Operational System Architect - Operations and 3rd party

Verisure Innovation in Malmö is Sweden’s award-winning innovation center for the connected & protected smart-home market. We create services and IoT products for smarter, safer and more secure homes, serving customers throughout Northern Europe. We are now looking for our next IT System Architect, are you ready for your next challenge? 

About the role 

As an IT System Architect at Verisure you will hold an important role in actively contributing to the technical work and deliveries as well as defining the mid-term plan and strategy and align it with the company strategy. You will also perform discovery and analysis for new initiatives, gathering technical requirements prior to implementation. In this role you will be the system architect for an operations team, focusing on operations and 3rd party, and work very close to some of the development teams in our departments. The team is responsible for managing operational tasks related to lifecycle, growth and scaling for 50 services on around 300+ servers, across different date centers, cloud and other environments. You will represent the team in different forums to find the best solutions to our company’s challenges. Beside being the architect of the team we expect this role to in a unprestigious way contribute to the day-to-day technical work of the team.

Some of the projects the team is working on right now: 
* Lifecycle Operational activities (automation, optimisation, patch management, upgrades, redundancy improvements, vulnerability remediation and more) 
* Microservice release and devops transformation support 
* 3rd party service integration

What you bring 

You are a humble, unprestigious and curious person who thrives in a complex role where you get to have a helicopter view of everything regarding your department. We believe you are a structured person and apply agile methodologies to your work. You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. 

You also have: 
* Proven experience as a System Architect or Senior System engineering (SRE)
* Proficient in Linux
* Experience in Kubernetes and Ansible. 
* Deep understanding of infrastructure systems and willingness to learn new technologies, including 3rd party software 

* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess complex IT systems and propose effective solutions 
* You are fluent in English, both written and spoken 

It’s merited if you have experience in:  
* Monitoring tools: Grafana, nagios, grafana, prometheis
* Cloud, virtualisation and hardware: Azure, AWS, Terraform, vSpeher, Docker
* Python coding and scripting
* Admin tools: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Git..

About Verisure 

Verisure is a global

leading provider of professionally monitored security solutions. We are an international company with a start-up mindset, fast, agile, and lean, high-performance and value driven. We protect million of customers in 17 countries. Our business model integrates product development, design and sales with installation, outstanding service and a 24/7 professional monitoring solution. We protect people from intrusion, fire, and flood - and we save lives. 

Over the past years, Verisure has experienced an exceptional and resilient financial performance with a very long track record of double-digit growth - thanks to continuous drive for Innovation, our very sophisticated Go-To-Market approach and replicable business model for expansion into new countries. We are now supporting the business’ next phase of growth with a robust business plan for value creation. Verisure’s success depends on its people, and we invest in them every day. Working with Verisure is being part of an industry leading world-class company that has a strong entrepreneurial spirit.