Systems Engineer, Group Digital

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
We are looking for a passionate Systems Engineer who strives for engineering excellence and excels in constantly changing environments. You are excited about systems architecture, modern technologies (PaaS offerings & cloud native technologies), innovative ways of working (cross-functional, autonomous, agile) and you want to take part in shaping the future of IKEA!
As a person you have a proven ability to develop high quality digital services using and applying good practices. You have a curious nature, and actively acquire new knowledge and skills, using them to champion new methods and processes to improve performance. On the same side you are happy to share your knowledge and help everyone around you to grow as individual engineers and strong engineering teams.
You will become part of the Cloud Technologies Container team and contribute to the growth of the area. We are on a journey to assist our consumers by providing container solutions that meets their needs both on-prem as well as on public cloud enabling them to gain speed, reliability, scalability and security in their application deliveries.
The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day to day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more regarding our values and life at IKEA on our website www.ikea.com or just watch this video: https://bit.ly/ikea-what-if
We believe a healthy and flexible life balance is important, so together we will strive to create a work environment where you feel in control of your life balance, can be yourself, grow and excel in both your personal and professional life.
At IKEA, we welcome all dimensions of diversity. A diverse and inclusive workplace is good for our co-workers, for our customers and for our business. Working with differences helps us grow both as individuals and as an organization. ... Simply put, we believe the uniqueness of every individual makes IKEA better!
To succeed as Systems Engineer you will ideally have experience in one or more of the following areas:
Good knowledge and competence in Linux, Kubernetes and container technologies
Good knowledge and experience of GCP services & offerings
Experience with Cloud- and Data Center architecture and services to support on-prem / hybrid
Good knowledge in traditional infrastructure like networking, storage and compute
Experience with architecture concepts such as microservices, event driven architecture and cloud native technologies
Good knowledge in coding (you would know one or two programming languages) and common development concepts such as Git, CI/CD)

The System Engineer we are looking for should have:
High attention to detail in everything you do
Passion for operational excellence and an interest in development processes
Passion for technology and willing to learn and to share
Communication skills needed in an “all-remote” working environment
A fair share of common sense

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Systems Engineer within Cloud Technologies Containers you will be a part of the team responsible for designing and delivering well designed, secure and scalable cloud solutions to support consumers across IKEA. You will be a vital part of developing our solutions of tomorrow where we modernize applications shifting to on-prem and public cloud or optimize existing implementations within the container platform to support the business demands in an even better way.
You will be surrounded by skilled & experienced engineers and together you will work to implement modern engineering principles, proper tooling and increase automation to enable the specified business outcomes and create a strong digital foundation for IKEAs Digital products and business.
In this role you will report to Engineering Manager who is Accountable for Team Roadmap and Delivery Team of Cloud Technologies Containers.
Your office location will be in south of Sweden (Helsingborg or Älmhult)
Among many tasks you will
Be part of a small, dedicated, SRE team developing and running our container platform(s)
Develop and automate changes to be rolled out in our GitOps workflow, using tools like ArgoCD & Ansible
Continuously monitor and improve our environments using tools like Prometheus, Grafana and Slack-bots
Support and guide development-teams in container/k8s technologies
Be part of/lead troubleshooting sessions with other infrastructure teams to resolve critical incidents
Be prepared to dig deep into our technology stack and have a lot of fun on the way

ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
Group Digital set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast-moving environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services using new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.
The Service Area Core Digital Infrastructure has co-workers in Sweden (Helsingborg, Malmö and Älmhult), Germany (Dortmund and Diedenbergen), USA (Philadelphia) and China (Shanghai).
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
If you have any questions about the role, please reach out to Alvaro Vaquero - Engineering Manager Cloud Technologies Container alvaro.vaquero@ingka.ikea.com
Please also note that we do only handle applications in English.