Systems Engineer, Group Digital

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
Hello! I´m David and work as Engineering Manager for the Storage and Data Protection team. I´m looking for you that have a great passion in technology, understanding the consumer and working with optimizing enterprise infrastructure, or what we call a Systems Engineer. Do you want to be a part of a fantastic global team with core focus of storage and data protection? Then continue to read 😊
IKEA is in a great transformation journey that will enable the new Digital IKEA! At Storage and data protection team we are working with the core IT infrastructure that support IKEA services and co-worker with state-of-the-art storage and data protection solutions. We operate on a global basis throughout 5 datacenters and many distributed sites.


WHO YOU ARE
You need to have several years of experience within enterprise storage and data protection technology. You have experience of taking business requirement from concept to a complete product for the consumers.
We would love if you had previous experience of working within an agile organization and team. It´s also desirable that you have experience in working within a hybrid/private cloud environment.
We value the IKEA values! In this role we trust that you have a great drive to fulfill our mission statement, can inspire other and take lead of yours and the team’s development. Since this is a global team with coworkers in USA, Sweden, India and China and great communication skills is essential and fluently in English.
We see that you have deep knowledge in the following areas
• Storage connectivity and management (Broadcom)
• Storage and data protection technology such as block, file, object storage and data protection software and hardware
• Knowledge of virtualized storage platforms
• Great knowledge in automation and management tools
We think you:
• Having good knowledge in financials systems, calculations & chargeback
• Have experience of procurements and contract review
• Are humble, transparent and have a constant desire to learn, improve and enable others to grow in your area of expertise.
• See the bigger picture, understand the deliveries from a consumer’s perspective, understanding value creation!


YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
You will be working physically and/or virtually in fully empowered and agile teams. Together with the Service Manager, Engineering Managers and Senior System Engineer you will create, maintain, and promote the roadmap, ensure optimized service offering based on the latest technologies and drive a competitive advantage for our consumers.
• Be the technical resource in your area of responsibility and support current and future business within Digital IKEA.
• Deliver infrastructure through automation and with self-service capabilities for efficiency, availability, and usability.
• Do continuous improvements and innovation within this area.
• Participate in the implementation of new technologies and infrastructure projects.
• Apply and adhere to the digital engineering best practices with an agile development approach.


TOGETHER AS A TEAM
We are a versatile technical team with a lot of experience, located over the whole globe within the area of storage and data protection. We provide resilient storage and data protection solutions for customer, retail, warehouses and coworkers. The team is working close with the other team in the service area such as compute, facility, and automation team.
We are passionate about develop and maintain core infrastructure capabilities to the many people by finding smarter, more resilient and automated ways of working.
We value team players who is used to work in agile and pragmatic way, We are motivated by leading your own development and inspired by succeeding as a team.
The role is based in Helsingborg or Älmhult, Sweden.
Please note that there are preferred candidates for the position.