Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner, Solna

Would you as Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner like to be part of PostNord, the progressive leader of logistics in the Nordics? Would you like to work in an international environment in an inclusive team? We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner who can spearhead the development of our cloud-based container platform, if it´s you, apply now!

Join us
The team consists of a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner and DevOps engineers.

As Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner you will be the formal Platform Owner. We use Jira and Confluence for planning and documentation. Bitbucket, Tekton, ArgoCD, Jenkins and SonarQube are other tools in use. The team is distributed across Sweden, Germany and India, thus you will be part of an open and including team.

Job duties

As Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner you will have the technical responsibility for PostNord’s OpenShift platform and the services associated with it, including CI/CD, e.g., ensuring high availability and security. Your overall objective is to improve quality, time to market, reliability, availability, maintainability, security, and scalability of the system.

Your responsibilities and road to growth, as Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner:

- Act as the technical lead for the IT product
- Act as Platform Owner for OpenShift Platform
- Overall responsible for technical aspects of the IT product, its implementation, and the operation of the components within the defined IT product.
- Senior hands-on developer, capable of taking day-to-day technical, software engineering and system architecture decisions.
- Responsible for keeping the software/system up to date according to applicable principles and guidelines.
- Monitor, analyze and follow-up on technical debt. Creates enabler features and enabler stories to secure that technical debt and lifecycle management are handled as part of prioritization.
- Responsible for that the IT product development is aligned with the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery strategy.
- Mentor the team in specific technologies, design patterns, languages, frameworks, guidelines and principles.

We are looking for you who have
We believe that you are a person that is analytical and who can easily get acquainted with and learn new systems. Your way of working is inclusive, structured and responsible. You need to be able to handle stressful situations and prioritize job tasks independently. You are communicative and easy to collaborate with and are unpretentious in your way of creating and nurturing long-term relationships. As Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner you will lead yourself and the team.

To enjoy the role as Tech Lead & OpenShift Platform Owner we believe that you have:

- Deep understanding of containerization and container orchestration technologies
- Understanding of general principles of cloud platforms.
- Good understanding of Linux.
- Fluency in at least one scripting/code language such as Ruby, Shell, Python, or Groovy.
- Experience with code repositories (Git), continuous integration tools, CI principles and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Tekton or other)
- Good understanding of infrastructure as code, (e.g., using Terraform/Helm charts etc.)
- Experience with OpenShift alternatively Plain Kubernetes architecture
- Experience in taking system architectural and software design decisions, modelling and implementing these.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Academic degree in IT or equivalent knowledge and skills acquired through work experience and continuing professional education.

The following competences and experience are meritorious

- Experience working in distributed development teams, preferably offshore or nearshore
- Message queues and streaming, AMQ/Fuse, or equivalent, and Kafka
- Understanding of API gateways
- Cloud based infrastructure and development Azure, or AWS
- Used to work in a DevOps model. Agile methodologies like SAFe or Scrum
- OpenShift & Docker architecture, on infrastructure and platform level. CI/CD principles, architecture, and operations. OpenShift administration, managing and orchestrating Pods.
- Good knowledge in developing IT products with focus on security, scalability, reliability, and availability.

We offer you
- Great development opportunities and you will be able to certification and training in relevant technology like Microsoft Azure.
- Drive technology modernization and transformation working with implementing new and modern technology stack.
- Work in a Nordic and hybrid environment.
- Wellness allowance & access to the office´s gym centre.
- Employee benefits through PostNord´s own personnel foundation https://www.postnordplus.com/.
- Great insurance and occupational pension conditions
- Employment according to a collective agreement. 

We make everyday life easier

PostNord is the leading supplier of communication and logistics solutions to, from, and within the Nordic region. We ensure the provision of a postal service to households and businesses in Sweden and Denmark. We aim to make everyday life easier and more sustainable for everyone who lives and works in the Nordic region.

We are accountable, brave and committed, effectively leading change regardless if we lead our self or others. We emphasize teamwork, sincerity and positive relationships in the workplace. We build on our success and learn from both colleagues and mistakes. People with different backgrounds work with us. You will therefore be part of a workplace with great diversity, which contributes to better results for the business. Visit us at https://www.postnord.com/

Apply
https://www.experis.se/sv/jobb/78163985-02d6-4328-9b15-866da99c060d/techleadopenshiftplatformownertopostnord

In the process we work together with Experis. If you have any questions or concerns, you are welcome to contact recruiter johan.saginer.eriksson@se.experis.com via mail or phone +46 72 301 48 26. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. 

For union representatives, visit: https://postnord.varbi.com/center/tool/position/510360/edit/tab:1/www.postnord.com/fackliga

We are looking forward to hear from you!

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