职位 ID: 279071

发布日期: 17/02/2025

About this work area
We are on a Digital transformation journey at the iconic IKEA. Do you want to contribute to and influence our future?

We are now in need of a passionate and innovative platform engineer who loves working in an agile environment. You will get the opportunity to research, develop, build and optimize our open-source Observability platform based on the Grafana stack ensuring automation and top-class availability. Our Observability platform is used by and supports our product and platform development teams in IKEA to ensure they have the required insight to optimize their platforms and applications.

Our team is at the heart of Operational Intelligence supporting every engineering team at IKEA. The team builds the Observability solution for operational metrics, centralized logging, and distributed tracing for every team at IKEA across multiple global data centers, private and public cloud (GCP, Azure, Alicloud) and all our global stores.
Your responsibilities
When you join us, you will be part of a visionary team managing the architecture, design, and operation of our future at IKEA within the Observability area.

• Together with the team, you will be responsible for the architecture and continued development of our Observability platform offering. Following market trends to explore, research and ensure we always stay on top to create impact and make a difference to all teams at IKEA.
• As a Platform Engineer and SRE expert, you will collaborate with our operations team and our colleagues in Operational Intelligence on stability and operations for our Observability solution features for complex project requests.
• Use Terraform, Argo CD, Github Actions, and other cloud automation tools to create fully automated CI/CD pipelines with product APIs for integration in our CI/CD tool chain both on-prem, private and public cloud.
• Promote a Product mindset.
• Contribute to improvements in ways of working, encouraging good practices to meet consumer expectations on Product or Service delivery.
• Support design specifications and ensure that Products or Services are aligned, working closely together with other functions to ensure end-to-end business delivery.

If you are looking for a possibility to grow, influence our transition, and work in an entrepreneurial and innovative environment, this is your chance.
Qualifications

We believe you are a passionate engineer in systems and/or software engineering with proficiency in at least one programming language.
You understand the importance of a stable and automated service in an operational context for applications end-to-end observability.
You are inquisitive, innovative, and continuously strive to learn new technologies and optimizations of ways of working at the same time as you share your learnings with your colleagues.

What you Bring

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience as a system or software engineer with similar level of experience in the specific tech stack for the area
• Minimum 3 years of experience of working in agile/iterative software development teams with a DevOps working setup and with an emphasis on self-organisation and delivery to agreed commitments.
• Experience with the Grafana stack with Loki, Tempo & Mimir.
• Great understanding of compute, network, and storage infrastructures in cloud environments
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters and deploying applications using Helm, Kustomize, Tanka
• Hands-on & practical experience of monitoring and observability related to Cloud Platforms (GCP and/or Alicloud), containerized deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical skills, experience in debugging, code optimization, test
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Experience in the following is an advantage:
• Experienced in SRE ways of working
• Availability and Capacity management in hybrid deployments
• Good coding skills and experience with any of Python, Go TypeScript/JavaScript is required.
• Good understanding of web technologies like HTTP, DNS, PKI, SSL, CDN, WAF
• Work planning, tracking and documentation using primarily Markdown, Jira/Confluence, and GitHub.
• A big plus is a verifiable code contribution to open-source projects.
• Open-Telemetry instrumentation insight
• Preferred: Knowledge of IKEA Brand, culture, values and way of working

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.
Together as a team
We’re a small team working closely with our consumers and colleagues. We are quite autonomous, self-organizing and self-sufficient in many ways, which means part of our daily work is to define how we get things done together. We are based in Malmö, Helsingborg, Amsterdam and Dortmund.

We are passionate about building easy-to-consume capabilities supporting the need for high-quality data insight in the operational process at IKEA. Giving business and operations team support and insight into the availability and performance of critical business applications and infrastructure enables successful delivery of service to our customers. Our close collaborations with development teams enable us to continuously explore new technologies and opportunities.

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.
Questions and support? Let's connect!
The role is based in Sweden (Malmö/Helsingborg) and you will report to Niclas Nilsson
For more information about the role, reach out to hiring manager at niclas.nilsson@ingka.ikea.com

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to tech recruiter Linn Hallberg at linn.hallberg@ingka.ikea.com

We will be interviewing continuously and are looking forward to hearing from you!
Internal Title: Sr Systems Engineer

In this recruitment there is no relocation support provided by IKEA, hence we're looking for people already living in the mentioned location

PLEASE NOTE
Due to GDPR we can't review any applications coming to us in other ways than through our recruitment program.

We are looking forward to receiving your application!