SYSTEMS ENGINEER, CORE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, PRIVATE CLOUD & DISTRIBUTED HOSTING

Job description

“At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people”.
We are now looking for a Systems Engineer who strives for engineering excellence and excels in constantly changing environments. You are passionate about cloud-based technology, and innovative ways of working (cross-functional, agile) and you want to be part of shaping the future of IKEA!

WHO YOU ARE
We believe you have several years of managing Linux OS and Hyperconverged Infrastructure experience and are willing to grow into other Infrastructure areas such as Windows, Serverless compute hosting, etc.
We believe that you have extensive knowledge in infrastructure automation including infrastructure as code and you have experience in designing and managing high availability solutions including clustering.
We value knowledge in Store, Offices and Warehouse environment (Industrial automation hosting)
We believe 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.

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
To be successful in this role, we believe you have:
• extensive knowledge and experience of being a full-stack infrastructure/technology expert having a strong background in Linux OS.
• Extensive knowledge in server management, monitoring, and dashboard creation in enterprise environment
• extensive knowledge and experience in creating innovative and fully automated infrastructure/technology platforms.
• extensive knowledge and experience of automation and scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell), common development concepts such as Git, CI/CD and working with REST APIs to enable engineers and developers to consume our services
• extensive knowledge and experience of collaboration cross-functionally with DevOps teams across the organization to architect, onboard, automate and troubleshoot infrastructure/technology
• constant desire to learn, improve and enable other to grow in your area of expertise
• 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
You will become part of Distributed Hosting team and play a key role in creating a flexible and strong digital foundation for IKEA´s digital products and business. We are on a journey to assist our consumers, shifting from a tightly connected landscape to a decoupled and flexible landscape enabling the business objectives. You will collaborate with skilled and experienced engineers that are organized in small fully empowered agile teams.
We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would work without us.
At IKEA, we welcome all dimensions of diversity. A diverse and inclusive workplace is good for our co-workers. Simply put, we believe the uniqueness of every individual makes IKEA better!

QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!

The role is based in Helsingborg or Almhult and you will report to For more information about the role, reach out to hiring managers at will.wei@ingka.ikea.com.

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to tech recruiter Usha Rao at usha.rao@ingka.com. We will be interviewing continuously and are looking forward to hearing from you!

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

We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.