DevOps Cloud Engineer - Distribution Innovation

Job Description
We seek a skilled and proactive DevOps Platform Engineer to join our Foundation Platform Team. This team is responsible for maintaining and enhancing our AWS-based platform, which serves as the backbone for all product teams within the organization. The ideal candidate will deeply understand infrastructure such as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native operations, focusing on enabling product teams to develop, test, deploy, and operate their services efficiently.

Key Responsibilities:
Platform Maintenance & Optimization:

• Maintain and optimize our AWS-based foundational platform, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security across all environments.
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform reliability and performance through SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) best practices.
• Sound understanding of networking and network architecture

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Develop, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using Terraform, CDKTF, and similar tools.
• Collaborate with product teams to ensure their infrastructure needs are met, ‘providing IaC templates and guidance to facilitate their development processes.
• Ensure all infrastructure changes are versioned, peer-reviewed, and deployed consistently across environments.

CI/CD Pipeline Management:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable automated testing, integration, and deployment of services across multiple environments.
• Collaborate with product teams to optimize their CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability, and security.
• Implement best build, release, and deployment practices, including rollback strategies and zero-downtime deployments.

Collaboration & Support:

• Work closely with product teams to understand their needs, providing guidance and support in deploying and operating their services on the platform.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues, working to resolve them promptly.
• Conduct regular training sessions and create documentation to empower product teams to use the platform tools and services effectively.

Security & Compliance:

• Ensure all platform infrastructure and operations adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Implement security controls and monitoring to protect against vulnerabilities and threats, including automated compliance checks.
• Collaborate with the security team to conduct regular audits and implement recommendations to improve the platform security.

Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in DevOps, cloud computing, and platform engineering.
• Continuously evaluate and improve existing tools, processes, and practices to enhance platform efficiency and team productivity.
• Contribute to the evolution of the platform by suggesting and implementing innovative solutions.

Work with great people
Svein Are Grøsund

Tech Lead

"In DI you get the best of both worlds, the startup feeling with high speed and agility as well as reaping the benefits from the enterprise size and wide reach"

Ingrid Oliversen

Head of product management

"The competence and ownership in the developer environment here in DI is really inspiring. It is wonderful to be a part of and learn from."

Isak Tuene

UX Designer

"In addition to having a great tech environment, DI’s trust to its employees creates a flexible, effective and fun workday."

Roar Granevang

Developer

"I appreciate working closely with customers to create the best tools for the job. Rapid feedback and good communication is key for successful software development"

Skills & Requirements
Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role in a cloud-native environment.
• Proven experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, and VPC, among others.
• Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or similar tools.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipeline tools. Experience with GitHub Actions is a plus.

Competences:

• Proficiency in a programming or scripting languages like Python, Bash, Java, Kotlin, Rust, Golang
• Strong understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch or similar.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments, including IAM roles/policies, encryption, and network security.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Collaboration:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work closely with product teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in a collaborative, cross-functional agile environment.

Education:
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) are a plus.

Language:
The candidate must be fluent, both oral and written in Norwegian and English

We can offer you:

• Competitive terms, including great pension and insurance
• Central office locations in Oslo (Akersgata 55) with good lunch, gym in the basement and roof terrace (office days at least 3 days a week)
• A good working environment with high working standards, growth opportunities and dedicated people
• Interesting and challenging tasks, a team oriented and innovative highly competent workforce
• You will work in a growth company with lots of opportunities
• Possibilities to impact and come up with ideas