Head of Platform Engineering - Media

Job Description
Schibsted Media consists of some of the leading Nordic newspapers and media brands like VG, Aftenposten, Svenska Dagbladet, Aftonbladet, and many more. Now, Schibsted Media starts its journey as a new, independent company, and our ambition is to become the leading media destination in Nordics.

Schibsted is already at the forefront of technological development. Schibsted Media will continue to develop, strengthen authentic journalism and tailor make media content for our users. Everyone who works at Schibsted Media is a part of this bigger mission; reaching and empowering millions of people in their daily lives through offerings with superior relevance and authenticity.

Join us in creating the media group of tomorrow.

Platform engineering is a team responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of tools and services to help our development teams successfully deploy and operate their products. Your organisation is a key contributor in providing developer tooling that developers use and love. You will work in close collaboration with development teams across all of our newspapers like VG and Aftenposten in Norway and Aftonbladet, SvD and Omni in Sweden to make sure the solutions your team provides are meeting their expectations.

The infrastructure is based on AWS services. We use Docker as containers and EKS/Convox for container orchestration.

What will you do in this role?

• You will manage a team responsible for the following domains:
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools
• Containers and Runtime based on Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) and Convox (ECS)
• Provisioning capabilities and cloud accounts for AWS and other cloud services
• FinOps to optimise and monitor costs.

You will be responsible for staying in sync with other departments in Schibsted Media in order to provide them with capabilities that they need. You will also be responsible for setting the overall direction of infrastructure in Schibsted Media.

Your organisation will both support, drive and finalise the company split of your respective services from the remaining Schibsted organisation during the temporary service agreement period - to the new Schibsted Media setup. All the while building, fine tuning and managing your teams in delivering excellent services to the whole of Schibsted Media.

Who you are:

• Experience with leading and building software development or infrastructure teams
• Proven leadership skills and ability to motivate your team members.
• Experience with developing infrastructure based on cloud, containers and automation, both from product and engineering perspective
• Collaborative, pragmatic and service minded approach with the focus on delivering
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a larger organisation
• Basic understanding of Linux/Unix systems
• Good understanding of AWS and its services
• Good understanding of CI/CD practices, workflows and artifact management
• Good understanding of containerization technologies and container orchestration
• Good understanding of system metrics and monitoring
• Good understanding of networking, databases and storage
• Good understanding of cloud pricing models, billing mechanisms, and cost allocation methodologies.
• Good understanding of cloud account provisioning and designing the account organisation structure in different cloud providers

Work with great people
Anniken Ore Larssen

Product Manager

"At Schibsted you meet people who cheer each other on, creating great products facing millions of consumers every day."

Egil Martinsson

Senior Data Scientist

"Schibsted is an awesome place to work with Machine Learning at scale. We really try to foster a culture of high ambition & lots of fun"

Joanna Eriksson

Senior Data Engineer

"Schibsted is a great workplace with amazing people, interesting technical challenges, and a constant strive to always be better."

Maria Slanova

Machine learning Engineer

"Working at Schibsted provides you with the opportunity to collaborate with skilled individuals coming from diverse backgrounds, empowering you to bring innovative ideas to life."

Joanna Eriksson

Senior Data Engineer

"Schibsted är en arbetsplats med fantastiska människor, intressanta tekniska utmaningar och det finns en ständig strävan efter att alltid bli bättre."

Egil Martinsson

Senior Data Scientist

"Det är en fantastisk arbetsplats för den som vill jobba storskaligt med machine learning"

Anniken Ore Larssen

Product Manager

"У Шибстеді усі підбадьорюють та підтримують одне одного, створюють неймовірні продукти для мільйонів споживачів кожного дня"

Egil Martinsson

Senior Data Scientist

"Шибстед це виняткове місце для масштабної роботи з Machine Learning. Ми формуємо культуру великі амбіції & забави"

Joanna Eriksson

Data Engineer

"Шибстед - це чудове місце для роботи, з неймовірними людьми, цікавими технічними викликами та постійним прагненням до розвитку"

Einar Otto Stangvik

Redaksjonell utvikler

"I VG har jeg fått jobbe variert, med betydningsfulle saker og interessante utfordringer, men best av alt har vært menneskene: Her er kolleger jeg virkelig har blitt glad i."

Vjollca Moazzem

Markedskonsulent

"Det som gjør det gøy å jobbe i VG er alle de kreative og inspirerende kollegene. Har man en god ide er terskelen lav for å spille inn, og man får rom for å teste ut gode ideer."

Knut Arne Hansen

Journalist

"Det beste med VG er at jeg er omgitt av veldig gode kolleger. Vi utfordrer hverandre hver dag. Og vi jobber mot samme mål - å være best og raskest."

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Nivette Dawod

Reporter, Aftonbladet

"Det bästa med att jobba på Aftonbladet är att ingen idé är för knasig eller för liten. Kreativiteten flödar. Dessutom är kollegorna fantastiska!"

Kristoffer Bergström

Reporter och krönikör, Sportbladet

"Förut tittade jag på sport. Sedan började jag jobba med Sveriges skarpaste journalister. Nu förstår jag sport."

Gustaf Tronarp

Reporter, Aftonbladet

"På Aftonbladet jobbar de bästa journalisterna. De råkar också vara väldigt varma, roliga och ibland lite småtokiga människor. Det är en fantastisk kombination."

Staffan Lindberg

Utrikesjournalist, Aftonbladet

"Som utrikesjournalist på Aftonbladet har jag hela världen som min arbetsplats. Jag kan inte tänka mig ett mer spännande och meningsfullt jobb."

Ebba Thorneus

Reporter, Aftonbladet

"Bland det bästa med Aftonbladet är lagandan. Alla är alltid beredda att hjälpa till - i stort som smått."

Great Place to Work

• Learn and develop within Learning Lab
• Karriärmöjligheter inom Schibstedfamiljen
• Var del av en mångfaldig, inkluderande arbetsplats
• Personlig utveckling och lärande inom Learning Lab
• Work with products that matter in peoples lives
• We embrace diversity
• Career opportunities within the Schibsted family
• Empowering body and mind with Schibsted Life
• 6000 fantastic colleagues in over 4 countries
• Personlig utvikling og læring i Learning Lab
• Jobba med välkända produkter och tjänster
• Schibsted Life erbjuder fysisk och mental träning
• 6000 fantastiska kollegor i fyra länder
• Bli del av mangfoldig, inkluderende arbeidsplass
• Karrieremuligheter i Schibstedfamilien
• Mer enn 4500 fantastiske kollegaer i 4 land
• Styrke kropp og sinn med Schibsted Life
• Jobb med anerkjente produkter og tjenester
• Fremoverlent arbeidsmiljø, hos VG skjer ting raskt
• Individuelle utviklingsmuligheter i VG & Schibsted
• Massasjetilbud og bedriftshelsetjeneste
• Konkurransedyktige betingelser
• Norges mest innovative mediebedrift
• Kontorlokaler i Akersgata 55, sentralt i Oslo
• Uformelt miljø
• Attraktive og gode medarbeidertilbud