DevOps Cloud Engineer

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 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.

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 programming or scripting languages like Python, Bash, Java, Kotlin, Rust, or 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.