Position: Lead DevOps Engineer for IKEA
Company: Envion Software
Experience required: 2y
Category: DevOps
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Requirements
— A relentless passion and vision for meeting the customer promise.
— Motivating engineers to be outcome focused and innovate/learn to solve business problems.
— Passionate about vision values - values like togetherness, simplicity and lead by example are all a natural part of your everyday working life at IKEA.
— Great willpower and the ability to create enthusiasm around you, to dare challenge conventions and make mistakes.
— 2+ years’ experience as an engineering manager with a track record of building teams at pace and still creating happy and focused teams.
— Have learnt the lessons and can inspire others to why the following practices are important to move towards: Version control of every component / Deployment automation / Continuous integration / Trunk-based development / Test automation / Test data management / Shift left on security / Loosely coupled architecture (e.g. domain driven design, microservices, API 1st) / Empowered Teams / Monitoring / Proactive notifications.
— To be resilient and empathetic in the face of the challenge of doing open heart surgery on the IKEA business – transforming our current landscape into something for the next evolution of IKEA.
— To enjoy building teams with a DevOps mentality to develop new, scalable, enterprise technology, able to run our global operations 24/7.

Responsibilities
— Build and maintain a robust and scalable environment
— Configuring and supporting continuous integration / deployment processes
— Conducting planned disaster recovery activities
— Support for the monitoring and incident handling system

We offer
— On-work training and possibility for professional growth
— Flexible working hours
— 20 paid vacation days
— English lessons
— Compensation is negotiable
— Opportunity to work for one of a major US provider

About the client
We have set out to change everything (almost!) and we need to change now! We are transforming a global iconic brand which in itself is breath-taking, and within Order Management we are creating the digital equivalent of flat packages.

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.

The scope of the consultant services is to assist IKEA in building and running the technology that underpins their global business across 377 stores, 40+ fulfilment centres, Click and Collect solutions, Final mile delivery and services like installation in customers’ homes. Create a new IKEA, by building the capability to dynamically flex fulfilment across all our network, buildings, transport and partners - responding to situations like COVID-19 pandemic in near real time to meet our customers' needs and minimizing impact on the planet.

Transform the current landscape into a modern technology stack which will enable us to test and learn quickly to meet our customers' demands and provide a highly available, resilient and secure service.

We are big believers in enabling our leaders to act with autonomy and as such you would lead on the technical decisions of how you want to build and implement your products.