Cloud Platform Engineer - Digital Platforms - Lund

Let's create the future together.

At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?

What’s in it for you?

In the Digital team, we build products that are both consumer-facing and internal systems. We work on products and platforms such as Volvo On Call, Connected Car Cloud Platform, Service Booking, Connected Safety, Customer Care Chat, Volvo ID, over-the-air updates, car connectivity, and APIs for building new innovative services.

The teams are located in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Lund, Sweden, and we also have teams in the US, India and in China. Many of the people you will be working with have experience from start-ups and global tech companies such as Spotify, Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, Tradera, Klarna and King.

We are now looking for another senior Cloud Platform engineer for the Cloud Foundation team. You will be working with a group of skilled people currently engaged in providing a Cloud Platform for agile product development teams to use. 
 

What you’ll do

You will help us to improve our cloud platform which is built using Terraform, Kubernetes and its ecosystem. You will provide new tools and services to our customers, which are the development teams. You will also support, on-board and provide your expertise to the engineers across the organization that are using our platform. We strive to automate as much as possible and you will take part in the development of our automation. We also review the state of the security within our platform on a regular basis.
 

You and your skills
We are looking for an additional experienced Cloud Platform Engineer, who has previous experience with the cloud platform tool-chain we are using; Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS or Azure. You are comfortable working with Linux systems, databases, networking and containers. Programming experience is beneficial, but not required.
You are open-minded, a quick learner and a team player.
 

Technical skills & platforms we use are:
Containers and orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
Cloud: AWS, Aliyun, Azure
Service mesh: Istio
Databases: Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
Message brokers: Kafka, AcrtiveMQ, MQTT
Tools: Terraform, Helm, Harbor
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub/Azure Devops, Spinnaker, ArgoCD
Scripting and languages: Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible
Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack, Splunk, Jaeger, Sentry
Security: Vault, Falco, Trivy
Development methodology principles: SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, Lean
 

How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position please contact the Product Manager simon.magnusson@volvocars.com or Line Manager alexandra.kindgren@volvocars.com . For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter, Henrik.jansson.3@volvocars.com. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted. Last application date – 18th of December 2020.

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.