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DevOps Engineer

Tampere,
Finland
Closing date: 20 December 2024

Saab Sensor Technology Center in Tampere is part of Surveillance organization unit at Saab. The R&D teams are developing extremely complex and innovative electronic warfare systems, motivated by a clear target: to keep people safe. 

To support our development functions, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team in maintaining and improving our product development environment in Finland. 

Your role

In this role, you will be designing, implementing and maintaining DevOps solutions for our development environment. The environment includes functions for release management, build automation, source code and artefact management as well as integrations towards projects, test management and production. You will work closely with SW and test development teams in our local business units, as well as collaborate globally with DevOps engineers and corporate IT functions located in other countries. The position requires working mainly on site.

The main tasks are:

  • Participate in implementing improvements and maintaining the local development environment
  • Work closely with project management and system/software/test architects and teams to ensure alignment to project needs
  • Ensure our service implementations match with relevant standards and regulations
  • Proactively seek opportunities to implement improvements in the development process and deployment pipeline
  • Understand where automation can be applied to the development process and implement these solutions to improve the overall efficiency and quality

This role may require some travelling, mainly occasional short visits to Sweden.

Your profile

Our ideal candidate has a solid background from managing on-premises development environments. We are looking for a proactive and hands-on person with a vision how to apply industry best practices into daily operations.

Required skills:

  • In minimum, bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • In minimum, three years of relevant work experience
  • Scripting skills with at least one programming language (Python, Bash, Ruby etc.)
  • Experience with common DevOps tools (GitLab, Artifactory, build systems)
  • Hands-on experience in setting up automation pipelines for software development
  • Solid communication skills in English and Finnish, verbal and written

Additional useful know-how:

  • Experience on Kubernetes
  • Knowledge of agile SW development practices
  • Understanding of software licensing and open-source software intake

In this job, some of your tasks have a connection to defense secrecy. Therefore, a drug test and approved security clearance in accordance with the Finnish Security Clearance act 726/2014 is required for the selected applicant.

What you will be part of

Our unit offers a wide range of interesting opportunities to grow and challenge yourself within the exciting field of Electronic Warfare. In addition to interesting projects and learning by doing, Saab offers various trainings and learning paths to help you build your competence and career. 

Your work place will be at Saab Sensor Technology Center in Tampere downtown in newly renovated premises. 

On top of joining a team of highly talented professionals and fun people, we offer you competitive benefit package, including full lunch benefit, exercise & culture benefit, gym facilities, transport related options, and many more. We also value a good work-life balance and offer our employees flexible working hours.

We are also flexible about the start date, let us know when you would be available to start!

Would you like to know more about the Saab-life and our culture?
Read about Saab Careers.

Interested?

Take your chance to build your future career at Saab by submitting your CV and application letter via Saab Careers already now! Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.

If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal – to help protect people.