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  • Bangalore, India
  • IT & Digital Solutions
  • Full time

Job Description

  • Job ID: 237515

  • Date posted: 25/01/2025

    • Why we will love you
    We are on a Digital transformation journey at the iconic IKEA. Our Observability team is in charge of developing solutions that focus on supporting application developers and engineers that run infrastructure and services supporting our applications. We are now in need for a passionate and innovative software engineer who loves working in an agile environment. You will get the opportunity to influence and expand our OpenSource Observability solutions based on the Grafana stack by developing new automations and integrations fostering our inner source and opensource culture.

    Our team is at the heart of Operational Intelligence supporting every engineering team at IKEA. The team builds the Observability solution for operational metrics, centralized logging, and distributed tracing for every team at IKEA across multiple global data centers, private and public cloud (GCP, Azure, Alicloud), and many other smaller regions.

    REQUIREMENTS

    We believe you are a passionate software engineer with 5+ years of experience in software engineering with proficiency in one or multiple programming languages.
    You understand the importance of a stable and automated service in an operational context for applications end to end observability. OpenSource experience and skills is a must. Experience with Observability management products and cloud management at scale is beneficial.

    Formal qualifications:
    • Minimum 5 years of professional experience as software engineer with similar level of experience in the specific tech stack for the area
    • Minimum 3 years of experience of working in agile/iterative software development teams with a DevOps working setup and with an emphasis on self-organisation and delivery to agreed commitments.
    • Excellent coding skills and experience with Python or Golang is a must.
    • Development of integration components in cloud native environments
    • Hands-on experience with Cloud native automation technologies
    • Hands-on expertise in Terraform, Github Actions, Argo CD, GitLab CI, Jenkins to create fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
    • Strong analytical skills, experience in debugging, code optimization and test
    • Excellent written and verbal English communication skill
    • Preferred: Knowledge of IKEA Brand, culture, values and way of working


    Work experience / hands-on skills in the following areas will be an advantage:
    • Verifiable code contribution to opensource projects with git repo examples
    • Work planning, tracking and documentation using primarily Jira/Confluence and GitHub.
    • Great understanding of compute, network, and storage infrastructures in cloud environments
    Your responsibilities
    When you join us, you will be part of a visionary team managing the architecture, design, and operation of our future at IKEA within the Observability area.

    • Together with the team, you will be responsible for the architecture and continued development of our observability offerings. Following market trends to explore, research and ensure we always stay on top to create impact and make a difference to all teams at IKEA.
    • As an OpenSource Software engineer develop our Observability solution features for complex project requests.
    • Promote OpenSource and Product mindset, driving both open and inner sourcing activities.
    • Use Terraform, Ansible and Cloud Build and other cloud automation tools to create fully automated CI/CD pipelines with product APIs for integration in our CI/CD tool chain both on-prem, private and public cloud.
    • Contribute to improvements in ways of working, encouraging good practices to meet consumer expectations on Product or Service delivery.
    • Support design specifications and ensure that Products or Services are aligned, working closely together with other functions to ensure end-to-end business delivery.

    If you look for a possibility to grow, influence our transition, work in an entrepreneurial and innovative environment, this is your chance.
    Together as a team
    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.




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