Senior DevOps Engineer

We’re looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join one of our key clients in Stockholm. The ideal consultant brings strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and modern DevOps practices.

Role Overview

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll work closely with software engineering, architecture, QA, and security teams to ensure smooth deployments, reliable systems, and scalable platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Manage, optimize, and monitor cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP depending on client).
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability across environments.
• Drive automation across provisioning, configuration, and application deployments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Elastic, Datadog, etc.
• Work with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to manage and deploy applications.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to ensure systems are secure, testable, and efficient.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Contribute to DevOps best practices, standards, and governance.

Technical Requirements

Must-Have Skills:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP (client-specific preference can be added).
• Solid hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Strong understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash, Python, or equivalent).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, Splunk).
• Good understanding of networking concepts, load balancing, DNS, VPC, security groups, etc.
• Experience with Git or equivalent version control systems.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience implementing security best practices (DevSecOps).
• Knowledge of service meshes (Istio, Linkerd).
• Experience with serverless architectures.
• Background with microservices and distributed systems.
• Certification in AWS/Azure/GCP (not mandatory but valuable).

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and collaborative mindset.
• Ability to take ownership and drive improvements end-to-end.
• Comfortable mentoring junior engineers and contributing to technical direction.