Head of platform engineer

at  Skillspark AB

START03-08-2024

DURATION4-6 months
Platform engineering is a team responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of tools and services to help our development teams successfully deploy and operate their products. Your organisation is a key contributor in providing developer tooling that developers use and love. You will work in close collaboration with development teams across all of our newspapers to make sure the solutions your team provides are meeting their expectations.
The infrastructure is based on AWS services. We use Docker as containers and EKS/Convox for container orchestration.

You will manage a team responsible for the following domains:

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools
• Containers and Runtime based on Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) and Convox (ECS)
• Provisioning capabilities and cloud accounts for AWS and other cloud services
• FinOps to optimise and monitor costs.

You will be responsible for staying in sync with other departments in the company in order to provide them with capabilities that they need. You will also be responsible for setting the overall direction of infrastructure in the company.
Your organisation will both support, drive and finalise the company split of your respective services from the remaining organisation during the temporary service agreement period - to the new setup. All the while building, fine tuning and managing your teams in delivering excellent services.