Sr. Software Engineer (DevOps)

Leapwork is the leading visual test automation platform, revolutionizing the way businesses ensure quality in their software through an AI powered, visual and codeless approach. 

In essence, Leapwork is a process automation platform enabling IT teams and other business users at over 500 global enterprises to adopt digital transformation securely, successfully, and with minimal implementation time. 

Following welcoming major brands like PayPal, Mercedes-Benz, and Google to our customer portfolio, we were recently announced as a Strategic Partner of Microsoft. 

If you're contemplating the next step in your career and seek a fast-paced company where you can impact the build and growth of something truly special, look no further! 

We are looking for new talent to join our team and be part of our growth story as we rapidly expand across the globe. 

 What Leapwork offers: 

• Drive change: Be part of a transformative movement shaping the future of software. 

• Lead together: Our Nordic leadership style emphasizes transparency, mutual support, and leading by example. We believe in both guiding and being guided. 

• Growth potential: Leapwork offers substantial growth opportunities within the organization. If you're ready to learn and lead, your journey begins here. 

• Respectfully different: Our team thrives on respect and inclusivity. We embrace differences, nurturing a supportive culture that values each individual's uniqueness. 

If you like the sound of this, we’d love to hear from you! 

Join Leapwork and be at the forefront of the test automation revolution. 

Who are we looking for? 

As an Sr. Software Engineer (Devops), you will work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment using Agile methodologies. You are great at keeping an eye on the product vision and key challenges, and you are able to rapidly construct working prototypes to experiment with, as well as very high-quality production code.  

Role Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with the product leadership, architecture team, release manager and other stakeholders to understand high-level requirements and develop software architecture and design. 

• Define and ensure coding standards, branching strategy, and testing approach to be followed across all the development teams. 

• Define quality, health, and performance metrics to visualize the state of the product. 

• Monitor code quality, test coverage, and maintain a low level of technical debt. 
• Promote and drive innovation in technologies, processes, and tools. 
• Look after the community of developers within the organization including organizing technical meetings, events, hackathons and fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and collaboration. 

• Know the code and processes by participating in product development and doing code reviews. 

• Lead the implementation of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automation, Kubernetes environment management, and cloud-native solutions. 

• Champion a DevOps culture in the team, ensuring alignment with agile methodologies and continuous improvement. 

• Ensure robustness, security, and performance of the applications through DevOps best practices. 
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure for scalability and efficiency. 
• Oversee security and compliance aspects within the DevOps framework. 

Technical Qualifications/ Role Requirements (Must - Have Skills) 

• Strong technical background including hands-on experience with software development standards and best practices such as SOLID principles, design patterns, test-driven development, agile methodologies, CI/CD, and IaC with Azure Bicep etc. 

• At least 5 years of experience as a professional software developer in commercial projects and production systems with a strong track record. 

• Strong development experience with Microsoft .NET technologies (including the latest versions .NET 6, .NET 7.), strong understanding of the .NET stack and ability to support and mentor a team of .NET developers. 

• Experience in building and managing highly available and scalable distributed systems. 

• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). 

• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure, like Azure, AWS, or GCP and knowledge of best practices for monitoring and logging in cloud-native applications will be a plus. 

• Core DevOps Skills: Proficiency in creating and managing Kubernetes environments, including container orchestration, service mesh implementation, and ensuring high availability and scalability. Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and principles. 

• Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes: Demonstrated experience in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications and its network.