DevOps Lead

Company Description

You see things a little differently. So do we. We believe that what you value is more important than what your CV says. We offer positions that will challenge your skills and let you grow. Come see things a little differently with us.
The world is changing and the IKEA business is changing with it. For IKEA though, one thing will always remain the same ─ our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people. 

We are strengthening and developing our competences in order to meet the needs and dreams of the many people around the world. And to be accessible and relevant, wherever and whenever they wish to meet IKEA. 

About Inter IKEA Systems B.V. 

Inter IKEA Systems B.V. owns the IKEA Concept and is the worldwide IKEA franchisor. We are specifically responsible for the IKEA strategic framework, ensuring that the IKEA Concept is updated, relevant, implemented and followed-up – together with all IKEA trademark users. 

How do we do this? By enabling people across the IKEA value chain, and creating unique content to develop the IKEA business. Here are some examples of our different assignments: 

• Develop solutions that will ensure a unique and successful meeting with IKEA customers. 

• Lead the work around when and how IKEA expands in the world, enabling one common way of working with high impact at a low cost. 

• Create the preconditions to strengthen the IKEA Culture and develop the right competences to meet customer and business needs. 

An important part of our success is our unique culture and open working environment. Together, we create a workplace where everyone feels free to be themselves – to experiment, try new ways, and dare to ask, “What if…?” We believe in everyday personal growth and offer the opportunity to develop your career globally.
With our renewed business idea, the appetite for insights has never been greater! The IKEA Insights team is in high demand to bring the outside-in perspective needed to reach more people, making great design available to everyone.
IKEA Insights is a global team and has the assignment to contribute to IKEA people, making well-founded decisions based on actionable and timely insight. This means creating Insight solutions fuelled by data and tailored to different business needs. These solutions are currently divided into Customer Experience Insight, Strategy & Market Insight, and Brand & Range Insight. Each of these three areas develops and operates Insight products used by IKEA people across our value chain.

Job Description

Are you someone who likes to do things differently and wants to be part of a force for positive change for people and the environment?
We’re looking for a curious DevOps Lead to join our journey in creating solutions for a better tomorrow. You’ll be part of the product focused Insights Data & Technology Team that contributes to Insight products that help shape IKEA’s experiences, strategy and plans. These products cover: 

How People Live
Insights Platform 
Brand and Range Performance 
Customer Experience 
Strategic Market Insight
Competitor Insight

As the DevOps Lead, you will leave your mark in many ways! The DevOps Lead is a critical role within the digital transformation that IKEA is currently undergoing, so there is no more exciting time to join us than now. As a hands-on DevOps Lead you will:

• Introduce and ensure correct tooling and process in our build pipelines. 

• Optimize our time to delivery for requested changes in our digital products and systems 

• Remove tooling barriers and complexity in order to maximize efficiency in our software development 

• Develop and maintain our build pipelines 

• Coach and develop our digital product teams in DevOps practice 

• Work close with our product teams, making sure our systems and solutions are testable and easy to deploy 

• Work towards a digital landscape where our systems and solutions are flexible and enabled for a/b testing and continuous deploy and delivery 

• Ensure that the digital product teams have the tools and processes in order to monitor our production environments. 

• Ensure reusability of product components and contribute to relevant tech communities across IKEA. 

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.

• Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build and deploy Azure / AWS applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modelling and advanced analytics. 

Qualifications

• If you want to be part of a curious, creative environment that’s open to taking risks, this may be your new home. 
• As DevOps Lead, you will have solid software engineering skills across full stack development, with a track record of developing, maintaining and operating digital (analytics) products. Experience around data processing, integration, modelling and visualization will be highly regarded.
• You’ll bring a minimum of 3+ years of experience in a similar role as well as a demonstrated breadth of knowledge across digital technology, digital infrastructure, IT services and product operations.
• You will apply what you know, bringing your Python and ETL systems (like Snaplogic, Airflow, Azure Data Factory) experience in a Microservices & DevOps-focused environment. You'll support the creation of business products by combining data and Web technology with the help of architecture frameworks and tools like Github, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS. Ideally, you will have experience working with cloud-based and advanced analytics technologies (like MS Azure, Terraform, Databricks or others) and will be comfortable working in an agile environment.

Additional Information

This position is full-time (32-40 hours per week) and is located in Delft (NL). Some travel may be required and in this role and you will be reporting to the Insights Data & Technology Manager. 
Please send your application (CV) in English to us by Friday 20th September 2024. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you want to work at IKEA and why you would be a good fit for this role.
At IKEA, we always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity.