TechOps Engineer
Northvolt is a European supplier of high-quality battery cells and systems, made in an environmentally sustainable way. The company was founded in 2016 with the mission to build the world’s greenest battery with a minimal carbon footprint and the highest recycling capabilities.
In the plant located in Gdańsk we produce energy storage systems and battery modules that replace internal combustion engines in industrial machines. Currently Northvolt Poland is increasing its manufacturing capabilities by building a highly-automated, state-of-the-art production plant.
Currently we are looking for TechOps Engineer to join our IT team.
We work with a "cloud-first"-mindset which presents us with unique and interesting challenges, pushing the traditional ways of working in manufacturing. We have a ruthless focus on automating all our IT infrastructure and processes, and applying IaC or IaC like philosophy to each and every aspect of it.
We know that many different names are given to this role in other companies, and your experience likely spans a variety of areas. It is likely that in the past you have had titles like sysadmin, system engineer, infrastructure engineer, devops engineer, SRE engineer or even system architect. It is also very likely that you have significant experience with both *nix and Win platforms, and probably even a bit of networking.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, test and deploy infrastructure to operate a modern factory producing large amounts of data and connected batteries daily and be at the cutting edge of a so called 4th industrial revolution, Industry 4.0.
- Bring best practices from various IT engineering disciplines to industrial world and very often be part of optimization and value-added engineering of products, services and solutions from world’s leading technology and manufacturing companies. Simply put, you would be helping us bring industry up to speed with technology.
- Work to develop and help to document Northvolt’s processes around design, provisioning and deployment of our complete IT and IoT infrastructure.
- Work with the InfoSec team to continuously test, monitor, and improve the security of our IT and IoT infrastructure.
- Work with our networking team implementing SDN and IaC automation principles in our industrial, building and private&public cloud networks.
- Have a day-to-day communication and close relationship with senior engineering and product development teams from some of the biggest technology providers in the world and constantly evaluate and provide early adopters feedback for some of their flagship products and services.
- Share the platform (tools and competence) and closely work with our DevOps team. We like to think that our TechOps is very similar to our DevOps, just a tiny bit more fun. Meaning that we not only work with products, tools and services that are designed as cloud native and built for automation, but deal with large variety of systems, products and services, each with its own set of challenges and on a different leg of a journey towards technological maturity and advancement. For some, this is cumbersome and tiring process, but for you and us, it is the reason we love our jobs. We find ways to automate things that are not meant to be automated.
- Work with all our IT teams to help build out the right enterprise architecture and integrate a wide variety of systems and business applications in a way that would minimize manual administration, eliminate repetitive tasks and automate them to an extent which would allow our IT team to not get stuck in administration but focus solely on fun and challenging tasks of further optimization and implementation of new solutions.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional group of experts across the company to make sure we build the right things together for the right reasons and learn how general mass scale manufacturing works, and how electrical batteries are designed, developed, and produced from cradle to grave.
- Keep up with the state of the art in IT infrastructure, “everything as a code”, virtualization, “containerization” and IT engineering processes, as well as develop more domain knowledge in related areas (among others, automation, battery manufacturing and connectivity).
- Help us build a great team and make Northvolt a great place to work!
The position involves working on site with the possibility of working remotely once fully onboarded. 100% remote work is not possible.
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
Education/Experience:
- Designing and managing various components and aspects of enterprise IT infrastructure - Linux and Windows platforms
- Deploying and managing infrastructure in public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) using infrastructure as code (ideally Terraform)
- Designing, building and managing on-prem data centers and private clouds
- Working with distributed systems, microservices, load balancing, etc.
- Working with virtualization, containerization and related technologies
- Advanced scripting, and some basic programming skills (in at least one language)
- Polish driver's license is a plus
- Good communication skills, ability to Get Stuff Done, and a learning mindset
- Passion for solving problems with technology in simple yet innovative ways, especially with open source software
- Accepting that things change, constantly. Requirements, designs, deadlines, technologies, solutions, tools, opinions... all those do, and should change. We do not want you to cope or deal with changes, we need you to drive them.
- Polish driver's license is a plus
- Polish work permit is a plus
- Documented work experience within European Union is a plus.
Other qualities that we cherish are sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humor.
We offer:
- Stable employment conditions - employment contract (indefinite after 6 months)
- Private medical care in LUX MED – extended package with a freedom of treatment (partial refunding of invoices) for the employee fully paid by the company
- MyBenefit System – monthly card top-ups, the possibility to purchase a Multisport card
- Co-financing postgraduate studies
- Employee referral programme
- Financing of commuting by bicycle
- Christmas/holiday bonuses from Employee Benefit Fund (ZFŚS)
- Co-financing of sports activities and integration budget
- The possibility to invest in Northvolt group’s shares
- Relocation bonus
- Work in an international environment - the ability to use English daily
- Opportunity to develop and acquire new skills in a company taking part in the transformation to renewable energy
- Friendly and open working atmosphere in a diverse team
Great Place to Work
World leading technique
Top specialists as team peers
International environment
About the company
Northvolt is a European supplier of sustainable, high-quality battery cells and systems. Founded in 2016 to enable the European transition to a decarbonized future, Northvolt has made swift progress on its mission to deliver the world’s greenest lithium-ion battery with a minimal CO2 footprint and the highest ambitions for recycling. Among Northvolt industrial partners and customers are ABB, BMW Group, Scania, Siemens, Vattenfall, Vestas and the Volkswagen Group.
Northvolt Ett is a next generation battery cell factory focused on process innovation, scale and vertical integration. Once completed, the gigafactory will be one of the largest battery cell factory in Europe and produce at least 32 GWh of capacity annually.
Alongside Northvolt Ett, Northvolt is also establishing a manufacturing site for battery systems in Gdansk, Poland. This facility, Northvolt Battery Systems Jeden, will industrialize and produce world leading battery systems in order to meet the increased demand for complete battery solutions on the European market. The factory is a highly automated, state-of-the-art production facility for battery modules and energy storage solutions.
We are currently in an exciting fast-growing phase and operate in a dynamic environment, dealing with a wide range of stakeholders.
We want to work with experienced manufacturing experts as well as talented and purpose driven people from all kinds of disciplines to make this happen. Those of us already on board share a bold streak and a passion for our mission. We are prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a real difference. We are a team dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun. Join us today!
Aleksandra Klimek | Contact Person
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