Dev operations engineer
Helicon builds software for energy companies and startups with energy-related products (e.g ABB, Polarium, Stockholm Exergi). Our experienced software engineers and data scientists specialize in product development, data engineering, and cloud infrastructure.
A typical project includes some kind of data infrastructure (where we use tools like: Kubernetes, Airflow, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, Kafka), a machine learning component (typically built around Spark and Tensorflow), APIs and software to facilitate communication between services (e.g. Python, FastAPI, Django, Kafka, RabbitMQ), and UIs where end-users can operate the system and visualize data and analyses (e.g. React, ThreeJS, WebGL).
About you
- You’re super-passionate about code and technology.
- You enjoy discovering, defining, and solving problems.
- You make pragmatic scoping decisions and are able to explain why the team is doing something a certain way.
- You work with your team to tackle technical challenges and to level up in the process.
- You can theorize and think in abstractions, but understand the importance of getting things done.
- You strike a balance between moving fast and creating scalable and maintainable solutions.
Qualifications
- Fundamental understanding of Linux and networking.
- Experience with running deployments on AWS and/or Azure.
- Ability to determine when to use managed services and when to manage our own.
- Experience with setting up and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
- Security basics such as system hardening, network security, signing and verifying container images etc.
- Very good knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
Bonus qualifications
- Experience with one or more of the following tools that we use: Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Hadoop, Timescale, Tensorflow, Keras.
- Experience with Keycloak or similar identity management tools (e.g. Gluu, Syncope, OpenIAM).
- Experience with Terraform, Packer, Ansible
- Basic Python knowledge.
Work description
- Manage GNU/Linux-based cloud systems and networks.
- Design scalable containerized application infrastructures.
- Continuously improve deployment, integration, and maintenance processes.
- Automate management and monitoring.
- Investigate and resolve service and infrastructural problems.
- Support and coordinate work with external security auditors.
- Provide mentoring and level up the team in terms of standards, processes, and best practices.
Please submit your application to christoffer@helicon.ai.
We hire self-motivated people and trust them to do the right things. Our belief is that autonomy improves learning, increases the velocity we deliver software and is a key driver for happiness in the workplace.
People have a life outside work, with families, friends, and commitments. To make it easier to juggle, everyone has six weeks of vacation, flexible working hours, and decides to work remote, from the office, or something in between.
Helicon is a fast-growing team of friendly, helpful, and smart people. While we're growing fast, we maintain a casual, small business work environment that allows everyone to have a say in the company's direction.
No matter who you ask at Helicon, we all share a love for learning new things and sharing that knowledge with others. If you ask a question on Slack, it will not take you long to get a stream of answers. When you join our team, choose one of our four knowledge guilds, get a mentor and do our Helicon hell program if you’re up for it.
Consultants are often regarded as resources that work out of the clients' facilities and can be used to tackle whatever tasks come their way. We're not that kind of consultants. We're a team, and we work together to solve our clients' hardest problems in the best possible way. We help define the requirements, design the solutions, and work closely with the clients to deliver in bi-weekly increments.