Expert/Senior DevOps Engineer

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where the magic happens at KONE. It's where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow® experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experiences to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

R&D unit in KTI is responsible for developing digital services at KONE. It’s the development engine for our Digital Services such as KONE 24/7 Connected Services,  Office Flow and Partnership Ecosystem. 

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer to help us to continue building & managing our cloud platform in AWS to support our digital products. Our landscape is quite interesting and large scale, punctuated with key technology areas such as IoT, machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence etc. to name a few. We will continue to expand our portfolio in AWS at scale. This role provides an excellent opportunity to be part of this amazing journey of building the new digital platform in AWS cloud, while working on interesting challenges with opportunities to continuously learn. 

Role description

• Play a crucial role in designing & building software delivery platforms for several complex solutions in embedded software including safety critical software assets

• Build scalable CI/CD infrastructure with proactive monitoring of the pipelines and the delivery platform infrastructure

• Contribute hands-on to the transformation, development and establishment of DevOps engineering practices in the organization

• Contribute to developer experience enhancement and reducing cognitive load on developers, by building state of the art software delivery platforms with CI/CD and tooling around it 

• Hands-on contribution in critical aspects of delivery platform engineering through infrastructure-as-code & policy-as-code

• Maintain the sanity of the build, deploy & test infrastructure as per the project needs

• Being part of the DevOps digital delivery platforms team, this role will need to collaborate closely with units like Software Development, Cybersecurity, Architecture and agile execution teams to build solutions addressing the common shared goals of the embedded software platforms

In order to be successful in this role

• At least 5 years of experience in building software delivery platforms for complex projects/solutions 

  • Very good knowledge & hands-on experience in: 

    • CI/CD toolchain (Jenkins, Gitlab) in large projects with automated guard rails 

    • Jenkins infrastructure setup and management

    • Linux & C++ debugging

    • Setting up and managing monitoring tools for CI/CD infrastructure

    • Git based SCM tools with best software development practices well versed in various branching, versioning & tagging strategies

    • Strong scripting skills (Python/Groovy etc.) and ability to build scalable software delivery pipelines 

    • Working on large scale production syste