Network Technician with a Passion for Automation

We are looking for a network technician with a strong interest in automation for our Operations & Infrastructure unit!

If you, like us, enjoy working with cutting-edge technology, have the opportunity to work innovatively, and want to have a significant influence on the future of the network technology you work with, then our network team is the right place for you!

We also have a breadth in our daily work that gives us opportunities to learn more and work on a wide variety of tasks, while we can delve deeper into areas we find particularly exciting.

About the Job

With us, you will have a plethora of opportunities to change and improve our technical area together with others in the team. Your tasks will include:

• exploring and implementing automation ideas for our area (Think “Infrastructure as Code”)
• maintaining and developing our existing IT infrastructure
• network security
• being an idea creator and problem solver
• having a positive attitude and the ability to keep morale high even during technical challenges
• last but not least, having a great sense of humor, it should be fun at work!

As a network technician with us, you will be part of our network team consisting of competent colleagues who have fun together. We work agilely with the support of the SAFe framework, where we constantly strive to improve regardless of the matter, with an open and positive culture.

In our agile organization, you will belong to the team Tvärbanan, while in our line organization you will belong to the area of Infrastructure where I, Fredrik, will be your manager, and I really look forward to having you on board our exciting journey ahead.

Are you ready to combine your technical skills with a dose of humor and be part of a team that believes that job satisfaction is the key to success? Then you are the one we are looking for. Submit your application today and let’s grow together!

Your Profile

To thrive in the role of network technician with us, it is important that you have good analytical and problem-solving skills. Furthermore, we see that you are curious, responsible, and performance-oriented. Working as a team is a given for you, you have good collaboration skills and enjoy our climate where knowledge sharing is a natural part of the work.

To achieve our goals, we place great emphasis on our culture and how we together influence our workplace. Therefore, you should have an interest and willingness to be part of this cultural journey. We actively work with our employee engagement, which encompasses everyone in the authority and consists of three key areas. We take responsibility, enable change, and drive development.

We place great importance on your personal qualities and suitability for the role.

We are looking for someone who has

• At least three years of work experience in some of the following network areas: switching, routing, load balancing, WLAN, firewalls, and physical hardware for office networks
• Relevant education/knowledge or work experience in technical system development in, for example, Python and Ansible, as well as version control with, for example, Git
• Good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written

It is a merit if you have experience with Atlassian's product suite (Jira, Bitbucket/Git, Confluence)

We offer

A government assignment that is truly important! A workplace where we care about our employees having a good balance between work and leisure. We offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work partially from home. As a state employee, you also have good employment conditions and a benefits package that includes wellness, extra days off, and good vacation and pension terms. Our office in Stockholm is centrally located in Hornstull, close to the subway.

You can read more about our benefits and what it’s like to work with us here (https://www.pensionsmyndigheten.se/om-pensionsmyndigheten/jobba-hos-oss/jobba-pa-pensionsmyndigheten).

Good to Know

The position is a permanent full-time employment and we apply a 6-month probationary period.

The position can be located in Stockholm or Luleå, which are the core locations of the IT department. The work will involve travel to our offices across the country. In Luleå, we are located in brand new premises at Porsön near Science Park adjacent to the university. Our office in Stockholm is close to Hornstull subway station.

The employment may be placed in a security class.

Your Application

We work competency-based throughout the process and are committed to an inclusive, fair, objective, and candidate-friendly process. Therefore, we ask you to answer a number of selection questions instead of requesting a personal letter.

We may use psychological tests in the recruitment process.

If you have protected personal information, please contact the recruiting manager who will assist you with your application.

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, and therefore welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

In preparation for the recruitment work, we have made decisions regarding advertising channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask for no further contact with media/advertising sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

The Swedish Pensions Agency is responsible for public pensions and provides information about the entire pension. Each year, we pay out approximately 415 billion kronor to 2.3 million pensioners, conduct approximately 911,000 fund switches, and send out 8 million orange envelopes. We have about 25 million digital customer contacts per year. We are about 1,700 employees in eight locations, from Luleå in the north to Halmstad in the south. We make pensions simpler.

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