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Welcome to us! Here, 250 dedicated individuals work together, and we believe it's important for you to feel at home with us. We are open to new ideas, our surroundings, and each other. We enjoy trying new things and have a strong drive forward. We view recruitment as a long-term investment and believe it’s essential for you as an employee to feel good, maintain a work-life balance, and have the opportunity to develop your talents.

We work in a flexible workplace, both in lovely offices and with the option to work from home 50% of the time if you wish. In the SPV building, we recommend a coffee break in our winter garden or perhaps a moment in our fresh gym. Additionally, we offer various wellness activities for everyone. We strive for diversity and an inclusive approach at all levels of the organization.

The Swedish Pensions Agency, SPV, is one of Sweden's largest providers of pension services. We manage occupational pensions and insurance for employers in the public sector and have over 1,100,000 customers, including current and former public employees and pensioners. Our office is located in Sundsvall.

Join us and create societal value. We are an authority that aims to make occupational pensions simple for everyone who is or has been a public employee. Our focus is on our customers, action, and innovation. We believe that working together across the organization is a key to delivering high-quality work.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Come and be part of SPV's platform journey! We are currently facing an exciting platform transition and are looking for someone to help shape the future IT infrastructure at SPV.

We are now seeking a junior IT specialist for our IT platform team. The team consists of 11 dedicated specialists with different strengths and abilities who together drive, develop, and manage our IT infrastructure.

In the role of IT specialist, you will work with your team to drive the development of our new OpenShift platform and make it accessible to our development teams. Together, you will ensure the right conditions for our operations through the operation, management, and development of our IT infrastructure with related services and applications such as central logging, certificate management, CMDB, API manager, and quality assurance and implementation of firewall and server orders with our data center provider.

Main Responsibilities:

• be responsible for the operation, management, and development of SPV's IT infrastructure
• manage alarms and monitor performance, availability, and security
• troubleshoot incidents and act during operational disruptions
• support the development teams with changes, lifecycle management, and development of the IT infrastructure
• ensure documentation of services, environments, processes, and changes
• develop lifecycle plans and continuity plans.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a post-secondary degree in IT or several years of work experience that we consider equivalent. You have good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

You have good knowledge of:

• container technology
• Windows server
• Linux
• developing scripts using, for example, Bash
• programming and automation

We consider it an advantage if you have experience with:

• Azure DevOps
• central logging such as Elasticsearch
• the OpenShift platform
• working with a service provider
• the ITIL framework.

To succeed in this role, your personal qualities are very important, and we will place great emphasis on them in this recruitment.

As a person:

• you have good collaboration skills. You enjoy working with others and relate to them in a responsive and smooth manner. You listen, communicate, and resolve any conflicts constructively.
• you are creative. You often come up with ideas and new approaches to work-related issues. You have innovative thinking that can be put into practice and leads to results.
• you have problem-solving and analytical abilities. You find it easy to work with complex issues. You have the ability to analyze and break down problems into their components and solve complicated problems.
• you have pedagogical insight. You have a good understanding of how people absorb knowledge and their different conditions. You adapt the way you convey your message to the recipient.

OTHER

Our operations are based on the common governmental value base. This is a fundamental starting point for us, regardless of what we work with. Democracy is the overarching principle in the value base, and citizens are our ultimate clients. Other principles in the governmental value base are legality, objectivity, freedom of opinion, respect, as well as efficiency and service.

More information about us as an employer and the employment benefits you are offered can be found under Work at SPV on SPV.se.

A security clearance may be conducted. More information about what a security clearance entails can be found here: https://sakerhetspolisen.se/sakerhetsskydd/registerkontroll.html (https://sakerhetspolisen.se/sakerhetsskydd/registerkontroll.html)

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