IT Team Leader at the Swedish Forest Agency

Do you want to use your technical skills, operational understanding, and leadership to contribute to something meaningful? At the Swedish Forest Agency, we combine modern IT with an important mission: to preserve and utilize Sweden's forests sustainably.

Our IT environment includes everything from world-leading image analysis and AI models for detecting forest damage to custom-built web-based systems, data warehouses, and standard solutions. Our commitment to a forward-leaning IT infrastructure leads to many exciting projects and development initiatives.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a team leader, you will be a key person in our operations group. You will work practically with operations and management while also having a leading role in the daily work of the operations team.

You will work with:

• Daily operations in the Swedish Forest Agency's existing Microsoft and/or Linux environments
• Troubleshooting, improving, and contributing solutions to existing Windows and/or Linux systems and applications
• Planning and installing new technical solutions
• Being a driving force in the development and improvement of operational processes, guidelines, and routines
• Leading and facilitating various types of meetings within the operations group, e.g., weekly operations meetings and retrospectives
• Planning and distributing work within the operations group
• Supporting colleagues and contributing to team development
• Being one of the contact persons for other groups in the organization
• Actively working with the operations group's management plan and long-term planning.

We work closely together in a team where knowledge is shared and challenges are solved collectively.

Qualifications and Your Skills

We are looking for someone who has:

• At least 5 years of experience working as a development-oriented systems technician within an organization with custom-developed systems
• Experience with methodologies based on, e.g., ITIL, Change release
• Experience with tools that support collaboration with software development teams, e.g., Azure DevOps Services.
• At least 1 year of active technical work in: Linux container solutions and Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience leading teams, projects, or coordinating work efforts
• Good ability to structure and prioritize work
• Strong communication skills and the ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish.
• Higher education/YH in IT or equivalent experience.

Desirable skills:

• Experience with monitoring solutions (e.g., SCOM)
• Experience in Incident Management
• Knowledge of hybrid/on-prem environments with both Microsoft, Azure, and Linux
• Experience in automation via scripts (e.g., Terraform, Infrastructure as code)
• Management of container solutions using Rancher.

Personal Qualities

We are looking for someone who is responsible, structured, and has a genuine interest in both technology and people. You are eager to share your knowledge, prioritize the team's best interests, and are motivated to develop both yourself and others. Furthermore, the role requires the ability to handle stress during technical disruptions.

More than Just a Job

At the IT department, you will find kindness and helpfulness where we support each other and solve things together. We offer a varied work environment, good opportunities for professional development, and a mission that truly makes a difference for both people and the environment.

Our Offer to You

We offer a permanent full-time position with individual salary setting. The employment begins with a 6-month probationary period. Start date according to agreement.

Location at our headquarters in Jönköping.

Questions about the job can be answered by group manager Senija Delalic Bakalbasic. Union contacts are Rebecca Hunt for SACO and Rickard Åman for ST. All can be reached via our switchboard at phone number 010-172 10 00.

Welcome with your application by April 12, 2026!

This is the Swedish Forest Agency

The Swedish Forest Agency is an authority for issues related to forests. Our vision is Forests for the Benefit of All. We work to ensure that the country's forests are cared for and used so that they provide sustainable good yields while preserving biodiversity and other environmental values. We also work to increase awareness of the importance of forests to society.

We are present throughout the country with offices from Pajala in the north to Hässleholm in the south. The headquarters is located in Jönköping. Our geographical spread and cross-functional collaborations mean that our ways of working are largely digital, although travel is required for some of our positions.

Together, we work to ensure that our authority is a friendly workplace where all employees thrive, develop, and want to stay. All our work is based on the state value framework.

Your introduction will be complemented by training that strengthens you in your role at the Swedish Forest Agency and as a civil servant. We have both an employee idea and a leadership idea with shared values: community, respect, responsibility, and curiosity. Whether you are a leader or not, we hope you share these values with us.

We offer several valuable employment benefits that can make a significant difference for you. You will also receive a good earning towards your occupational pension, and there is also security in your employment should anything happen to you. We hope you will enjoy working with us!

If you are curious or have a question, do not hesitate to reach out if you do not find the answer on our website: https://skogsstyrelsen.se/om-oss/ (https://skogsstyrelsen.se/om-oss/) and https://skogsstyrelsen.se/om-oss/var-verksamhet/jobba-hos-oss/ (https://skogsstyrelsen.se/om-oss/var-verksamhet/jobba-hos-oss/)

Welcome to the Swedish Forest Agency!