Cloud Operations Team Lead

About Klarna

Klarna was founded in Stockholm in 2005 with the idea to simplify buying. Today, we're one of Europe’s fastest growing companies. In 2014 we joined forces with SOFORT and formed Klarna Group, the leading European payment provider.

Klarna Group has more than 1,500 employees and is active on 18 markets. We serve 60 million consumers and work with 70,000 merchants. Our goal is to become the world’s favorite way to buy.

Position

The Cloud Operations team builds and provides the Platform, Tools and Services via our AWS Cloud environment, to advise and support our engineering domains to ensure the path to production of our products and services are as smooth as possible.

The team is responsible for building out a Cloud of Technology options that provides and allows our cutting edge engineering teams to continuously innovate and solve tons of interesting problems, such as:

• Developing the next generation of consumer apps, seamlessly combining payment, financing and post purchase customer care
• Providing a smooth checkout experience for both large and small merchants that maximizes consumer experience
• Developing innovative payment options with unparalleled flexibility and convenience
• Designing cutting edge risk assessment and fraud detection solutions that work at world class speed and reliability
• Collecting, correlating and delivering millions of data points that feed our core services with relevant customer insights

You should get in touch with us if you have experience with and enjoy:

• Automating processes within Cloud Operations; security configuration and account management of the highest quality
• Helping Development teams understand and implement best practice Cloud Architecture
• Working to provide a highly scalable and complex Cloud environment (AWS in this case)
• Implementing tooling to help Development teams use the public Cloud efficiently
• Automating cost monitoring and improving the visibility of resource utilization
• Providing and supporting various programming and tooling options within our Cloud of options to allow an autonomous approach within our Engineering domains

Your qualification

• Experience of working and leading technically within a scalable AWS / Cloud environment, leading and managing multiple account environments and applications
• Technical leadership and service oriented experience, still hands on technically to build out and provide the architectural structure in our high availability AWS Cloud environment and its services
• Ability to support and help create the environment, platform and structure around Cloud based services to diverse engineering groups
• Software Development experience in Python and/or Ruby, Golang but importantly be motivated to understand and work in multiple languages as and when needed
• Test driven development exposure, Automation and scripting experience
• Container technology understanding/experience (i.e. Docker) and Container Orchestration (Mesos, Kubernetes) is desirable
• The use of automation tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible
• Clear, consultative communication ability - logical and advisory in approach

What we offer

• 30 days of annual leave every year
• Generous occupational pension and insurance plans
• Parental pay up to 100% of your salary for 180 days (in Sweden you have 480 days of parental leave paid by the government)
• Flexible work schedule
• International working environment with employees from 42 different countries based in our central Stockholm office
• Learning and development focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training and regular internal technical talks
• Relocation support for you and family