Senior Platform Engineer / DevOps Consultant to Malmö!

About the role

This is a consulting assignment, which means you will be employed by Academic Work and work as a consultant on site at our client's office in Malmö. The assignment is full-time, starting on 2026-09-01, and runs initially until March 31, 2027, with excellent opportunities for extension. The role applies a flexible hybrid work model.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will enter a complex, distributed development environment where software is built both internally and by third-party suppliers. You will play a key role in ensuring software integrity, scalability, and security. You will become part of an open, supportive team that deeply values knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and high-quality engineering.

As this position is located within a security-cleared environment, Swedish citizenship and a approved background security check are required prior to employment.

Work tasks

• Building the Platform: Establish, maintain, and continuously improve a declarative GitOps-based delivery platform on Kubernetes using ArgoCD.
• Artifact & Supply Chain Governance: Manage and govern JFrog Artifactory, including configuring user permissions, network endpoints, and automated vulnerability scanning (Xray/Curation).
• Production Operations: Run, scale, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters (AKS) and handle deep container diagnostics in production environments.
• System Integration: Support the secure integration of external supplier and third-party software from a platform and configuration management perspective.
• Knowledge Transfer: Author SCM/DevOps documentation, establish best practices, and mentor internal development teams on branching and release strategies.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to enhance and optimize CI/CD pipelines

We are looking for

We believe expertise can be gained from different sources and environments. What matters most is your seniority and ability to deliver sustainably without supervision.

• Advanced practical knowledge of Kubernetes infrastructure (AKS/Azure or AWS) including Helm, Kustomize, and RBAC.
• Advanced practical knowledge of ArgoCD and declarative GitOps delivery workflows.
• Good practical knowledge of configuring and securing JFrog Artifactory (Xray experience is a plus).
• Advanced practical knowledge of Linux system operations, shell scripting, and container troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
• Eligibility for Swedish security clearance (requires Swedish citizenship).

It is meritorious if you have

• Good practical knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Good practical knowledge of production monitoring systems (Prometheus & Grafana) and secrets management (HashiCorp Vault or External Secrets).
• Basic or Good knowledge of Python automation or GitHub Enterprise administration.

To succeed in the role, your personal skills are:

• Goal oriented
• Orderly
• Assertive
• Intellectually curious