Infrastructure Architect
Workplace: Stockholm, Sverige
Expires: August 11, 2025
We are looking for a committed and driven IT Architect focusing on IT infrastructure to help shape the future digital research landscape. You will play a central role in the continued digitalization at Karolinska Institutet by optimizing, developing, and implementing current and future digital environments and enterprise solutions, ensuring a flexible and future-proof IT environment that meets increasing organizational needs securely and efficiently.
Main requirements:
- Experience as an IT architect focusing on infrastructure.
- Relevant higher education in IT or equivalent experience.
- Ability to communicate well in Swedish and English, both spoken and written.
- Experience working with large-scale enterprise environments including cloud-based, hybrid, and local IT solutions.
- Experience working in infrastructure projects.
- Ability to keep updated on IT and technology developments.
- Strong understanding of information and IT security.
- Knowledge/experience in server and application operations in hyperconverged environments.
- Familiarity with products such as Active Directory, Windows/Linux, M365/Azure, AWS, Shibboleth, MSSQL, MariaDB, Docker (swarm), Kubernetes, VMWare, Proxmox, NetApp.
Responsibilities:
- Optimize, develop and implement current and future digital environments and enterprise systems.
- Advise ongoing and future projects aiming to centralize IT environments within the university.
- Work closely with product owners, IT service owners, and IT operations to ensure IT solutions meet organizational needs and requirements.
- Create decision bases for further development and introduction of central IT services.
- Participate actively in national networks within Swedish higher education institutions.
- Contribute to the design of target images, strategies, and roadmaps for KI's IT landscape.
Required hard skills:
- IT architecture focusing on infrastructure
- Experience with enterprise-scale cloud, hybrid, and local IT solutions
- Project work in infrastructure
- Server and application operations in hyperconverged environments
- Knowledge of Active Directory, Windows/Linux, M365/Azure, AWS
- Experience with databases such as MSSQL, MariaDB
- Container technologies including Docker swarm and Kubernetes
- Virtualization technologies such as VMWare, Proxmox
- Storage systems like NetApp
- IT and information security expertise
Soft skills:
- Good communication skills in Swedish and English
- Ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders
- Proactive in staying updated on IT trends
- Advisory skills for business and projects
Operating systems:
- Windows
- Linux
Natural languages:
- Swedish (Proficient)
- English (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
- Ability to work in international and multidisciplinary teams
- Interest in contributing to medical research and education environment at a leading university
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