System Developer Linux/DevOps at AIDA Data Hub
Workplace: Norrköping, Sverige
Expires: August 24, 2025
Develop and manage services facilitating life-saving and suffering-reducing research using secure, reliable, and easy-to-use solutions, primarily based on open standards and open source software, within a small, distributed, cross-functional team at Linköping University.
Main requirements:
  • Master's degree in computer science or equivalent knowledge.
  • Solid knowledge of Unix/Linux systems.
  • Knowledge of various network types and security aspects.
  • Skills in technical administration and management of IT services and applications.
  • Experience or willingness to work in secure or isolated (air-gapped) infrastructure environments is a strong merit.
  • Experience with distributed, cross-functional international teams is meritorious.
  • Excellent communication skills in English, both spoken and written.
  • Strong personal suitability and ability to work collaboratively.
Responsibilities:
  • Build and operate services facilitating sensitive research data handling.
  • Develop with scripting and code-based infrastructure management.
  • Investigate and troubleshoot issues potentially requiring reading and understanding source code of various tools.
  • Integrate and glue together existing software rather than primary software development.
  • Participate in code reviews and adhere to a standard development lifecycle.
  • Document and communicate decisions and work to colleagues.
  • Possibility to own and be the primary decision-maker for particular technical areas.
Required hard skills:
  • Unix/Linux systems administration and development.
  • Scripting and programming for infrastructure automation.
  • Understanding of network protocols and security.
  • Experience with containerization, virtualization, and orchestration technologies.
  • Configuration management and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Continuous Integration (CI) practices.
Recommended hard skills:
  • Experience in secure or air-gapped environments.
  • Experience working in academic, industrial, or healthcare IT environments.
  • Experience with distributed international teams.
  • Experience in regulated or public sector environments (e.g., banking).
Soft skills:
  • Strong communication skills in English.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively in a small and distributed team.
  • Willingness to document and share knowledge.
  • Problem-solving mindset with attention to algorithmic complexity and maintainability.
  • Adaptability and ownership in assigned areas.
Coding languages:
  • Any modern, maintainable programming language suitable for scripting and infrastructure automation (not explicitly specified).
Frameworks:
  • Not explicitly specified, but experience with CI/CD and configuration management tools implied.
Operating systems:
  • Unix
  • Linux
Natural languages:
  • English (Proficient)
  • Swedish (Basic familiarity)
Cultural skills:
  • Working in a small, cross-functional, distributed team.
  • Contributing to open source and open standards.
  • Participating in asynchronous communication via chat and email as well as synchronous video meetings.
  • Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusive working environment.
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