Are you a developer at core, with a passion for automation and infrastructure?

About Storebrand

Storebrand is a leading financial services company based in Norway, with a heritage dating back to 1767. We specialize in insurance, pension, banking, and asset management services. Our mission is to enable our customers to achieve financial security and well-being through sustainable and responsible practices. At the core of our values lies a commitment to transparency, integrity, and customer-centricity. We are driven by innovation and a passion for creating value for our stakeholders.

Our Technology Work

In recent years, Storebrand has embarked on a significant technological transformation, embracing the public cloud to enhance our service delivery and operational efficiency. We were one of the first financial organization to go 100% cloud and have successfully built one of Norway’s strongest cloud and cyber security organizations. We are fully dependent on technology and believe our customers are best served if we manage that technology ourselves. We will continue to invest in our technology organization.

We have a large and varied technology platform with hundreds of systems and applications. This platform is what allows us to create new and innovative solutions for the benefit of our customers. It must be secure, efficient, updated and available for our developers. We embrace the DevOps and SRE philosophies and aim to have the platform as automated as possible. Developers should have self-service access to the platform through documentation, developer portals and guidance.

Position Overview: Platform Engineer

We already have an expert platform team composed of engineers, security specialists and architects. We are looking for a senior platform engineer to join this team. Over the last few years we have built an advanced multi-cloud platform where all infrastructure is automated and deployed continuously. This is only the beginning, and we intend to expand this platform considerably both in scope and capabilities. This work will go hand in hand with modernizing our applications portfolio to fit with modern platform thinking and app development. The platform engineers will be at the center of this journey, directly influencing the design.

The person we are looking for is a developer at their core, with a passion for automation and infrastructure. We aim to solve technology and operational challenges with software development. We place high trust in our people, allowing them to figure out how best to achieve our common goals. But we do not take things on faith, so be prepared to discuss your ideas with your peers. If you want to; you will be able to make an impact here.

Responsibilities

As a senior platform engineer with us, your key responsibilities will include:

Contribute to and implement the design and architecture of the platform

Make decisions regarding methodologies, principles and tooling used in the platform

Contribute heavily to the code base of the platform itself

Design features based on feedback from application developers

Ensure all non-functional requirements like security and operability are met

Help plan and prioritize the team’s work through our agile framework

Research and learn about new technologies and concepts, develop and implement them, to further advance our platform

Qualifications

If you are interested in this position you must be an expert coder with a strong interest in platform engineering. Things happen fast and changes occur all the time, so you be comfortable in such circumstances. You have to be curios, open minded and enjoy working in a team. It is important that you are not only creative in coming up with new solutions, but are also able to plan and deliver those solutions, bringing them from idea to production. Communication, both written and spoken, is also important, as you will have to build relationships with many parts of our organization. One sure thing is that stuff will break, so you must be a good problem solver too.

Join Storebrand and be a part of our innovative technology team. Together, we will continue to drive excellence in financial services and create value for our customers through cutting-edge solutions and sustainable practices.

Why choose Storebrand?

At Storebrand we facilitate personal development and learning through continuous competence development in the form of professional groups, conferences, training, and innovation days.
We believe in the value of having different perspectives and backgrounds in our organisation, and therefore work actively to create a social environment that is inclusive and diverse. We have been recognized for this work by, for example, the awarding of the SHE-index prize for 2023 and 2024, an equality index that measures and compares the gender balance in companies.

We are based in Lysaker, centrally located near public transport, and with capacity for bicycle parking and changing rooms. Working at Storebranand also means that your health will be supported trough agreements with doctors, psychologists, as well as occupational health services. Our premises also house a chiropractor/physiotherapist and a wide range of training opportunities through well-equipped training rooms and our own multipurpose hall.

Furthermore, as an employee, you will enjoy a very good pension scheme, favourable insurances in addition to a subsidized employee loan for home purchase.

If you have any questions regarding the position or Storebrand, contact Head of Cloud Centre of Excellence, Morgan Simonsen (morgan.simonsen@storebrand.no)

Application deadline 25th of May.

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