Senior IT System Administrator

About Modelon

Modelon is revolutionizing the engineering design industry by offering technologies and services that enable customers to leverage system simulation. Modelon’s flagship product, Modelon Impact, is a cloud system simulation platform that helps engineers design, analyze, and simulate physical systems. Our team is dedicated to guiding customers to create innovative technologies.

About the Role

As a Senior IT System Administrator you report to the IT Operations Manager. Your responsibilities will include design, administration, and maintenance of on-premises and cloud IT Infrastructure and IT services, Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters.

In your role, you will be working closely with your IT Operations colleagues, as well as application developers, customer support and QA/Automation/Deployment. You will take part in second line customer support.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with customer support and customers to troubleshoot and identify issues

• Setup and maintain both local infrastructure and public cloud services

• Assist in designing infrastructure for cloud/orchestrating services

• Discuss architecture and establish best practices with the entire organization

• Provide senior level expertise in your responsibility areas

Required skills and experiences

A minimum of six years of system administration experience including most of the areas below:

• Linux/Unix system administration
• Configuring and maintaining Kubernetes/container environments
• Automated configuration management, such as Terraform or Bicep
• Configuring and maintaining monitoring/logging systems
• Basic understanding of networking and firewalls
• Basic understanding of database administration
• Experience with a major cloud provider
• Scripting, preferably using bash or python
• Troubleshooting issues in above areas
• Fluent communication in English and an interest in technical discussions and knowledge sharing
• Self-motivated and ambitious
• Service-minded

Skills and experiences that are good to have

• An interest in storage, backup and related technologies, both on-premises and in cloud
• Experience with common cloud deployment technologies, such as Helm or ArgoCD
• Experience with patch management
• Experience with Identity and Access Management
• Experience with IT best practices and ways of working within IT operations, IT security and disaster management
• Good understanding of network technologies

What We Offer

Modelon is a multinational company with colleagues across the world with top expertise in mathematics, physical modeling, application knowledge and compiler development. We are a world-leading modeling/simulation software provider, and you will have an opportunity to make a difference in a product used by many very well-known global companies.

Application and Contact Details

This position is based in Lund, Sweden. We are handling applications as they come in, so apply as soon as possible. For more information and questions about this position, please contact our IT Manager, Håvard Skrödahl, at havard.skrodahl@modelon.com