Schibsted Media Group is
an international media group with 6800 employees in 31 countries. From
Mexico to Malaysia, from Brazil to Norway – millions of people interact
with Schibsted companies every day. We ensure that new and old sofas can
be sold. News reports are read and watched when, where and how
consumers want. Weather reports are checked with quick online services.
Carpenters are found through a couple of clicks. Prices are compared and
the latest fashion is browsed... these examples are just some of the
ways our services empower people all around the world in their daily
lives.
Schibsted Products & Technology is a
brand new technology start-up within Schibsted, with offices in London,
Stockholm, Barcelona and Oslo.
Our philosophy is built on
keeping an open mind, challenging ourselves, and the status quo. The
goal is to shape the future of our industry. To achieve this we recruit
attitude in addition to technical skills. If you are driven, ambitious,
not afraid of challenges and thrive on finding new solutions, we want to
hear from you.
The overall mission of Schibsted Products and
Technology is to develop the common global product platforms and
technology infrastructure necessary to create data and identity based
ecosystems; empowering local entrepreneurs, delighting users, and
driving Schibsted’s future growth. With over 250 million monthly active
users under our belt, we're able to harness huge amounts data to provide
insights on a global scale. Together with our deep local expertise,
we've got a winning combination
In the
Infrastructure team we create and maintain a self-service platform that
makes it easy for engineering teams to continuously deliver services and
products to our users.
You can think of this platform as a
custom PaaS (platform as a service solution) specially tailored to
Schibsted’s needs. This platform should allow us to build fast, secure,
scalable and available solutions in a much more efficient way.
Our
team is spread across Barcelona, Oslo and Stockholm and focusing on the
following areas: Identity and Payment; Platform, Marketplaces and
Media; Security and Data; Collaboration Tools and Ads
Responsibilities
- As
part of the technology group within Schibsted you will advise this
group as to which technology stacks / cloud / big data solutions to use
- Automating the operations and production of large-scale distributed systems so no manual intervention is needed eventually
- Help
develop an state of the art platform as a service solution using the
latest and greatest technologies and approaches (e.g. Mesos, Docker,
Microservices, etc)
- Help develop the best possible continuous
delivery pipelines supporting features like automated promotion to
production, automated canary releasing or blue green deployments
- Forensic analysis and troubleshooting when things go wrong
- Work
closely with the engineering organisation making sure that they follow
the infrastructure guidelines that you set and help them make design /
reliability trade offs and implement systems that fail over gracefully
and transparently to clients
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions that enables the production systems to be monitored 24/7
- Respond to requests from engineering by building self-service solutions
- Make sure that any tech solution that you put in place is robust, will scale, and failover / BCP systems are in place
- Deployment and maintenance of databases and data store clusters across multiple datacenters worldwide.
- Liaise with 3rd parties to purchase / license technology that Schibsted needs
- Install, configure, fine-tune, and optimise technology solutions
Requirements
- A BSc (or equivalent) degree in computer science
- Strong analytical / problem solving skills
- Strong UNIX background
- The ability to write scripts to diagnose problems (Perl, Python or similar)
- Proven ability and experience developing computer programs (Golang, Java, Python, Ruby or similar)
- Experience in building systems that scale
- Experience with modern deployment tools like Jenkins, Git, Puppet, Chef