Developer Platform Engineer

Volvo Group; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Senior role

Hybrid work model

Collaborative environment

Résumé du poste

Volvo Group is seeking a Senior Developer Platform Engineer to own and evolve our monitoring and automation platform within the Onsite Digital Solutions team. You will shape monitoring strategy, build scalable digital solutions, and mentor colleagues to advance observability.

You will collaborate with IT management and technicians to deliver resilient, end-to-end solutions across production and logistics environments, applying your development and operations experience in a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Development background with proficiency in several programming languages.
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and automation.
• Experience building containerized workloads with modern tooling.
• Scripting and automation skills in Python or Bash.
• Strong networking and IT infrastructure knowledge.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence and guide others.
• Familiarity with working in an agile team.

Responsabilités

• Drive the design, configuration, and optimization of our monitoring and automation platform.
• Define and implement best practices for observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Develop advanced automation workflows to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• Architect and code missing capabilities, including integrations with hardware and systems.
• Collaborate with developers, operations, and product teams to deliver end-to-end digital solutions.
• Act as a technical expert and advisor, guiding colleagues and stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the organization.
• Help shape the roadmap for monitoring, automation, and digital services.

Connaissances

C#

JavaScript

Go

Python

Java

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Python scripting

Networking

Agile

Communication

Outils

Docker

Kubernetes

Power Automate

Bash

Power BI

Description du poste

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

Opportunity

Are you motivated by working with people, cool technologies and being part of a team that has a high impact on enabling strong insights for both IT Management and IT Technicians into operational stability?

Then we might have something that will catch your attention.

We are looking for a Senior Developer Platform Engineer to join our Onsite Digital Solutions team. In this role, you will take ownership of our monitoring and automation platform, driving innovation and ensuring operational excellence. You will take part in shaping our monitoring strategy, building scalable digital solutions, and mentor colleagues as we advance our automation and observability capabilities.

Wanted profile

As a person you are curious and eager to understand and learn. You enjoy making things smarter and easier for people that receive your deliveries, automating things for them where possible. You are driven by reaching goals, and you are motivated by seeing challenge in front of you. You recognize that different problems require different tools to solve them and are eager to master new tools.

Most importantly, you are solution-oriented, meaning you focus on the entire delivery-chain. You share a belief that we are stronger together and understand and recognize importance of that for achieving remarkable results. In practice this means having an open mindset when discussing solutions with your peers in the team and in the organization, when you either challenge colleagues, or colleagues will challenge you to optimize deliveries.

As our primary task is to ensure that we can maintain a high level of insight to the health state of our production lines through monitoring, we will find it beneficial if you have prior experience with IT environment of production and warehouse facilities, be it infrastructure or applications. It would also be an advantage if you have a good technical understanding of infrastructure, as it always imposes constraints on what and how we monitor.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the design, configuration, and optimization of our monitoring and automation platform.
• Define and implement best practices for observability, monitoring, and alerting for our users.
• Develop advanced automation workflows and tools to reduce manual effort and increase reliability for both our users and us.
• Architect and code missing capabilities for our platform, including integrations with hardware and systems being monitored, business platforms.
• Collaborate with developers, operations, and product teams to deliver end-to-end digital solutions.
• Act as a technical expert and advisor, guiding colleagues and stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge-sharing across the organization.
• Play a key role in shaping the roadmap for monitoring, automation, and digital services.

Qualifications

• Development background with proficiency in at least couple of programming languages (i.e.: C#, JavaScript, Go, Python, Java, or similar).
• Acquaintance with Azure DevOps, ability to create and leverage its pipelines and associated infrastructure.
• Experience building and working with containerized workloads.
• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Power Automate or similar).
• Good knowledge of networking and IT infrastructure and associated protocols.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence and guide others.
• Familiarity with working in an agile team.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Data analysis and reporting (Power BI)
• Experience contributing to architecture or solution design in cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on experience with Zabbix would be good but not a must.

What We Offer

• A senior role with influence on the direction of our automation and monitoring strategy.
• Opportunities to apply both your development and operations experience in a hybrid role.
• A collaborative environment with the freedom to innovate.

Who We Are And What We Believe In

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

Group Digital & IT

is the hub for digital development within Volvo Group. Imagine yourself working with cutting-edge technologies in a global team, represented in more than 30 countries. We are dedicated to leading the way of tomorrow’s transport solutions, guided by a strong customer mindset and high level of curiosity, both as individuals and as a team. Here, you will thrive in your career in an environment where your voice is heard and your ideas matter.