Senior Cloud Engineer — SaaS Infra & Networking

Mercur Solutions AB; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Pension

Wellness allowance

Job summary

Mercur Solutions AB is hiring a Cloud Engineer to join the Infrastructure team in Stockholm. You will operate and maintain the production environment behind our SaaS platform across Windows and Linux, with VMware/OpenStack, and Azure services.

The role emphasizes networking, VPNs/IPSEC tunnels, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code to keep systems reliable, secure, and high performing in production. A hands-on, incident‑driven posture is essential.

Qualifications

• Several years' hands-on experience administering Windows Server and Linux in production.
• Experience with OpenStack or similar private cloud/IaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with production Java applications.
• Strong networking and firewall knowledge incl. VPNs and IPSEC tunnels.
• Solid scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and IaC experience.
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability tools.
• Experience with IaC tools e.g., Ansible, Terraform, or Bicep.
• Experience with Jira or similar ticketing system.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor production infrastructure for the SaaS platform.
• Manage Windows and Linux VMs in production environments.
• Administer and optimize virtualization infrastructure (VMware/OpenStack).
• Manage client VPN access and IPSEC tunnels; work with firewalls.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and performance of .NET/Java apps.
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code for provisioning and config.
• Respond to incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Perform routine maintenance: patching, backups, capacity planning.
• Log and track work in ticketing system; support releases and deployments.
• Build/maintain monitoring, alerting, and automation to reduce toil.
• Maintain infrastructure runbooks and docs.

Skills

Windows & Linux prod

OpenStack/private cloud

Java production apps

Networking & firewalls

PowerShell/Bash/Python

Infrastructure as Code

Datadog/observability

Terraform/Ansible/Bicep

Jira/ticketing

Tools

OpenStack

VMware

Azure

Job description

Mercur Solutions AB is hiring a Cloud Engineer to join the Infrastructure team in Stockholm. You will operate and maintain the production environment behind our SaaS platform across Windows and Linux, with VMware/OpenStack, and Azure services.

The role emphasizes networking, VPNs/IPSEC tunnels, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code to keep systems reliable, secure, and high performing in production. A hands-on, incident‑driven posture is essential.