Application deadline: 01. March 2025.
Type of employment: Full-time.
Place of work: From our offices in Tromsø, Trondheim or Bergen (Norway). Additionally, there is a possibility of changing locations or even working remotely for certain periods.
Help us build the future of ocean modeling
Oceanbox is a fast-growing company, and we’re looking for an experienced Platform Engineer with a passion for Linux, system administration, and cloud infrastructure.
Oceanbox is an expanding SaaS-company looking for skilled full-stack developers to strengthen our development team primarily in Tromsø. We develop advanced high-resolution oceanographic modeling services through a modern SaaS platform, providing API-driven mapping tools directly in the browser. Our backend runs on a scalable microservices architecture in the cloud, combined with high-performance on-prem computing (HPC) infrastructure connected to fast, multi-petabyte storage. Our software offers a new approach to analysing the impact of the ocean currents, and we aim to play a vital role in securing the sustainability of the worlds oceans, and the industries working in the near coast environment.
Basic qualifications:
- Minimum 2 years experience with the tasks (below)
- Minimum Bachelor degree in natural sciences is required, preferably within computer science
- Kubernetes system administration
- Linux system administration
- Cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Programming (preferably functional programming)
- Databases (SQL, NoSQL)
Preferred qualifications:
- NixOS and Talos
- Ceph (Rook)
- HPC administration
- GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD)
- Networking, control planes, and InfiniBand
- Observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Replication, redundancy, HA, backup
- Message queues (AMQP)
Main tasks:
As a platform engineer at Oceanbox, you’ll work in a dynamic and highly skilled environment, using a broad range of technologies. A stable, secure, and efficient delivery platform is critical to our success. We are looking for a skilled engineer to enhance, automate, and scale our infrastructure, ensuring high performance and reliability.
- Enhance our Kubernetes, cloud, and HPC environments
- Automate and streamline operations to improve efficiency, security, and reliability
- Contribute to the architecture and optimization of our computing and storage infrastructure
- Manage system administration tasks: monitoring, alerting, upgrades, scaling, and maintenance
Our platform includes private and public cloud Kubernetes clusters and on-premise HPC and large-scale storage solutions. Currently, we manage over a petabyte of three-dimensional oceanographic time series data, and we’re planning for massive growth in storage and compute capacity.
Personal characteristics:
At Oceanbox, we emphasize building a strong culture. In fact, our principles are values that everyone who works at Oceanbox practices on a daily basis. These are qualities we always look for in new employees:
- Customer-centric mindset: You prioritize the needs of our customers above all else
- Ownership mentality: You take initiative and responsibility for your work
- Action-oriented approach: You value progress and make things happen, constantly driving results and overcoming obstacles
- High standards: You strive for excellence in your work and inspire the same in others
- Candid communication: You provide honest, constructive feedback, which fosters growth and transparency within the team
- Respectful collaboration: You treat everyone with fairness and respect
We offer:
- Fast paced, creative and collaborative working environment
- Hands-on experience working alongside seasoned experts in a supportive team environment
- Leveraging a cutting-edge technology stack and a dynamic programming environment to drive innovation, efficiency, and seamless development
- Empowering employees with work arrangements that promote productivity, work-life balance, and collaboration
- Competitive salary and benefits
About the Employer:
Oceanbox is a SaaS company currently in the scale-up phase, offering a unique software service for modeling and visualizing ocean currents in coastal areas. Specifically, our platform enables users to conduct emission simulations quickly and easily, thereby providing valuable insights into how particles like lice, viruses, and other materials spread through ocean currents.
So far, we’ve successfully developed a working model for the Norwegian coast, and now, we are scaling our solution globally. As a result, joining Oceanbox offers a rare opportunity to be part of an exciting international journey.
Based in Tromsø, Norway, Oceanbox has a team of seven employees. Notably, our oceanographers are currently located in Trondheim and Bergen. We foster a flexible, autonomous work environment, which empowers our team to drive the company’s growth in meaningful ways.
About Oceanbox:
Homepage: https://oceanbox.io
News: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanbox-io/