About FirstVet:

FirstVet is the first truly digital veterinary clinic. We let pet owners meet with licensed veterinarians via their mobile or computer. But we don't stop there – we've expanded to include an E-commerce platform and a pharmacy, offering a comprehensive solution for pet owners. Our solutions contribute to a more balanced and better functioning care process for all parties. In order to facilitate FirstVet’s continuous international growth, we’re strengthening our tech team in Stockholm with a DevOps Engineer. If you're passionate about how you can contribute to shaping the future of animal health care, join us at FirstVet, where you can make a real impact.

The role:

In this role, you will maintain a cross-team collaboration, with a focus on driving technical solutions from start to completion. Right now, our company is in the midst of a growth phase, particularly in enhancing our technological infrastructure. Therefore, we are working on its scalability, where you will play a key part. Additionally, you'll be tasked with establishing best practices for building and deploying pipelines and provisioning resources.

Your responsibilities:

• Ensure that we have the infrastructure, tooling, and delivery pipelines in place that allow the teams to develop and operate our services in an efficient way

• Continuously strive to make our infrastructure more available, secure, stable, and scalable across multiple regions

• Make sure that we have good metrics, monitoring, and alerting in place

• Develop and improve our CI/CD pipelines as well as other automation tasks

• Share best practices and spread knowledge to the other members of the team

The person we are looking for:

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with a collaborative mindset, demonstrating a strong ability to work with cross-functional teams to enhance processes and ensure the delivery of dependable infrastructure. The ideal candidate is used to taking ownership of tasks and proactively identifying opportunities for automation and optimization. Further, we believe you are adaptable, and equipped with robust problem-solving skills to efficiently troubleshoot and resolve complex issues.

Desired qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience working with cloud infrastructure and automation

• Experience from fast-growing and/or scale-up tech companies, where rapid iteration and scaling infrastructure are common challenges

• Previous experience in working with cloud-based environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Experience with infrastructure as code frameworks such as Terraform, Pulumi or similar

• Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines

• Programming/scripting skills in a programming language such as Python, JavaScript/Typescript, PHP and Bash

• Good understanding of container and orchestration technology such as Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes

• You understand the value of collaboration and partnership within a team.

• Fluency in English, written and spoken.

What we offer:

At FirstVet, we offer a stimulating environment where you’ll get to thrive and develop. You’ll get the chance to be part of a team that values collaboration, innovation and growth, and of course, while having fun along the way. We offer a highly flexible work environment with a lot of collaboration, interesting projects and access to a wide amount of data. Apart from the above-mentioned, it goes without saying that an interest in animals is highly desirable. We’re a pet-oriented organization and it’s not unusual to run into our office dogs or for a cat to join our Hangout calls!