IT - Team lead DevOps

With more than a hundred years of experience, Aibel is a leading supplier within the oil, gas and offshore wind industries. We offer our customers optimal and innovative solutions within engineering, construction, modifications and maintenance throughout the project's life cycle. Exciting, right?

We are now looking for a IT Team lead who can contribute to Aibel's exciting journey in the ongoing energy transition.

Aibel is strengthening our IT organisation by establishing a new unit with responsibility towards our cloud development platform and its services. We are looking for someone that will lead a team of developers where you must have a keen interest in further enhancing the agile developer experience on our DevOps platform. Your insight into new trends and existing knowledge will create a clear strategy, delivering on new initiatives and deliverables both internally in IT, and towards engineering end-users. If you are to succeed you must have understanding and experience in managing services on Azure and be comfortable with taking architectural decision together with your team.

The position is part of our Application Management leadership where the role enables you to work closely with cross functional teams and have frequent contact with business stakeholders.

We are looking for you that are triggered by your own, and your teams' development where you are passionate about digitalizing on cloud technology in an exciting sector with great opportunities for hands on achievements. Your team will be the engine of innovation where change is a part of the culture and way of working.

Your responsibilities:

• Develop the area in accordance with strategy and business demands while actively monitoring relevant technology and chasing improvements.
• Draw up a vision, anchor a strategy and deliver on a roadmap for DevOps in Aibel.
• Participate in discussions on IT architecture, own and drive our development platform, including governance and standards.
• Manage and motivate a staff of highly skilled IT professionals, including ensuring necessary professional development, hereunder budget responsibility.
• Collaborate and communicate with other stakeholders and ensure a companywide buy-in of new cloud services.
• Coordinate troubleshooting, maintenance and efficient user support for developed solutions.
• Ensure that product testing is carried out within established procedures.
• Contribute to improved competence, transfer of experience, best practice and focus on continuous improvements.

Qualifications and personal characteristics:

• Master or Bachelor in Information technology, engineering, economy or similar. Relevant experience may compensate for lack of formal qualifications.
• Excellent knowledge of emerging technologies and trends and great analytical and technical skills with at least 3 years of experience with development tools and technologies, hereunder MS Azure, Kubernetes, React, GitHub etc..
• At least 5 years of experience and expertise in IT; especially hands-on with Agile Development methods and DevOps principles.
• Management experience and/or management education and experience with IT project management is an advantage.
• Relevant experience within the oil, gas, renewables sector is an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in both Norwegian and English - verbally, presentations and written work.

Become our colleague:
Aibel offers many career opportunities. With us, you can work across disciplines, build competence and develop your own potential. This contributes to a vibrant and engaging work environment. We also offer flexible working hours, and our welfare clubs have a wide range of activities and training opportunities for all our employees.

Our value program "We Care" - encourages us to be responsible, visionary, open and flexible. The values reflect the attitudes we have at work and set the standard for how to achieve our goals. We value inclusion, equality and diversity, and encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of age, gender, functional ability and ethnicity.

Our overall strategy is to gradually develop our business from oil and gas towards renewable solutions. Because we view our social responsibility as a fundamental prerequisite, sustainable development is a natural part of our guidelines, work procedures and decision-making processes.

Can you identify with our values, and are you inspired by our vision? Then we would like to hear from you!

Application deadline and contact information:
For questions regarding the position, please contact: Section Manager Application Management, Nils-Kristian Midttveit, +4799475709.
Work Place: Bergen, Oslo (Asker) or Haugesund
Application deadline: 20.02.2022