Automation and DevOps Engineer at SAAB Grintek

Your role

• Evaluate current requirements practices in SGD with the goal of reducing & optimising documentation required by our engineering projects
• Research methods and tools for establishing requirement/design/verification baselines
• Align requirements baseline outputs to customer standards requirements e.g. RTCA DO-178, RTCA DO-254, ARP4754A, EN9100
• Design and maintain continuous deployment pipelines using Jenkins and handle the integration with the other development environment tools.
• Establish an agile software development environment covering continuous integration, continuous reviewing, continuous testing, continuous delivery and continuous deployment.
• Design and maintain a problem reporting system in Jira that keep track of problems experienced during development of hardware, software, test benches and mechanics.
• Collaborating with developers to make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices.
• Set-up, manage and maintain a LDAP server/database used for user authentication on all development environment tools.
• Collaborate with the SAAB Global for IaaS and CaaS deployments
• Providing direct server support during various operations such as deployment, licensing, license server maintenance and general production.
• Configure, maintain and store images of build environments.
• Perform script development, maintenance and updates.
• Assist in developing roadmap for DevOps environment and way of working.
• Learn and gather new technologies and related tools to introduce to the company in order to grow the agile development environment.
• Report generating and building dashboards for DevOps.
• Assist in maintaining and migrating legacy tools like CVS, SVN, PVCS and Track.
• Contribute to the Cyber Security requirements.

Your profile

Required knowledge:

Requirements Management

• Analysis, Traceability and Validation at various phases of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Requirements management in an Agile/Scrum based context
• Requirements management for safety critical applications (RTCA)
• Requirements management of security critical applications
• Proven experience with Formal Requirements Management Tools
• Tracking requirements evolution from Customer concept to implementation and verification.
• Industry best practice knowledge e.g., RTCA/DO-178, RTCA/DO-254, ARP4754A
• Development Artifacts in Software Lifecycle Phases Structure e.g. SSDD, SSS, SSD, SRS, HRS, HDD, ICD’s, HSID, SDD, STD
• Requirement analysis and traceability
• Integration with verification phase – VCRI/VCRM/RTEM etc.
• Software tools supporting requirements management
• Doors (9.7 + Next)
• ERP Tool Knowledge (IFS Beneficial)
• DevOps (Continuous Integration / Continuous Development)
• Business Intelligence tools
• SQL & MySQL Database experience
• Agile team management tools
• Strong software development skills
• Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins and Artifactory experience required
• Containerized Environment experience beneficial (Docker Container / PodMan / K8s)
• Profound knowledge in automation scripting languages
• Knowledge of IaaS and IaC beneficial

Practical Experience:

• 10+ years industry experience in the Product Development domain (beneficial)
• Experience with Enterprise Engineering (beneficial)
• Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Continuous Integration experience

Person Specification:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential for interacting with stakeholders, documenting requirements, rolling out of correct and centralized approach including training to teams)
• Self-starter, professionalism, strong work ethic, situational leadership skills
• Strong analytic, critical thinking and problem-solving skills (essential to understand complex systems and break down requirements into manageable components)
• Collaborating in team settings
• Well structured, organized working methods, thorough and quality orientated

Competencies:

• Proficient in Requirements Management
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Proficient in CI/CD & DevOps tools
• Proficient in IaC/IaaS tools
• Data analysis, Automation and production process integration, Automated testing
• Diagnosing malfunctioning automated systems
• Technical skills: familiar with software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)

Qualification:

• B.Eng. (Electronic / Computer Engineering) or Computer Science Degree or related
• Honours and Master will be an advantage