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.
We provide advanced oceanographic modeling services through a cutting-edge SaaS platform, delivering API-driven mapping tools directly in the web browser. Our backend is powered by a scalable cloud architecture and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure connected to fast, multi-petabyte storage.
Why join us?
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. 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.
What you’ll do:
- 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
To apply, you should have solid experience with:
- 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)
Nice-to-have experience:
- NixOS and Talos
- Ceph (Rook)
- HPC administration
Bonus skills:
- GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD)
- Networking, control planes, and InfiniBand
- Observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Replication, redundancy, HA, backup
- Message queues (AMQP)
We offer:
- A creative and collaborative learning environment.
- A well-established technological framework.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- 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/