Cloud Engineer - Car Cloud Platform Development

We are now looking for a Cloud Engineer - Software Digital within Car Cloud Platform Development on the behalf of our client, Volvo Cars.

Cloud Engineer – Software Digital, Car Cloud Platform Development

Background:

Everything we do at Volvo Cars starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable, and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones, and the people around them.

What we offer:

The Car Cloud Platform organization within Connected Vehicle Solutions develops and maintains cloud services globally to contribute to the overall connected experience for our customers. We build, provide and operate a highly secure run-time ecosystem for functions and applications serving our connected cars, and their users. We aim to optimize functional and organic growth by using standard cloud technologies with high level of synergies and re-use. With our car cloud solution, we provide cloud infrastructure, platform core & services to support software development lifecycle (DevOps) by providing tools for fast feedback & built-in quality.

What you´ll do:

You can work in an ever-evolving agile way of working where you will be part of an empowered product team that strives for continuous learning and improvement. You and your team are, among many other things, responsible for the DevOps of the ingress gateways globally to the car cloud platform clusters, serving all connected Volvo cars. Furthermore, the team is often used as a task force team for business-critical application or infrastructure development, and hence have a big variety of responsibilities.

You will collaborate with your Product Owner to ensure the right functionality is being developed and estimate the size and complexity of the work to be able to plan upcoming sprints. You will determine and maintain the technical design in our area within the given architectural guidelines.

Tech we use daily:

SW Languages: Java (Spring), Golang

Frameworks: Docker, Kubernetes, Spring, Istio

Infrastructure: AWS

Databases: Cassandra or similar (NoSQL), MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB

Middleware: Kafka, JMS, IBM MQ, MQTT

Tools: CI/CD Pipelines, GIT or similar

Test automation: Unit test frameworks, Component test frameworks

Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus

Architecture: Micro Service Architecture

Development methodology principles: gitOps, Scrum, DevOps

Automation: Python

Do you fit the profile?

    • We believe you have at least 5 years of experience with software development and a curious mind to explore challenges in securing a world class connected experience for Volvo Cars users.
    • You probably have a BSc degree or higher in computer science or equivalent.
    • Preferably you have experience with AWS, Java, Kubernetes, Istio, and have passion not only for application development but also for the Infrastructure side of Cloud Development, including configuration. We don´t expect candidates to know all our tech stack by heart, but we expect a willingness to learn and develop, and an ability to do it fast.

    • You will join a very strong team, and hence we expect you to be a team player and to enjoy solving problems together as a team working in the office. We expect that you will share your knowledge to develop your team members as well as to learn from them.

    • Previous experience in handling car-related information to the cloud, to cars, to mobile apps and to partners, is highly valued.
    • We also think you have understanding in agile development methodology principles and have worked in product teams.
    • Since Volvo Cars is a global organization, we see that you are fluent in the English language.
    • For you to fully enjoy this opportunity, we believe that you have a genuine interest of working and developing in a product area. You embrace teamwork, collaboration and are eager to learn and develop new competences.
    • We also expect you to be on top of technology evolution within software development and provide new ideas to continuously improve the product and our processes.

  • PLEASE NOTE!

    Volvo Cars require that an adequate background check has been completed prior to the start of the assignment, meaning that you, as the supplier, must have conducted the requested level/-s of background check as soon as possible after your candidate has been chosen for the assignment.

    If any deviations or discrepancies occur, the supplier should inform Ework and the candidate should not be moving forward in the procurement process.

    This particular assignment is marked as: “Sensitive”

    In the attached file/-s you will find info about the required background check/-s.

    Volvo Cars reserves the right to request evidence of completion of these checks according to their expectations for the duration of the contingent worker assignment at Volvo Cars.

    Ework offer to conduct necessary background check for a fee, please reach out for more information if interested.

    Start: ASAP

    End: 2026-12-31

    Location: Lund

    workload: 100%

    We will present candidates on an ongoing basis. If you are interested in the position, don´t hesitate to apply directly!

  • Locations: Lund
  • Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Docker, Git, Go, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSql, Oracle, Python, Scrum, Spring
  • Language: English, Swedish