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You will work hands-on with an established Java and Spring application running on Kubernetes, ensuring reliable deployments, troubleshooting production issues and coordinating releases.\nYou enjoy troubleshooting, coordinating changes and taking responsibility for keeping production services running reliably.\nAbout WirelessCar\nWirelessCar empowers the future of mobility by connecting vehicles and delivering cutting-edge digital services. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Sweden, we have a strong global presence with offices in the U.S., China, Germany, India, and Japan, offering a truly global workplace with exciting opportunities for career growth.\nOwned by Volkswagen Group, today we connect over 18 million vehicles across 100+ countries and partner with leading OEMs, including Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen Group, Nissan, and Subaru.\nAbout the Role\nJoin us to keep core platform services of the largest automotive backend in the world reliable across both cloud and on prem environments. You will own the operational path from a successful build to a healthy deployment, coordinate releases, investigate alerts, manage configuration and database changes, and verify that services run as intended- without errors or repeated restarts.\nThe role also includes developing and supporting shared components used by other teams. You will work directly with an established Java application and the Spring framework when an operational issue or platform change calls for code.\nYour initial focus will be strongly operational, with hands-on work in Kubernetes, deployment pipelines, application troubleshooting and database operations. You will work closely with application, database and platform teams, investigating issues yourself and involving the right specialists when needed.\nThe environment includes established and newer platform capabilities, with consolidation being planned. You will help keep existing services running while supporting their continued improvement.\nYou will bring expertise that helps the team build its operational capability and become a go-to person in this area. Responsibility for the services and their delivery remains shared across the team. The role includes an on-call rotation of approximately one week every six weeks.\nYour Impact\nIn this role, you will:\nOwn the health of builds and deployment pipelines. Investigate failures, restore successful runs, and verify the deployed version and health of Kubernetes pods after each release.\n\nCoordinate releases of a modular core service that multiple teams contribute to. Work with those teams on updates, changes and hotfix deployments across staging environments. Follow the required change-ticket process for higher environments and combine related changes where appropriate.\n\nMaintain stage-specific configuration and coordinate certificate update deployments. Monitor certificate status, renew certificates when needed and initiate the required deployment tickets.\n\nMonitor services using logs, traces, metrics and alerts. Diagnose application, Kubernetes and database issues, working with platform teams when the cause lies outside the service.\n\nDevelop and support shared components for other teams, including database proxies, logging frameworks and telemetry components.\n\nCarry out or coordinate database migrations through deployment pipelines and support occasional AWS operations, including database sizing.\n\nKeep the platform maintainable and secure by reviewing Renovate updates, upgrading Java and Spring, and addressing vulnerable dependencies.\n\nMake targeted changes to Java services and shared capabilities, including dependency injection frameworks, feature toggles, caching, read/write routing and Kafka integrations, when needed to improve reliability or support a release.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nYou bring a software development background and enjoy the operational work that keeps applications reliable. You are comfortable working hands-on with established systems, investigating unfamiliar problems and learning from colleagues.\nYou work carefully, pay attention to detail and follow through to verify that changes have worked. You raise issues early, coordinate with others and help the team maintain a consistent level of quality.\nYou understand that other teams and users depend on these services. You communicate clearly, share knowledge and recognise when to solve an issue yourself and when to bring in additional expertise.\nYou'll bring\nHands-on experience operating production services in both on-premises and cloud environments, including CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, configuration changes, monitoring and incident troubleshooting.\n\nThe ability to diagnose failed deployments and unhealthy pods using logs, traces, metrics and alerts, and then verify that a fix has worked.\n\nExperience making safe database and application changes across multiple environments.\n\nWorking knowledge of Java backend services, Spring and dependency injection, with the confidence to investigate and change application code when necessary.\n\nExperience coordinating releases carefully and communicating clearly with application, database and platform teams.\n\nIt would be a plus if you have\nDeeper relational database expertise, including performance optimisation and operational maintenance.\n\nExperience operating containerised Java applications in Kubernetes.\n\nExperience with Jenkins and Concourse pipelines, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry or Kafka.\n\nExperience with dependency maintenance, Java and Spring version upgrades\n\nKnowledge of certificate management, TLS and PKI concepts\n\nWhy WirelessCar?\nAt WirelessCar, you’ll have the trust and freedom to take ownership, share ideas and make an impact. We value collaboration, curiosity and different perspectives, and believe people do their best work when they have room to grow.\nWhen you join WirelessCar, you can expect:\nFreedom to make an impact - Take ownership and help shape what we do.\n\nCollaboration across borders - Work with talented people and perspectives from around the world.\n\nRoom to grow - Develop your skills, explore new areas and learn along the way.\n\nSpace for ideas - Challenge the way we work and turn ideas into action.\n\nA supportive environment - We care about each other and create space to contribute, grow and do your best work.\n\nAt WirelessCar, we want you to enjoy what you do, feel proud of what you contribute and have fun along the way.\nWhat We Offer\nHealth & wellbeing - Wellness contribution and initiatives that support your health and wellbeing.\n\nWork-life balance - Generous holiday, additional time off through our working time reduction, and parental leave compensation.\n\nFinancial benefits - Competitive pension and insurance benefits, bonus and profit-sharing opportunities.\n\nTechnology & mobility - Flexible options for technology, as well as company car and bike leasing.\n\nA great everyday experience - Weekly breakfasts and opportunities to connect and spend time with colleagues.\n\nWhat to Expect\nWe aim to make our recruitment process clear and transparent, giving you a clear understanding of what to expect at each stage.\n1. Initial screening A first conversation with Talent Acquisition about your experience and motivation.\n2. Assessment & interview Depending on the role, you may complete an assessment and meet with the Hiring Manager or relevant team members.\n3. Role-specific interviews Further conversations to explore your skills and experience in more depth.\n4. Final steps References and, where required, background checks before moving forward with an offer.\n5. Offer If we both feel it’s the right match, we’ll discuss the final details and make you an offer.\nThe exact process may vary depending on the role and location.\nReady to Join the Ride?\nSound interesting? We’d love to hear from you!\nNo cover letter needed - just a few questions to help us better understand your experience, skills and motivation.\n\nPlease submit your application in English, our company language.\n\nA valid work permit is required.\n\nNot quite the right role for you? 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