Lead Platform Engineer

Are you ready to help us on our mission toward a greener more datadriven future At ElBits we aim for digital innovation that meets sustainability in a friendly wellfunded joint venture.

ElBits is an ambitious collaboration among Norways grid companies aimed at driving change in the power grid industry. We achieve this by integrating and standardizing data and developing digital products. Our goal is to create a digital infrastructure that the industry will increase grid capacity and efficiency as well as streamline and improve customer experiences.

With our partnerships deep industry expertise and access to critical data we are uniquely positioned to innovate and address the challenges of todays energy systems. By making data accessible and enabling collaboration we unlock the grid industrys potential. Together we contribute to solving one of the greatest challenges of our time the energy transition.

At Elbits we are building services that depend on stability scalability and fast iteration and this is where our platform team plays a key role. We want to build a platform as we go not spend two years in isolation building out capacity and support that we will never need.

Our buildasyougo platform ensures that our product teams have what they need to develop launch and operate our services safely and efficiently. This includes everything from designing and running our cloud platform in Azure to improving developer environments CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure.

Weve already launched two products with strict uptime requirements and more are on the way. Were now hiring a Lead Platform Engineer who can take an active handson role in shaping our platform landscape build a bridge between our products and bring capabilities to support ElBits journey moving forward. You will have a challenge to sink your teeth into balancing being agile and just in time with our delivery but also having a crossproduct perspective to ensure we build a scalable architecture for the future.

This role will be a key advisor to the Head of Technology and the Data Team helping shape and implement our technical strategy across product and enabling teams to ensure we build the right way and the teams get the support they need.

Responsibilities

As Lead Platform Engineer youll take ownership of this teams direction and objectives ensuring alignment across the tech organization. Youll engage closely with internal customers the product and data teams to create shared value coordinate priorities and foster a serviceminded collaborative approach.

Some examples of what youll be responsible for:

• Having a key technical leadership role in guiding and supporting our platform team of three engineers and shaping the platforms technical direction in close collaboration with the data team and the Head of Technology without line management responsibilities.
  
• Helping define and implement our technical strategy owning the Why behind platform decisions to ensure they align with our product priorities and business goals.
  
• Shaping and continuously improving our cloud platform CI/CD pipelines infrastructure and developer tooling to enable secure scalable systems and efficient product development.
  
• Thinking securityfirst and taking clear responsibility for platform and infrastructure security across environments and tooling.
  
• Improving reliability and observability particularly as more services go live with uptimecritical requirements.
  
• Collaborating with the product teams to understand their needs and translate them into scalable infrastructure solutions.
  
• Representing the platform perspective in architectural discussions helping ensure decisions align with longterm goals.
  
• Engaging directly with internal and external stakeholders including grid companies and product teams to ensure platform choices are grounded in real needs.
  
• Keep a thoughtful balance between operational autonomy and adherence to corporate governance and regulatory frameworks.

What makes you a great fit

Youre a seasoned Platform Engineer with experience in driving change and collaborating across a growing tech organization. You know how to scale systems and infrastructure and you care just as much about the people who use them. You enjoy combining technical depth with leadership and thrive in environments where things are still being defined.

We believe you have:

• A customerfirst mindset whether youre speaking with a grid company a product manager or a developer trying to launch something.
  
• A strong drive to understand and articulate how technical decisions support business objectives by asking the whys aligning your choices with the strategy and collaborating closely with product teams to deliver the best possible outcomes.
  
• Experience with CI/CD infrastructure as code (IaC) implementing security principles and developer tooling.
  
• Extensive experience in distributed platform development and cloud engineering being handson across multiple languages and having a practical mindset in selecting the right tool for each task.
  
• A track record of building and maintaining robust scalable and observable systems.
  
• Experience in influencing and executing a technical strategy across teams and systems.
  
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain tradeoffs clearly.
  
• A DevOps mindset with a strong focus on security and scalability and experience building tooling for multiple teams.
  

While not a requirement it is an advantage if:

• You have worked in or with startups or scaleups being comfortable making tradeoffs and building iteratively.
  
• You have experience with multiple cloud environments languages frameworks and varied infrastructure setups to make pragmatic and best scalable decisions.
  
• Have worked on services that tie systems together ranging from noncompiled languages like Python and Bash to more performanceoriented ones like Rust and Go.

We run our services on Azure with Kubernetes and IaC using Pulumi. Our backend is primarily written in Go and C# while JavaScript is used where needed for supporting tools or integrations. We are open to experimenting with new tools as we grow.

What can we offer

First we want to emphasize the opportunity to pursue new challenges and uncharted territories. This role will help us build a robust and crossfunctional platform environment and youll have the opportunity to work with truly amazing and competent colleagues making a real impact in Norways grid sector.

We also offer:

• A positive flexible and trustbased work environment.
• To have your work have a great social impact and make a difference in the energy sector.
• Great pension and insurance policies.
• Modern office centrally located at Rdhusgata in Oslo one of Europes fastestgrowing cities.
• Choice of equipment and other necessary tools to ensure you have everything you need to perform your role effectively.
• Great colleagues & social events.

What does the process look like

• Apply with your CV and contact information.
• If we find your profile interesting well schedule a short (30minute) conversation with our recruitment advisor.
• After that well set up a Meet & Greet with our Head of Technology.
• For the second interview well have a more indepth discussion about your experience and understanding of the role. Here we will inform you about our way of working and more about us. We conduct a short exercise through a personality test with Aon.
• The final chat will involve a meeting with our CEO.
• We do a couple of reference checks and send you an offer!
  

If you have any questions or other inquiries regarding this position feel free to send an email to .

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