Head of Container Automation

Job ID: 2848

We are looking for an ambitious leader for Container Automation to Platform Engineering, who will work with other engineering team leads, to build the hearth of our Nordea Internal Delivery Platform. Designing, building and automating our Kubernetes clusters in Nordea. Both on-premise and in our cloud environments.

About our team

Our role is to provide a scalable and secure container platform that seamlessly integrates on-premise and cloud environments, enabling accelerated application deployment and driving business agility across the company.

You will be leading a team of highly motivated engineers with devotion to technology and problem solving. The role requires to technically lead a team of senior engineers, while being hands on and develop/engineer yourself. The role also requires you to be able to come up with ideas and continues processes improvements, and improvements for how the team works. The role requires strong communication skills, the ability to create and execute strategy, and problem solving. 

You as the Leader, play a key role in developing and supporting your team members to reach their aspirations and unleash their full potential.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

What you’ll be doing

As the Leader for Container Automation, you'll play an important role driving and supporting the Nordea Technology Strategy and journey together with highly skilled colleagues. As a lead you will together with your unit be responsible for building the end-to-end Container orchestration and architecture, which enables Nordea to move towards a more modern automated landscape and ways of working.

 With focus on:

• Container orchestration
• Platform Engineering
• Cloud enablers within Kubernetes
• Technology driver and lead
• People leadership and development

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you have:

• Ability to lead other people and make them follow towards the common objectives, experience working regularly with stakeholders (management)  
• Hands-on experience and understanding the principles behind Container, DevOps, Blueprinting, Development lifecycle and Lean
• Strong knowledge of Container technologies e.g., Kubernetes, docker, ArgoCD, CNI, Ingress/Egress
• Good understanding of automation tools e.g., Tekton, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, AWX
• Good understanding of cloud and on-prem providers e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, VMWare

Your background and skills include: 

• You are solution driven
  
• Self-confident but humble
  
• Initiative and innovative
• Have passion for automation and providing secure self-service capabilities

As the Leader you are expected to and have a crucial role in:

• Creating purpose by translating strategy into operational and actionable plans to showcase how we create value for our customers and impact business priorities.
• Empowering people by identifying individual development opportunities to support growth and encourage them to share own ideas, concerns and learnings.
• Driving performance by recognising individual contributions and collective victories to maintain a healthy balance through measurable goals and clear priorities for each team member.
• Developing teams by nurturing a dynamic team culture, that emphasises trust and respect to ensure that everyone understands their unique value and contribution.
• Fostering inclusion by creating equal opportunity through curiosity about all aspects of diversity in your team to evaluate habits and perspectives on a continuous basis.

What we offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 06/05/2026.

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

• Preliminary CV selection
• Phone conversation with the recruiter
• Online interview with the hiring leader
• Background check

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Only for candidates in Sweden: ​For union information, please contact finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACONordea@nordea.com.