Senior DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to take a central role in strengthening how we build, deploy, and operate software across STARK Group.

You will join a team at the core of our digital transformation, where the platform is not just infrastructure—but a critical enabler of how fast and safely our development teams can deliver value. The platform supports multiple business-critical solutions, and your work will directly influence their reliability, scalability, and speed.

In this role, you will help shape a platform that makes it easier for teams to do the right thing by default—through automation, clear standards, and robust engineering practices.

Your success in this role will be visible through the improvements you create in developer experience, delivery speed, and operational stability.

Over time, you will take ownership of key platform capabilities and mature them to a level where they are reliable, scalable, and easy to use for development teams across the organisation.

Within your first 6–12 months, you will, among other things:

• Enable faster validation and safer changes by introducing ephemeral environments based on pull requests
• Establish consistent and predictable release flows across environments
• Strengthen CI/CD capabilities by embedding automation, quality gates, and repeatable deployment patterns
• Improve observability, ensuring teams can monitor, trace, and react proactively to issues
• Enhance the security posture of the platform, including secure pipelines, secrets handling, and access control
• Drive adoption of GitOps-based deployment principles to increase consistency and transparency
• Improve the overall developer experience through self-service capabilities, templates, and clear standards
• Reduce operational complexity by replacing manual processes with scalable automation

You will work closely with development teams, architects, and operations in a matrix setup, and play a key role in aligning how platform capabilities are used and evolved across STARK Group.

You are an experienced platform engineer who is comfortable working in complex environments and turning ambiguity into structure and scalable solutions.

You bring a strong technical foundation, but just as importantly, you understand how platform decisions impact both development teams and business outcomes. You focus on building solutions that are reliable, scalable, and easy to use.

From a technical perspective, we expect that you:

• Have solid experience within DevOps, Platform, or Cloud Engineering
• Have worked hands-on with Kubernetes in production environments
• Are experienced with CI/CD and automation, and understand how to design reliable build and release flows
• Have worked with cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and Infrastructure as Code

In addition, it is an advantage if you:

• Have experience with GitOps principles and tooling
• Are familiar with observability practices (monitoring, logging, tracing)
• Have worked with incident handling and production environments

Overall, you bring a pragmatic approach to platform engineering and a focus on continuously improving how systems are built and operated. You collaborate well across teams and communicate clearly - helping others understand both the “why” and the “how” behind platform decisions. But, most importantly, you take ownership and follow things through until they create real value.

This is a role where your work will have direct and visible impact on how STARK Group delivers software. You will be part of a strategically important platform capability, where the ambition is to continuously improve how we build, deploy, and operate applications across the organisation.

By strengthening the foundation, you will enable development teams to move faster, with higher quality and greater confidence—ultimately supporting our broader digital transformation.

Group IT is at the heart of STARK Group’s digital transformation. We are replacing legacy systems and building a modular, scalable, cloud-native IT landscape that supports our international business.

You’ll be part of a modern engineering environment where platform capabilities, developer experience, and operational excellence are central to how we deliver value—and where your contribution will have a direct impact on business outcomes.

We will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the position and your options in STARK Group. You are welcome to contact Praveen Kumar, Senior Manager QA and Release Management, at [email protected]. for any specific questions regarding the role.  
 

STARK Group is a growing private equity-owned company with a strong legacy. STARK Group was first established in Denmark in 1896 and has today evolved into a leading European retailer and distributor of heavy building materials with net sales of approx. EUR 9 billion. With a dedicated team of more than 20,000 employees and +1,150 branches and distribution centres across the Nordics, Greenland, Germany, Austria and the UK, we live and breathe to serve professional craftsmen with heavy building materials all the way from the Austrian Alps to Tromsø, close to the Arctic circle and everywhere in between. STARK Group is committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050 across the entire business, is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, and works within fully 2030 validated science-based targets to keep global warming below 1.5°C At STARK Group IT, we believe in the richness diversity brings. We invite individual of all backgrounds to join us in creating and inclusive and welcoming environment. We believe in a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.  

STARK Group IT appreciates the interest of all candidates. However, we prefer to directly engage with individuals seeking employment opportunities. Therefore, we kindly request recruitment agencies, head-hunters, and third-party staffing services to refrain from contacting us regarding this job posting. All applications should be submitted directly by the candidates through our official application process. We value direct communication and look forward to reviewing your application.