Platform/Automation Engineer

Job Title

Platform/Automation Engineer

Role Summary

Design, develop, and operate CI/CD and DevOps platform services to support Nordic Semiconductor's R&D teams. The role covers build/test orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, test-farm administration, observability, and platform security.

The engineer will collaborate with product developers across multiple R&D sites and occasionally travel for cross-site projects.

Experience Level

Mid-level / Experienced (posting lists level as "Experienced").

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include evolving CI/CD capabilities, automating build and test workflows, and maintaining reliable platform infrastructure.

• Plan CI/CD evolution and evaluate or roll out tooling across the organization.
• Develop and maintain build, test, and release automation and orchestration.
• Administer and maintain hardware test farms and test nodes.
• Support developers on CI and platform-related topics and improve developer experience.
• Improve observability: collect and instrument metrics, logs, and traces.
• Harden pipelines and platform components for security (secrets, dependencies, DevSec practices).
• Operate cloud and on-premises infrastructure (examples: AWS, Azure, vSphere).
• Collaborate with product teams to prioritize automation and platform initiatives.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; concise list of key qualifications.

• Proven experience managing CI/CD and orchestration servers (examples: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with infrastructure and container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Proficient in Python for tooling and automation; able to develop Kubernetes services as needed.
• Experience operating cloud and on-prem infrastructure (AWS, Azure, vSphere) and applying security best practices.
• Experience improving observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and reliability monitoring.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills; ability to support and train developers.
• Experience with managing build/test node lifecycles and hardware test-farm operations.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in embedded or semiconductor development environments.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps tooling and secrets management systems.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree (MSc/BSc) in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar engineering program (as stated in the posting).

About the Company

Company: Nordic Semiconductor

Headquarters: Trondheim, Norway

Norwegian fabless semiconductor company that designs low-power wireless connectivity solutions and system-on-chips (SoCs) for IoT, including Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, Zigbee, LTE-M/NB-IoT, Wi‑Fi, and cloud services (nRF Cloud).