Infrastructure Manager - Hiring Now

We are looking for a creative Infrastructure Manager to join our incredible team at Viaplay Group Sweden AB in Stockholm.
Growing your career as a Full Time Infrastructure Manager is a terrific opportunity to develop productive skills.
If you are strong in adaptability, people management and have the right personality for the job, then apply for the position of Infrastructure Manager at Viaplay Group Sweden AB today!

At Viaplay Group, we entertain millions of people every day through our streaming services, radio networks, TV channels and production studios. We believe in the power of content not just as a way of telling stories and touching lives, but also expanding worlds. We may have started in the Nordics, but we have a global mindset and consider ourselves to be the international entertainment provider. This means we’re constantly launching our Viaplay streaming service in new markets and on the lookout for talented, curious, driven professionals to join us on our journey. Right now, we’re searching for a Infrastructure Manager in our Stockholm office - are you ready to hit play on an exciting career change? The role As the Infrastructure manager you will lead the Content Infrastructure team, a team of 7 individuals (sysadmins and SREs) being their direct reporting manager and operational leader. You will, among other things:

• Lead the work of developing, improving, and implementing effective backlog planning.
• Support the group with what should be prioritized, follow-up and resource planning.
• Coach, develop and challenge your employees.
• Proactively build trust with stakeholders relevant to the group's work and goal achievement.
• Work with competence development and recruitment to ensure that the group has the right conditions.
• Be responsible for budget and resource distribution within your group.

Alongside with the experience as a manager you use your competence as system administrator when coaching, leading, and coordinating the team ensuring that we retain stable, up to date and modern systems to serve Viaplay Group’s numerous services ranging from internal development to customer facing streaming. The team works with all the pillars of infrastructure - Compute, Network, Storage, and Security - in a hybrid cloud environment. Their daily responsibilities lie within, but not limited to:

• Provide private cloud services through Proxmox and Hyper-V
• Manage multi-petabyte storage to several departments
• Build and manage the streaming platform where all Viaplay Sports and streaming TV channels originate

As a part of the process, we will also do a background check with all candidates. What we’re looking for We understand you may feel confident ticking certain boxes more than others and that’s why we always keep an open mind in our recruitment process. But, in order to thrive in this role, we do believe you’ll have at least some experience in the following: We believe that you have been working as a senior system administrator or infrastructure architect, and have a proven track record of successfully managing a sysadmin team. The tech knowledge is important, thus it is not necessary to be the expert as the expertise lies within the team. We rather see you as being a native leader with interest in mentoring and coaching being a good listener and advisor. When it comes to tech knowledge, we want you to have experiences within:

• Linux
• How to script, preferably in Python and/or shell.
• Knowledge about the OSI model.
• Knowledge about differences between block, object and file based systems.
• General knowledge in managing a various amount of different hardware.

We also think that you have a can-do attitude, a sense of humor and the ability to communicate and work humbly with others. Our offering We’ve got the basics covered (and then some)! 30 days of paid vacation every year, flexible work arrangements (that fully support hybrid set ups) and extra compensation on top of a parental pay lift. Your wellbeing matters. We have an attractive pension and insurance scheme with full health care coverage should you need it. A safe space to grow and up-skill with the freedom to try new things in autonomous teams. Our learning culture puts you in the driver’s seat of your own development, while always making sure you feel supported with regular knowledge-sharing sessions, technical training, mentorship opportunities and peer-to-peer networks. An innovative environment with Hack Days, not once, but twice a year. This week-long initiative allows you to think outside the box and deliver creative, technical solutions that (more often than not) go on to be implemented, either in our product or our ways of working. A genuinely international and diverse group of colleagues to connect with. We’re striving towards a 50:50 gender balance & we’re not far off - plus last time we checked, we have more than 60 different nationalities across our nine offices! Entertainment is what we love, and entertainment is what we do. So, unlimited access to Viaplay seems only fair for you to get to know the product - including live sports & pay per view events, new release movie rentals, linear channels and more. Hit play today If this feels like your kind of challenge, make sure you apply by attaching your CV here - you may also want to add your LinkedIn profile. Please don’t send us your application via email because we won’t be able to accept it. We do, however, welcome any questions you may have about this particular position. Want to learn more about who we are and what we do? Check out our careers page ( or follow us on Instagram ( We’re only ever a few clicks away.

Benefits of working as a Infrastructure Manager in Stockholm:

● Company offers great benefits
● Opportunities to grow
● Attractive package