Job Description

Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.

Your role

At Saab, we operate in an increasingly complex and rapidly evolving security environment where software, cloud, automation, and digital infrastructure are becoming critical enablers of operational superiority and mission readiness. As Saab continues its international growth journey, technology plays a central role in strengthening resilience, accelerating innovation, and enabling next-generation defense capabilities across all operational domains.

Modern defense systems demand scalable, secure, and resilient digital platforms capable of operating across cloud, edge, and disconnected environments. The ability to rapidly develop, integrate, deploy, and evolve software-defined capabilities is becoming a decisive factor in maintaining technological and operational advantage.

Within Saab Technology, we are accelerating:

• Digitalization of products and engineering workflows
• Cloud-native and software-defined platforms
• Cyber-secure and resilient operational environments
• Advanced capabilities within automation, AI, edge computing, and space technologies
• Modern engineering cultures built on collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement

As a Tech Lead, you will play a key role in driving the technical direction and execution of mission-critical platforms and engineering initiatives. You will combine deep technical expertise with leadership, coaching, and strategic thinking to help teams build secure, scalable, and operationally resilient solutions.

You will work closely with engineers, architects, product owners, security specialists, and operational stakeholders to ensure that Saab’s platforms and software capabilities meet the highest standards of security, performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Leading the technical direction for cloud-native and mission-critical platform solutions
• Driving architecture, design decisions, and engineering best practices across teams
• Enabling secure, scalable, and resilient Kubernetes-based environments across public, private, hybrid, and edge infrastructures
• Supporting and mentoring engineers within DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, and software development practices
• Driving automation and modern software delivery through CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Collaborating with architects, security teams, and operational stakeholders to ensure alignment between technical solutions and operational requirements
• Identifying technical risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies while proactively driving mitigation strategies
• Contributing to platform modernization, operational readiness, and long-term technical strategy
• Supporting the development of reusable platform capabilities, golden paths, and engineering standards
• Ensuring that systems are designed for scalability, observability, maintainability, and security from the ground up

You will be part of the Container & Cloud Platforms section within Common Tech - a specialized organization responsible for enabling modern digital platforms, cloud capabilities, and strategic technology transformation across Saab.

Your profile

You are a senior engineer or technical leader with strong experience in cloud-native technologies, platform engineering, and modern software delivery. You enjoy combining hands-on technical work with leadership and coaching, and you are motivated by solving complex challenges in high-impact and mission-critical environments.

You are proactive, collaborative, and structured in your way of working, and you thrive in environments where technical excellence, operational reliability, and teamwork are essential.

You understand how to balance:

• innovation and governance
• speed and resilience
• autonomy and standardization

…within large-scale and security-sensitive organizations.

Required skills and experience:

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern platform engineering
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using technologies such as Terraform or Ansible
• Experience working with public cloud and hybrid cloud environments
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and logging platforms such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience leading technical initiatives and guiding engineering teams
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities
• Fluent in Swedish and English, both written and spoken
  

Additional valuable experience:

• Experience from defense, aerospace, telecom, industrial, or other mission-critical industries
• Knowledge of Zero Trust architectures and cloud security principles
• Experience with edge computing or disconnected operational environments
• Agile software development and scaled engineering organizations
• Experience with networking, storage, virtualization, and resilient infrastructure platforms
• Understanding of software factories, platform ecosystems, or developer enablement strategies
  

What you will help enable:

• Faster and more secure software delivery
• Operationally resilient digital platforms
• Cloud-to-edge capabilities for future operational systems
• Scalable engineering environments supporting innovation at speed
• Modern platform foundations enabling Saab’s future digital and operational capabilities

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defense and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 28,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defense capability of several nations. Read more about us here