Senior Infrastructure Engineer – AI‑Ready Platform Infrastructure

Salary Competitive

Join Kongsberg Digital — Shaping the Future of Industry Through Cutting-Edge Digital Twin Technology.

Kongsberg Digital is an industrial software company shaping the future of work by changing how organisations design, operate, and maintain complex industrial assets. We deliver digital platforms and software solutions that help heavy‑asset industries make better decisions using data, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence.

Our core offering is the Industrial Work Surface – a unified, AI‑enabled platform that contextualises data from across the value chain and supports workflows spanning planning, operations, maintenance, and optimisation. We serve customers across energy, utilities, maritime, and other asset‑intensive industries where reliability, safety, and efficiency are critical.

Kongsberg Digital is part of the KONGSBERG group, a global technology leader with a long heritage of delivering mission‑critical solutions. Backed by this foundation, we build scalable, secure, and high‑quality digital products used in production‑critical environments worldwide.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join the Platform team within our Industrial Intelligence product area. You will play a key role in designing, building, and operating a modern, cloud‑native, AI‑ready platform that supports data‑intensive and AI‑enabled services in production.

This is a hands‑on senior engineering role with high autonomy and ownership. You will work closely with product, data, and software engineering teams to ensure the platform is reliable, scalable, secure, and easy to operate over time. The role is intended for engineers who are motivated by long‑term platform evolution and building strong foundations for future AI‑driven capabilities.

Key responsibilities

Platform infrastructure

  • Design, build, and operate cloud‑native infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms

  • Provision and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates)

  • Operate and optimise Kubernetes platforms (AKS) in production

  • Own platform reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency

  • Share responsibility for platform stability and operational health, contributing to prevention, analysis, and continuous improvement

  • Maintain clear, practical technical documentation and operational runbooks

Kubernetes & container platforms

  • Manage container orchestration using Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and network configuration

  • Package and deploy workloads using Helm

  • Troubleshoot platform‑level issues related to containers and orchestration

  • Support data‑intensive platform components and stateful services at infrastructure level

AI‑ready & data‑intensive workloads

  • Enable AI‑ready platform capabilities for inference‑heavy and data‑intensive services

  • Support GPU‑enabled workloads where required, including scheduling, isolation, and cost awareness

  • Design platform patterns suitable for high‑throughput and low‑latency services

  • Work closely with data and application teams to translate workload needs into robust platform solutions

Monitoring, observability & operations

  • Implement and maintain monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, or similar tools

  • Build and evolve logging and telemetry pipelines to improve operational insight

  • Reduce operational noise and improve system understanding through telemetry‑driven analysis

Security & platform guardrails

  • Apply security‑by‑design principles at platform level, including IAM, RBAC, network policies, and workload isolation

  • Provide default platform capabilities for logging, traceability, and controlled access

  • Ensure platform safeguards are pragmatic, scalable, and non‑blocking

CI/CD & automation

  • Integrate platform capabilities with CI/CD and GitOps workflows

  • Experience with tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Argo CD, or Flux

  • Promote automation‑first approaches across platform operations

Required experience & skills
  • Strong experience operating cloud‑native platforms in production

  • Solid hands‑on expertise with Kubernetes and Azure

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code

  • Good understanding of platform operations, automation, and observability

  • Ability to write maintainable automation scripts (PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar)

  • Strong problem‑solving skills and a collaborative mindset

  • Fluency in English, written and spoken

Desirable experience
  • Experience supporting AI or ML workloads in production

  • GPU workloads on Kubernetes

  • Exposure to GitOps, service mesh (e.g. Istio), or hybrid infrastructure

  • Background from industrial, enterprise, or regulated environments

Work model: Hybrid (minimum 3 days per week in the office at Fornebu)

Diversity & Inclusion:
At Kongsberg Digital, we celebrate diversity and strive for inclusivity. We strongly believe that different perspectives and backgrounds drive innovation and contribute to our success. We actively promote a culture of inclusiveness that values and respects every individual, providing equal opportunities for all our employees. Together, we will create a workplace where every game-changing employee can shine and seize equal opportunities.

[Note to Recruitment Agencies:]

KDI occasionally partners with recruiting agencies for specific roles. To ensure compliance we work with a limited number of preferred suppliers who follow an agreed process for vetting and representing KDI in the external market. KDI will not accept unsolicited candidates or be liable to pay associated fees unless terms are agreed with our Procurement team prior to any work being carried out.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Pension plan
Pension plan

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

Maternity / paternity leave
Maternity / paternity leave

Near public transit
Near public transit

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

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Working at
Kongsberg Digital

At Kongsberg Digital, our mission is to transform the world’s most complex and asset-intensive industries through world-leading, AI-powered digital twin technology. As a pioneer in industrial digitalization, we provide a comprehensive suite of software solutions that empower organizations to manage the full lifecycle of their assets—more efficiently, safely, and sustainably than ever before. The industry is on the cusp of a digital revolution—and we’re leading the charge. From early adoption of AI to building trusted partnerships with some of the world’s largest industrial players, we are redefining how work gets done. With domain expertise baked into every line of code and a high-calibre team united by a clear mission, we’re not just keeping pace with change—we’re setting the standard. As we expand rapidly across the Middle East and Africa, deepen our end-to-end offerings, and push the boundaries of AI, now is the perfect time to join a company that’s growing fast, thinking bold, and delivering real impact.

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