Senior Infrastructure Engineer – AI‑Ready Platform Infrastructure
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.
- Department
- Product
- Locations
- Fornebu
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment level
- Professionals
Fornebu
OUR POWER IS CURIOSITY, CREATION AND INNOVATION
We believe you love to experiment, challenge the established, co-create, develop and cultivate. Together we can explore new answers to today’s challenges and future opportunities, and talk about how industrial digitalisation can be a part of the solution for a better tomorrow. We believe that different perspectives are crucial for developing gamechanging technology for a better tomorrow. Join us in taking on this challenge!