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IT/DevOps consultant
Cloud/Solution Architect
Board gamer and sci-fi fan
Ponderer of life mysteries
House owner and Handyman

CV

Tech
Azure
Cloud Foundry
Crap to Cloud
DevOps
Evaluating CICD solutions
Github Actions set-env deprecation
Initial contact with Swift + Vapor
Inner source
Jenkins Show Pw Hack
Security tools
So what to do when you have a fresh laptop?

Management
The art of communication
The value of certifications
Volunteer work

Terran
Corona - Covid 19
Rules of Speaking
There be blog?

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Magnus Kirø

Delivery Manager | SRE | DevOps Engineer | Cloud & Solution Architect
Basbergveien 10b, 3114 Tønsberg, Norway
📧 magnuskiro@gmail.com | 🌐 www.magnuskiro.no
💼 LinkedIn Profile | 🐙 GitHub


👨‍💻 Summary

Magnus is an experienced Delivery Manager with a strong technical foundation in cloud platforms, DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering. Through roles as an MSP team lead, general manager, and technical advisor, he has built extensive experience in strategic delivery management, account development, and regulatory compliance.

He thrives at the intersection of technology and business, bridging the gap between complex engineering deliveries and his clients’ strategic goals. Magnus is a pragmatic driver who combines technical depth with business understanding to deliver stable, modern, and scalable cloud solutions. He is recognized for his ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage stakeholders, and drive digital transformation with a continuous focus on value, security, and operational efficiency.


💼 Work Experience

Knowit

Solidify AS

Dfind Direction / Dfind Consulting

Capgemini Norge

Netlight AS

Previous Experience


🏗️ Professional Projects

An overview of my professional consulting engagements, cloud architecture designs, and development projects throughout my career.

SRE / Platform Engineer Jun 2026 - Present

Tet Digital

Tet Digital provides critical transit systems (ticketing and travel information) for public transport authorities such as Ruter, Skyss, and AtB. As SRE, I am responsible for platform stability and technical guidance for their microservices. I lead the deployment of SLI/SLO frameworks, improve monitoring in Datadog, manage GraphQL proxy/routing layers (Cosmo), and assist in Java/Kotlin migrations and Kafka stream optimizations.

SRE Kubernetes Kotlin Datadog GraphQL Kafka Cosmo Router Rust Claude Code

Delivery Manager Nov 2025 - Present

Nordic Financial Cert (NFCert)

NFCert operates in a compliance-heavy financial market with strict security demands. As Delivery Manager, I hold administrative responsibility for delivery tracking, account growth, and strategic team leadership. I coordinate security platform modernization, ISO 27001 compliance frameworks (via Vanta), modern IAM/SSO implementations, and automation of operational security routines.

Delivery Management Security Compliance ISO 27001 IAM / SSO AWS Account Growth

Delivery Manager Oct 2025 - Present

Knowit

Knowit is a Nordic technology firm helping companies with digital transformation. As Delivery Manager, I lead cloud projects, coordinate MSP delivery teams on AWS, follow up on customer accounts, work strategically to build Knowit Managed Services for Cloud in Norway, and contribute as an AWS platform engineer and solution architect. I hold technical and personnel responsibility for the team.

AWS Cloud Sovereignty Platform Engineering Leadership Sales Architecture

Platform Engineer Jan 2025 - Dec 2025

House of Control (Visma)

Assisted the platform team in reducing technical debt and upgrading system infrastructure on AWS (ECS/Kubernetes). Focused on performance, security posture, migrating CI/CD to GitHub, and application automation.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Prometheus Grafana Security

Business Area Manager Apr 2024 - Sep 2025

Solidify AS

Responsible for technical delivery and growth in the Norwegian market within DevOps, Azure, Platform Engineering, and GitHub, as well as leadership, HR, and recruitment for the local team alongside consulting deliveries.

Leadership Azure GitHub Platform Engineering HR & Recruitment

System Operations Engineer Apr 2024 - Dec 2024

Hitachi Rail GTS Norway

Assisted the operations team for the new ERTMS signaling system in Norway. Designed and implemented operational routines, monitoring (Grafana/Prometheus), and performance tracking for the TMS application with 24/7 on-call coverage.

Kubernetes Grafana Prometheus vmWare Networking Operations

General Manager / DevOps Expert Sep 2022 - Apr 2024

Solidify AS

Established Solidify's office in Norway. Responsible for all administrative and strategic tasks such as finance, invoicing, recruitment, HR, and sales, in addition to direct technical delivery on DevOps and Azure projects.

Leadership Administration Finance DevOps Azure

GitHub Enterprise Specialist Mar 2024

Norsk Hydro

Advisor and technical expert during the migration of Hydro's GitHub Enterprise organization to GitHub Enterprise Managed Users (EMU).

GitHub Enterprise GitHub EMU IAM / SSO

Lead DevOps Jan 2022 - Aug 2023

Klaveness Digital

Responsible for CI/CD and cloud architecture for the CargoValue SaaS logistics solution. Managed Azure infrastructure, app configuration on Kubernetes (AKS), secrets management, shift-left security initiatives (DevSecOps), and build time optimization.

Azure AKS Kubernetes GitLab CI Terraform Helm DevSecOps

Payment Developer Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

Norwegian Air Shuttle AS

Developed and maintained payment and settlement solutions in Java/Spring and AWS (S3, IAM, CloudWatch) for flight ticket bookings and transaction processing.

Java Spring Boot AWS S3 Kafka Docker Jenkins

Fullstack & Cloud Developer Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

The Future Group

Analyzed and debugged the architecture of the Pixotope Cloud licensing system. Established local development environments for Swift/Vapor and resolved performance issues in the AWS runtime environment.

Swift Vapor AWS (ECS/ECR) Docker Compose

DevOps & Platform Specialist Apr 2020 - Aug 2020

Difa / Apotekforeningen

Assisted the platform team with automation, backlog grooming, and stabilization of deployment pipelines for the new national pharmacy platform Eik.

Cloud Foundry ELK Stack Bitbucket DevOps Scrum

Team Lead DevOps & Plattform Jul 2019 - Mar 2020

Gjensidige Forsikring

Led a platform team of 9 people (solution architects, cloud architects, DevOps developers, and operators). Responsible for migrating developer tools and application platforms from on-prem to Azure, and negotiating cloud infrastructure contracts.

Leadership Azure Puppet Terraform Jenkins Kubernetes Splunk

DevOps Engineer Mar 2018 - Jun 2019

Gjensidige Forsikring

Improved developer workflow through standardized pipelines (Heimdall framework) on Windows Server infrastructure and Jenkins with Docker agents for atomic builds.

Jenkins Docker Puppet Powershell Splunk vmWare

Fullstack Developer Jan 2017 - Mar 2018

Sparebank 1 Utvikling

Developed self-service card solutions for debit and credit cards using distributed Java backend and React/Redux frontend on OpenShift.

Java Spring React Redux OpenShift Docker

Fullstack / DevOps Engineer Nov 2016 - Jan 2017

KUDOS

Cleaned up infrastructure on AWS (S3), implemented REST commenting features in Java backend, and optimized performance in AngularJS frontend for photo sharing app.

Java AWS S3 AngularJS MongoDB PostgreSQL

Frontend Developer Aug 2016 - Oct 2016

Schibsted Products & Technology

Assisted the privacy team with building the user portal aboutme.schibsted.com in preparation for the GDPR implementation.

Node.js JavaScript AWS SauceLabs GDPR

Integration & System Developer Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

Reisegiganten

Developed integration setup and import engine for travel offers from external APIs in Perl (Catalyst) and AngularJS against MySQL/Redis, in an automated Docker/Chef environment.

Perl Catalyst AngularJS MySQL Redis Docker Chef

System Developer Aug 2014 - May 2015

Næringslivsnettverket KiD

Developed password reset features, event displays, and profile management in Java (PlayFramework/Scala) and Knockout.js on a Linux webserver.

Java PlayFramework Knockout.js Scala MySQL

🎓 Education & Courses

Education

Courses


🏆 Certifications


🛠️ Technical Skills

Category Technologies & Tools
DevOps / CI/CD / SRE GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Concourse, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Helm
Cloud / Infrastructure AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch), Azure (AKS, Azure AD, Networking, App Services), Cloud Foundry, VMware
Runtime / Containers Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose, OpenShift, Cosmo Router
Monitoring / Logging Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK Stack, Icinga, Loggly
Programming Languages Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, Python, Perl, JavaScript, Bash/Shell, Go, PowerShell, Swift (Vapor), PHP, Scala
APIs / Databases GraphQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, SQLite, Kafka (Aiven)
Methodology & Process SRE, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Inner Source, ITIL, PRINCE2

🤝 Volunteer Work & Side Projects


#PowerHack2014 2014

DemoSteinkjær, KraftKamp.no

Participant and developer in the KraftKamp.no hackathon project, with open-source code published on GitHub.

Hackathon Open Source GitHub

Kodekollektivet 2014 - Present

Kodekollektivet.no

Developer blog and technical collaboration project for sharing articles, experiences, and experimenting with new technologies.

Blog Collaboration Web Development

Student Media in Trondheim 2013 - 2015

Studentmediene

IT Lead and developer. Hosted and developed the technical infrastructure for Student Media websites and publications.

Leadership Infrastructure System Administration Git