Some random good news to share with Finnish residents before this incredibly long job announcement: due to our mild winter with no real freezing temperatures after a wet November, groundwater levels are at the highest they have been since the 1990s! Isn’t that great? So rest assured, we will get through this quarantine and chaos, and will get back to our normal lives, soon (and with plenty of our precious water on hand).

That being said: OP is Hiring! Our technical recruitment operations are not slowing down one bit, so please wisely consider making an intelligent switch to one of the most stable and healthy software companies, at the largest financial institution in Finland..

Are you a Finnish and/or English speaking expert in the ‘Big 5’ functions within DevOps, in either Helsinki or Oulu? (Test automation, Coding, CI/CD pipeline tooling, Cloud side, Coaching). Knowing what an iconic Finnish brand OP is, wouldn’t you like to be a part of building and fortifying our Developer culture now that our whole-company Agile operations are well underway?

Last year OP began a fascinating cultural transformation, embarking on an overall path towards Agile, dubbed OP Ketterä. While we continue getting closer and closer to ‘tribe’ and team autonomy, our focus has simultaneously headed towards technical alignment and sustainable development, building a real engineering and developer culture. Less a bank and more a technology house, we have already been seeing tangible improvements and increased efficiencies, while our internal cohesion and fulfillment is actually, joyous! Imagine that.

Our target here is on sustainable development by building true ‘craftsmanship’ on teams in this Agile environment. We want all of our developers to be interested in testing, in automation, in our DevOps culture, in our Engineering Ops culture, especially in our DEVELOPER culture. As one of many DevOps Coaches, you are going to pioneer this. Logistically, you will be given a new team of OP employees to get to know and coach, every 5 weeks, with a thorough description of your role further down this page.
 
Agile Coaches (of which we have hired dozens upon dozens since last year and are indebted to already), are on more of a non-technical side of the fence. This DevOps Coaching role, is the deeper technical side, by reinforcing end-to-end responsibility. You will be key stakeholders and drivers for the technical part of this OP Ketterä.

Less colorful narration, more technical description:
 
As Tech Lead - DevOps Coach (reporting to Head of Engineering and DevOps) you are an ambassador of DevOps at an Enterprise level. You will be responsible for building DevOps capabilities in several ways, showing a hands-on example of modern software engineering, showing how to build micro services and cover them with intelligent automated testing. Essentially, coding and coaching CI/CD and related practices. AWS infrastructure is one of the playgrounds while traditional infrastructure and integrations play a big role still too. To be successful in the role, one need to be hands-on as well as hands-off. Coding and building scalable and modern solutions for the development community is the hands-on part, technical coaching and taking the solutions into use together with teams is the hands-off part.
 
Main responsibilities and expected outcomes:

•Member of Engineering and DevOps team and acting as a specialist and owner for certain areas of technical agility
•Responsible for automating the development processes, continuous integration, continuous delivery and enabling these practices by coaching teams in these areas
•Responsible for automating tools, environments, infrastructure automation and implementations of various integrations (IaC) and coaching teams in these areas
•Responsible for good development practices such as code reviews, clean code (SOLID), code quality, feedback cycles, small batches and coaching teams in these areas
•Responsible for coaching technical key stakeholders deep into technical agility and related development practices into the world of DevOps and real-time data
•Responsible for spreading superior knowledge and building up competences among the development community

Other key stakeholders you will need to influence to achieve your objectives:

•Engineering and DevOps team
•All tribes and teams
•Entire development community and technical key stakeholders such as Developers, Lead Developers, Test Engineers, Tech Leads

Requirements, key management competencies, other operational competencies and critical success factors:

•Pro-active and rapid advancement
•Solution-based approach
•Ability to function independently and on a team
•Ability to perceive large abstract entities
•Ability to communicate with both tech and biz people
•Ability to recognize dependencies, issues and risks
•Eye on details and long-lasting solutions

Requirements, key professional competencies:

•Deep knowledge of Agile SW development and related practices and tools, DevOps, CI, CD
•Experienced in scripting and programming languages Python, Groovy, Shell, JavaScript, Java, Spring
•Experienced user of tools like GIT, Jenkins, Sonar, Robot, Maven, Gradle, JFrog, Elastic, Kibana
•Experienced in building tool integrations based on APIs in JIRA, Confluence, O365
•Experienced in building micro services and service virtualization (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
•Experienced in modern test automation, related practices, methods and tools

Wash Your Hands then Apply Now!
Please apply here with your English CV! And don’t wait, we will interview and hire the best candidates without delay : ) If you have questions about this position or what it's like to work at OP, please direct them in your cover letter, and they will be answered by one of our recruiters. If you are a solid fit, we will expeditiously set up a brief 'phone screen' with you where we will get to know you, qualify your background and match you to the particular position (or a different one if we find your background is more suitable for something else). After that, we will manage your candidate experience to be sure you are thoroughly prepared for every interview step you will participate in, and to be sure you are enjoying the process (and not too stressed out: a job search can be hard!) Keep in mind that you will eventually need to 'create a candidate profile' on our careers page, go through a coding assignment, psych assessment and background/medical check prior to employment. These won't take long, and are a necessary step considering the billions of euros our company manages for a majority of Finns :) For more information about data privacy, our principles of recruiting and our values, please explore our careers page https://op-careers.fi
 
Thanks, good luck, and stay safe out there!