Ahhh, kesäääää………..time to chill, unplug, sleep in, enjoy cottage life, lake life, slower life……until it’s time to get up early, go for a run, breathe it in. What’s next? How’s it going? Are your brain and heart and soul fulfilled, at work? Ok, granted its been a WEIRD Spring, and working from home can certainly cloud your fulfillment..

The fact that you’re here, glancing through this text, suggests that you are in the right frame of mind, to do something about your career! Good to see you. That’s what this is, right? It’s your pathway to growth, to feeding your mind and enriching your knowledge.

Thus far, you have worked as a software developer, architect, you’ve been an infrastructure specialist, a team lead. You know you are a technical manager in many ways, but you still want to <do>. Have you now become a Solution Centrist with a collaborative and diplomatic style of shaping, building, and working? If you are ready to continue your leadership and technical acumen at one of the biggest production environments in Finland, we are ready for you at OP : )
 
At the beginning of 2019, we embarked on an ambitious company-wide Agile transformation, which has gone swimmingly. Then we added an important twist to concentrate on building a developer culture, thereby bringing technical alignment to our goal of autonomy. Now we have introduced an innovative and culturally necessary DevOps culture to everything we do, reinforced by our OP Engineering Principles, and 70-20-10 ways of working.

70-20-10
70% working time, business as usual, new feature development for example. 20% improving operations, continuous improvement, and 10% learning and growing as humans, building up new competences. In this model, you have the time and mandate to make improvements, to learn during your work as well. These are values in place, encouraging all to foster learning, studying and growing.

A few other bottom lines:
We work incredibly well together, at all levels, with little to no actual bureaucracy
Our Values are working, People First is at the top
We are one of the few companies still growing and ambitiously hiring during Covid
Developers genuinely like working at OP
And: We Are Interviewing and Hiring In July!

 
No niin:
Next year we are going through a huge migration from Tieto to TCS. After we do this migration, we will focus heavily on seeing how all the services we provide perform best, and in an Agile and DevOps way. We will automate things, we will increase our pace and speed at development, we will build autonomous services for tribes. We have a whole bunch of ideas to pursue on a software defined network, with flexibility and innovation on many things to come. You will get to play an active role in that direction. For now though, we need one person who can take part in discussions with our enterprise architects and Tribes for solution planning, making sure what solutions we are acquiring or creating adhere to OP principles.

Part of your role is to facilitate that bridge between tribes and enterprise architects, to own this. We hope you have had experience in some infrastructure security, and from end user systems as well. You are someone who has delivered or managed or acquired solutions related to capacity, network, major platforms, etc. And solution centricity! This will be key. You need to be able and willing to say No, this is against our current practice (for example).

We want and expect that you have seen it before, you have the collaborative skills, you have diplomacy. Naturally you will need to get to know OP quickly, answering why do we do security like this, why do we enforce this on private cloud, and build up knowledge rapidly to be involved intimately in our development practices.

And when thinking about some of these important but generic objectives, while you are running operations and ongoing services, you have to have services running with good reliability in these services. Then of course cost efficiencies are key. Another is automation in the coming years, and of course agility. Having these services as stable as possible and cost efficient, in an agile manner. You can do this : )

You will work together with our key specialists and IT Area Lead. You will create the roadmap for supporting our tech choices and will steer the development and infrastructure in general. We work well together (as said) and have a pretty good sense of humor. Actually we have fun together too, how about that!

So in a nutshell, we need you to have these key skills:

Proper technical background
Collaborative attitude and personality, diplomatic too
Solution Centric
Entrepreneurial spirit
Proactive attitude
Confidence
English is ok!

Why would you want this job?
This is a very good opportunity to oversee the overall technical architecture at OP and what we are building and where we are going. Not just on one segment or on one Tribe, but all of them. This is tremendous variety, and you would be involved with quite many things.

Also, on the Finnish scale, this is one of the biggest production environments in Finland. We think it could be pretty interesting and exciting to be involved in this automation journey. Obviously we have very good resources to do things, so if you have a vision and know whats needed, and you are able to tell your story and justify this to others to do it, then you are able to get financing.

Requirements:
Excellent understanding of IT Infrastructure, including
Data communication
Servers
Workstations
Productivity services
Information security
Reliability engineering

10+ years of infrastructure experience, either from managing or delivering services, creating solutions, acquiring solutions, or being a part of defining a different solution. Not just capacity related private public cloud, but a whole set of services we will provide, private cloud, public cloud, on premises, mainframe is a big plus, networking, all major tech platforms.

Who are you
You have worked as Infrastructure Specialist and have moved into leadership
You have hands on experience, not just theoretical. You are primarily from finance, or then telecom etc where IT is an integral part of business
You have worked in a large and complex environment

Our Process this Summer:
Our recruitment team is working actively throughout July, so we will be setting up calls with you to get to know you! Then based on which week we are in, we will try to get you scheduled to speak with one of our Lead Developers or Competence Leads. After that, we will continue with our team interview(s) once people start returning to the office. In other words, its smart that you apply immediately! We will hire the best person we meet first. May the Best candidate win : )
 
Wash Your Hands and Apply Now:
Please apply here with your English CV. And as said, 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!
 
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