Elisa is continuously working on better network service level for all our customers. In the era of fast-growing extensive data transfers this requires fast and reliable networks and superior balancing and network operation skills. To master this, we need not only faster connection technologies but also better tools for our core network and things must be automated. This is where our EDN team steps in.

We are now looking for aSoftware Developerto work in one of our awesome software teams in network automation domain. If you are eager to grow your experience and learn from seasoned professionals, you might be the talent we are looking for.

Business area and the team

Our team is building a state-of-the-art platform for network automation. The platform provides tools for automating network installation, configuration and implementation. It also automates provisioning of new services and network operations.

Team consists of a dozen professionals, combining the best talents from network domain experts and software professionals. As our team really owns the product we can think of and decide solutions with short- and long-term impact. We follow agile development practices and are constantly improving our ways of working. We also keep the quality up, our code fresh and the technical debt very low by doing i.e. refactoring constantly.

Technologies

We’re working with modern software tools and DevOps practices. Our system is based on event-driven microservices architecture using Apache Kafka and Neo4j graph database. It’s written mostly with Kotlin, along with some Python and Golang and runs on cloud platform utilizing Kubernetes.

We do require that you have experience in some JVM based language and the more you know of the other technologies the better. But most important is that you have strong enthusiasm to learn new things by working as part of the team.

We do not require network expertise in your skillset, but this is a great learning opportunity in the world of networking and network automation.

Things we are looking for

• Experience in some JVM based language, preferably Kotlin
• JavaScript or TypeScript and React knowledge
• Interest to improve ways of working in the team
• Ability to understand Finnish is a plus

You will learn

• Understanding Docker & Kubernetes
• Understanding event architecture and messaging (i.e. Apache Kafka)
• Software-defined networking (SDN), networking, network automation

About Elisa

We offer you a supportive and extremely professional team and an employer who trusts its employees with as much freedom and responsibility as you feel comfortable with. You'll have the chance to develop your skills and learn new things, flexible and energetic work atmosphere with nice and notably top-class colleagues, caring leaders, growth possibilities and yummy employee benefits.

As our culture is based on strong trust, we believe you know the best where you get things done. You can be fully remote in Finland if that’s what you want or be based on any Elisa office locations you prefer. Of course, due to the restrictions now everyone is working fully remote.

Learn more about Elisa as an employer from our career pages or check out our LinkedIn page.

Apply now!

Leave an application as soon as possible and we will get in touch with you! For questions or further discussion, don't hesitate to get in touch with our Service Manager Juha (juha.kantola[at]elisa.fi).

We will perform a legitimate security clearance on the chosen candidate, which in turn requires having been a resident of Finland for a good number of years before the security clearance can be done.