Site Reliability Engineer (Helsinki, other)

Elisa’s Digital Services is responsible for creating a wide range of services for both corporate and consumer customers. We employ a variety of different talent ranging from designers to developers to product owners and more, all working together to innovate and deliver new services.

We are now looking for Site Reliability Engineer to support all Elisa software development in Site Reliability Engineering team!

About The Job

This position gives you unique opportunities to help Elisa on its journey towards the world of clouds, APIs and digitalization. Your job is to empower our software development teams by building tools and automation as services - helping them stay focused on their product vision while you take care of the enabling infrastructure. In addition, we hope you to be capable of providing best practices how to approach and solve operational issues in their own products.

Examples of our services include large-scale Kubernetes automation, Metrics as Service platforms and shared GitHub Actions runner infra, along with the efficient practices to fully benefit from these. We support teams to efficiently utilize Google Cloud in their projects as well develop solutions to common requirements.

💙 You can also read about our colleague Antti’s experience of working as Site Reliability Engineer!

How We Work

If you’re a self-starter with an open, inquisitive approach to your work, you’ll feel right at home here! The users of our services are the most important thing to you, and this is also evident in everything you do. You enjoy co-operating with different experts in the field as a part of our agile development team. Best way to develop some of our tooling is active participation in Open Source upstream projects. We also hope that you can support and educate other developers on the efficient usage of the platforms and tools our team is responsible for.

Your closest stakeholders are based in Helsinki, Pasila. At this team we are following Elisa’s hybrid working policies.

Skills We Are Looking For

• Hands-on coding history, preferably with Go
• Experience in modern software development technologies, at least some of the following: TypeScript, React, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Github Actions, OIDC
• Experience in supporting production workloads on top of public clouds (GCP/AWS) or Kubernetes
• Excellent interaction and tech communications skills in Finnish and English
  
  

Other Skills Appreciated

• Implementing metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
• Implementing SLIs and SLOs and how they influence collaboration between business and development
• Experience of working with open-source projects
  
  

We Offer You

• Unique opportunity to influence software and service development across multiple teams
• Lot of freedom to choose the best approach to the tasks at hand
• Opportunity to work with best people (both our own and external consultants)
• A motivated and agile work environment
  
  

Why Elisa? 

At Elisa, you’ll find

• Relaxed and inclusive work culture
• Genuinely flexible working practices
• Supportive colleagues
• Opportunities for professional growth
  
  

Elisa has been ranked one of the best places to work in Finland, for several reasons: a friendly working environment, a continuous curiosity and an innovative aim to develop, as well as a fundamental invitation to come as you are.

We know that everyone has a life outside of work — and we believe work should fit into life, not the other way around.

👉 Read more about working at Elisa here!

Interested? Don’t wait too long to submit your application — we’ll fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate. If you have any questions, you can reach out to the team lead Juha Leino on (firstname.lastname[at]elisa.fi).

Please note! The chosen candidate will undergo drug test and a security clearance vetting, which in turn requires having stayed in Finland for multiple years.