As a player in the financial industry, we at OP Pohjola have high quality standards for the services we offer and their reliability. The reliability of our systems is extremely important to us and is one of our critical competencies. We require reliability, appropriateness, and accessibility from our systems and services. We need your help to achieve this.

Our mission in Technology is to provide secure, reliable, and highly automated cloud platform services that enable OP Pohjola’s business areas to build and scale their services with confidence.

What is this about?

We are now looking for a Senior Reliability Engineer to join our Azure Platform Operations team, Cloud Platform tribe. In this role, you will work at the core of OP Pohjola’s cloud platform, ensuring that our Azure environment operates reliably, securely, and at scale. You will act as a hands-on technical expert responsible for driving reliability, automation, and operational excellence across the platform.

In your role, as a Senior Reliability Engineer, you are not only maintaining the platform, you are actively improving it.

You will:

• Own and develop the reliability of the Azure Platform from an operational perspective
• Drive automation across operations, incident management, and recovery processes
• Continuously improve observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities
• Actively identify risks and technical gaps, and take ownership to resolve them
• Work hands-on with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services
• Collaborate closely with application teams to improve workload reliability and platform adoption
• Ensure the platform meets high standards for availability, resilience, and business continuity

You are expected to take initiative, challenge the status quo, and proactively push improvements forward, not wait for them to be assigned.

The position is based in Helsinki or Oulu, according to your preference. We combine onsite and remote work flexibly in our daily routines.

What are we looking for?

This role is especially suited for someone with a strong technical background and a proactive mindset.

We are looking for:

• Solid hands-on experience in Azure cloud platforms and infrastructure
• Strong skills in automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Bicep, Terraform)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering principles
• Experience working in production environments with incident and problem management
• Ability to identify dependencies, risks, and improvement areas independently

In addition, we expect you to:

• Be highly self-driven and proactive — you take ownership and move things forward
• Have the ability to translate problems into concrete technical actions
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Work effectively in a DevOps-driven, cross-functional team

Experience with hybrid environments, high-availability architectures, or business continuity practices is considered an advantage.

Why OP Pohjola?

In internal surveys at OP Pohjola, our employees often cite the work community and their highly skilled colleagues as the most rewarding aspects of their work. We take great pride in this. As a member of OP Pohjola, you will join a company that is dedicated to developing the best products and services in the industry. 

As an employer OP Pohjola offers you a stable environment where people come first. Our people value good work-life balance and opportunities to learn and grow in their role. Our 70-20-10 model gives you a chance to focus on your professional development on your work time – by utilizing our very own OP Tech Academy, for instance. 

When you work for OP Pohjola, you work with the best products and services in the field. In everyday life, it is, of course, very nice to work in an architecturally beautiful environment, in a location easily accessible from basically anywhere. As an OP Pohjola employee, you are entitled to: 

• Structured model for professional career advancement 
• Possibility to enhance your own skillset while working with highly talented teams 
• Comprehensive occupational healthcare 
• Sport and cultural benefits 
• Benefits and discounts on OP Pohjola's own products  

Interested?

It would be great if you could start working with us as soon as possible. However, please submit your application by Friday 05.06.2026 at the latest.

For more information about the position, please contact Head of Production Engineering Milla Ahola (tel. 050 598 2764 or via email at milla.ahola(at)op.fi). You can best reach Milla by phone on Monday, 25 May, from 15:00 to 16:00, and on Tuesday, 26 May, from 11:00 to 13:00.

We operate in the financial sector and our business is founded on trust and accountability. For this reason, we will check the successful candidate's credit history, corporate connections and potential conflicts of interest. In addition, the successful candidate must take a drug test and will be subject to a security clearance vetting by the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.

OP Pohjola – We have something in common

Diversity and equality are highly prized at OP Pohjola. We want everyone to feel welcome and valued, and we appreciate that diversity enriches us and brings new perspectives. We invite job applications from everyone, because we all have something in common. We’re thrilled that you want to join us on our shared journey.

Owned by our customers, we are the most attractive financial sector employer in Finland. OP Pohjola employs more than 14,000 professionals. We have a mission – to promote the sustainable prosperity, security and wellbeing of our owner-customers and operating region. What we do matters, both to our employees and society in general. As the largest provider of financial services in Finland, we are building a better tomorrow; this has been our goal for more than 120 years.