Lead Cloud & Platform Engineer — Hybrid

Wärtsilä; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wärtsilä invites a Lead Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to guide cloud-based infrastructure and platform services for the Decarbonisation Services product platform. The preferred location is Helsinki or Vaasa, Finland, with a hybrid work option.

You will establish CI/CD, IaC, observability, and security practices, collaborating across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity and product teams to enable scalable operations.

Qualifications

• MSc/BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud (GCP).
• Proven infrastructure architecture and platform engineering experience.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and configuration management.
• Strong networking, security, identity management, and system integration knowledge.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized solutions, and automation tools is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and platform services.
• Define architecture principles, standards, and best practices for reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Establish and improve DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and IaC.
• Improve developer productivity through automation, tooling, monitoring, and self-service capabilities.
• Drive operational excellence through observability, logging, monitoring, and incident management.
• Act as the technical authority for platform- and infrastructure-related topics.
• Guide development teams on architecture, deployment strategies, cybersecurity, and platform design.
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, cybersecurity specialists, and product management teams.

Skills

Cloud platforms

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Security & networking

Education

MSc/BSc in CS/SE/IT

Tools

Google Cloud

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Wärtsilä invites a Lead Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to guide cloud-based infrastructure and platform services for the Decarbonisation Services product platform. The preferred location is Helsinki or Vaasa, Finland, with a hybrid work option.

You will establish CI/CD, IaC, observability, and security practices, collaborating across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity and product teams to enable scalable operations.