We are looking for a Platform Engineering Lead to join St1’s Cloud & Infrastructure team, a team that owns and operates a portfolio of critical business platforms, from cloud infrastructure and identity management to ITSM and security tooling.<\/p>\n
Your primary focus is cloud infrastructure and DevOps, but your impact goes broader: you are the team’s go-to for automation and smarter ways of working across all platforms. A core part of the mission is building cloud infrastructure services that developers can consume as self-service, reducing friction, accelerating delivery, and giving teams what they need without platform involvement at every step.<\/p>\n
To do this well, you think like a developer: you understand delivery pipelines, CI\/CD, software lifecycles, and what it actually takes to ship and run software. That mindset, combined with strong cloud and infrastructure knowledge, is what makes a great platform lead.<\/p>\n
You lead by example. Most of your time is hands-on, since in this craft you can’t stay relevant without building, but a meaningful part of the role is inspiring and enabling your team: sparring on hard problems, pairing, teaching, and lifting how the whole team works. You don’t need to arrive as a finished AI expert. What matters is the belief that AI is reshaping platform work, and the drive to learn it yourself and bring your team along with you.<\/p>\n
How youll help drive the change<\/p>\n
Joining St1, youll be part of running and developing a profitable business that invests in long-term energy solutions. Together we achieve the extraordinary through everyday work. As a Platform Engineering Lead, youll play a key role in<\/p>\n
Leading the platform engineering team: set technical direction, support engineers day to day, spar on hard problems, and actively grow the team’s skills, including new ways of working.<\/p>\n
Being hands-on: designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, automation pipelines, and platform tooling yourself.<\/p>\n
Applying infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) to standardize and govern environments across the cloud landscape.<\/p>\n
Owning the full lifecycle of platform services, from design and build to operations, improvement, and decommission.<\/p>\n
Driving a DevSecOps approach: security, reliability, and observability built in, not bolted on.<\/p>\n
Supporting developers building and deploying in cloud and hybrid environments. The platform exists to make their work easier.<\/p>\n
Managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs. FinOps is part of the job, not an afterthought.<\/p>\n
Finding where automation can reduce manual platform work and lead the team in adopting those approaches.<\/p>\n
Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving cloud and deployment issues, and building the tooling that prevents them recurring.<\/p>\n
Documenting decisions, configurations, and practices clearly so the team can build on your work.<\/p>\n
What you bring to the team<\/p>\n
Were looking for a colleague with the drive to challenge, collaborate and grow. To thrive in this role, you likely have:<\/p>\n
Leading by example: you grow the people around you, spar on hard problems, and have the enthusiasm to take a team into new territory while learning alongside them.<\/p>\n
Strong developer background with hands-on infrastructure experience. This combination is the heart of the role.<\/p>\n
Solid software development background: you’ve built and shipped real software and understand the full delivery lifecycle.<\/p>\n
Hands-on cloud experience (GCP and\/or Azure) and a solid grasp of cloud-native architecture and governance.<\/p>\n
Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, which you use as a default, not an option.<\/p>\n
Understanding of cloud governance: networking, IAM, security controls, and cost management (FinOps).<\/p>\n
Experience with CI\/CD, automation, and DevSecOps practices.<\/p>\n
Genuine, demonstrated enthusiasm for AI. You don’t need deep expertise, but we’d love to see it show up somewhere concrete: tools you’ve built, a personal portfolio of experiments, or things you’ve tried hands-on.<\/p>\n
Systematic, pragmatic problem-solving: comfortable making good-enough decisions under uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Clear communication with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.<\/p>\n
Who are we looking for<\/p>\n
We’re looking for those who live the St1 Spirit: Curious, Commercial, Committed and Caring. It shows up in daily actions: making it safe for teams to raise problems early, following through when delivery gets tough, thinking end-to-end rather than in silos, and helping the team learn faster than the environment changes.<\/p>\n
Why Join St1?<\/p>\n
– Lead a platform team with real influence on St1s technology direction.
\n– Stay hands-on while coaching and enabling a high-performing team.
\n– Shape how AI transforms platform engineering and operations.
\n– Develop into cloud architecture, AI, or platform leadership.
\n– Work in a high-performing Nordic technology organisation built on trust and ownership.<\/p>\n
How we support your journey<\/p>\n
At St1, your safety and wellbeing come first. We offer an open and inclusive workplace where youre respected and trusted to take initiative. In a hands-on, informal culture – and a business that never stands still – theres room to explore ideas and take on new challenges. We support your journey through learning and opportunities to grow across teams and countries.<\/p>\n
Youll have real leadership of a platform team and the foundation it owns, working with a wide range of teams; backed by competitive pay, a bonus scheme and genuine opportunities to grow your career.<\/p>\n
If youd like to explore more about our culture, visit our career site.<\/p>\n
What to expect after you apply<\/p>\n
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to an inclusive and equitable recruitment process.<\/p>\n
Interested? Send us your CV and cover letter via the Barona Career site no later than Thursday, 14 August 2026.<\/p>\n
For more information, please reach out to us during the August calling times: Tuesday, 4 of August or Thursday, 6 August 2026 between noon and 2 pm.<\/p>\n
Contact person is Baronas Recruitment Team Lead Lassi Jyrinsalo at +358 40 762 8992 or via email at lassi.jyrinsalo@barona.fi.<\/p>\n
Lets challenge the ordinary
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