Specialist Trainee, DevOps

Join us as a colleague The application period for OP Pohjola’s 2027 Kiitorata Trainee Program is now open! We are looking for 39 open-minded and courageous talents for diverse, challenging, and skill-enhancing roles in various business areas. Are you curious about what happens after code is written? Do you want to learn how modern software is built, tested, secured, and delivered in a world where AI assistants are becoming part of every developer’s toolbox? We are now strengthening our Engineering Capabilities department with DevOps Specialist Trainee Software development today is about much more than writing code. Reliable delivery pipelines, automation, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and governance all play an important role in ensuring that software can be delivered safely, efficiently, and at scale. As a DevOps Trainee, you will join our Platform Engineering team, which develops and maintains services and tools used by software development teams across OP Pohjola. Our mission is to improve developer experience, enable efficient software delivery, and provide platform capabilities that help teams build high-quality software securely and reliably. During your trainee period, you will participate in the development and maintenance of platform services, CI/CD solutions, automation, and developer tooling. You will collaborate closely with software development teams, helping them use platform capabilities effectively, resolve challenges, and improve their development workflows. You will also gain firsthand experience of how AI is transforming software development. We are actively exploring AI-assisted software engineering, including coding assistants, automated testing, developer productivity tools, and AI-enabled workflows. As part of the team, you will have opportunities to contribute to experiments and improvements that help us understand how AI can be adopted safely and effectively in a highly regulated environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to understand how modern software delivery works in practice and how platform teams enable large engineering organizations to succeed. Does this sound like you? You do not need to be an expert in every technology. What matters most is curiosity, a willingness to learn, and an interest in how software systems are built, delivered, and operated. To succeed in this role, you: Have completed, or are currently pursuing, a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field Have programming skills and are eager to further develop your software engineering expertise Are interested in DevOps, cloud technologies, automation, software delivery, or platform engineering Are curious about AI-assisted software development and emerging developer tools Appreciate automation and prefer solving recurring problems with tools rather than manual work Are patient and persistent when solving problems, even when solutions are not…