Lead Platform Engineer

Combining industrial automation and data analytics - looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join our team!

Valmet as a global supplier of process technology, services, and automation for pulp, paper, energy, and process industries, we are part of society's critical infrastructure, directly contributing to a sustainable future. Be part of the solution to the grand challenges of our time!

We are now looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join our Industrial Data Analytics R&D team, where you'll take an important role in shaping, automating, and scaling the platform infrastructure that powers our industrial data analytics solutions across cloud and industrial on-premises environments.

In this role, you'll work closely with development teams, system architects, and product owners to deliver advanced analytics and data-driven solutions for industrial customers. We focus on sustainable, high-quality engineering and developer self-service rather than short-term workarounds, aiming for lasting reliability and impact in a global market.

This position is located either in our Tampere or Vantaa office.

Your responsibilitiesGuide Platform Engineering: Contribute to and guide the technical direction of our infrastructure platform together with the system architect and engineering teams.

Stay hands-on: Actively participate in platform implementation and problem solving.

Automate Environments: Design and maintain repeatable, automated provisioning and teardown of Dev/QA environments using modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Develop cloud & on-premises platforms: Build, optimize, and maintain container platforms spanning AWS (Amazon EKS) and on-premises industrial setups using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, Ansible.

Streamline Packaging & CI/CD: Develop robust delivery pipelines and software packaging bundles for distributed, on-premises deployments.

Enable Engineering Teams: Help developers and QA engineers adopt and troubleshoot platform serv