As a proven leader in the global aerospace sector, Airbus designs, produces and delivers innovative solutions with the aim to create a better-connected, safer and more prosperous world. These cutting-edge products and services – which span the commercial aircraft, helicopter, defence, security and space segments – benefit from our wide-ranging expertise and continued emphasis on innovation.

In Finland, Airbus Defence and Space Oy employs around 370 people in Helsinki and Jyväskylä. Most of our employees work in Public Safety and Security business unit, which offers advanced communication and collaboration solutions, compliant with the highest standards of security and reliability, both for mission and business critical users. We help our customers in public safety organisations such as police, defence, fire & rescue, healthcare & hospitals, airports, transportation, oil & gas, and utilities, collaborate in a smart and secure manner. While offering hybrid solutions to support our customers on a smooth evolution path, we are playing an active role in shaping future communications and collaborations technology and setting the ground for new standards.

We are now looking for an IT Architect & Integrator to join our team in the Jyväskylä office.

Main role and responsibilities

Your overall mission: As part of a team dedicated to the Public Safety market segment, your key focus will be system deployment following DevOps principles for various environments for customers in the Public Safety domain.

 Your detailed mission

• Develop automated software delivery processes as part of our DevOps team.
• Define competitive end-to-end solutions together with top experts from different teams in an international environment.
• Ensure that our solutions fit smoothly into our customers’ IT environments.
• As part of our dynamic and agile team, ensure robustness, performance and security aspects within the architecture design.

What we expect of you

 Competences

• Proven experience (at least 8 years) in working in complex IT environments.
• Sound understanding of virtualization techniques, hypervisor environments and containerization technology
• Experience in scripting and DevOps tools and techniques such as GitLab CI, Ansible and Terraform
• Strong system-level troubleshooting skills and the ability to identify and resolve high-level scalability and performance issues
• Awareness of security threats and corresponding security know-how
• Excellent communication skills to address needs and propose solutions towards customers and internal stakeholders
• Strong understanding of standard software development methodologies, such as Kanban, Scrum and SAFe
• Experience in the Public Safety industry is an advantage

 Education & Soft skills

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in IT or Communications
• Strong customer orientation
• Creative mindset and strong problem solving skills
• Analytical by nature, highly organized and able to effectively prioritize tasks
• Ability and willingness to work as a team player in a highly collaborative and fast-evolving international environment
• Fluent in English, Finnish skills are appreciated but not necessary

The position requires basic security clearance approval from Finnish authorities. 

To apply please send your CV, cover letter and salary expectation via the link below by April 14, 2024.

For further information, please contact the hiring manager Veikko Pankakoski tel. +358 40 801 8819 on April 5 between 13-14 EET or on April 12 between 13-14 EET.

Read more about Airbus in Finland on:
https://www.securelandcommunications.com/airbus-finland

Read more about what we do on:
https://www.securelandcommunications.com

Choose a workplace that offers truly meaningful work!

Secure our society: Airbus operates within an industry that is crucial for common safety. You are therefore able to find great meaning in your work tasks that help e.g. authorities to operate in a secure and collaborative way. 

You’ll have an impact: due to the nature of our industry, our products need to be 100% secure. Everyone of our employees helps to ensure that.

Work with great, competent colleagues: our work community is truly international, flexible and very supportive. We take pride in working together. Airbus as a company employs 134 000 professionals. For us, it is highly important that our employees feel valued just the way they are. 

Let us support you: we look out for each other and tackle problems together. Our supporting work community is something our employees value and appreciate. In addition, you’ll have comprehensive occupational healthcare team taking care of you as well as other benefits ensuring your wellbeing.