With around 180 employees, Switch supports Switzerland's universities, research institutions, and critical infrastructure organizations on their way to a secure and trustworthy digital age. With innovative IT services, secure infrastructures, expert advice, and the networking of relevant specialist communities, we help our customers effectively and efficiently to use the opportunities offered by digitization. We provide the tools and services all teams need. We do this automated and cloud-first. With our support and the help of other teams we are developing the digital ecosystem for research and education in Switzerland. We are looking for a Platform Engineer to complement our Platform team to help us build new services on our cloud and to make existing services cloud-ready.
Platform Engineer (80-100% - all genders)
Your main tasks are
Develop, maintain and scale our observability platform and Kubernetes cluster
Architect, build and maintain Gitlab CI/CD pipelines enabling our application teams to efficiently develop, test, deploy and release their software
Migrating classic services to Cloud native deployments
Collaborating closely with the application teams to onboarding and ease migration of workloads to more cloud native solutions.
What you bring
Strong knowledge and experience in Kubernetes, GitOps building and maintaining Gitlab CI/CD pipelines
Experience in working with observability platform (collecting infrastructure, application metrics, dashboards visualization. Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana)
Knowledge of networking concepts
Strong Unix/Linux knowledge
Proficient coding skills in languages like Python, Bash scripting
We need people who
are community oriented and can understand and support the needs of research and education
can take initiative and drive things forward
are strong problem-solving with the ability to face complex issues
can respect and work well with their team and company colleagues
want to make things better
fluent in English, German is a plus
What you should know about us
Lots of interesting responsibilities, with the chance to make an impact on grow with the work
An attractive working model with flexible working hours, home office, compensation for overtime, etc.
A workplace in the heart of Zurich or on the EPFL campus in Lausanne
Does that sound exciting in itself? Then find out more about what it's like to work at Switch and get an overview of the benefits.
Your contact for this position:
Switch People & Culture Jennifer Keller Tel. 044 253 98 25 Do you have questions? If you have any questions before you send us your application documents, get in touch with . Jennifer will be happy to answer your questions and explain everything about Switch. More information on www.switch.ch ___ Please note that applications from candidates and recruiters will only be accepted through our job portal. Unfortunately, applications submitted via email cannot be considered. We appreciate your understanding and thank you for your compliance. You can find more job offers on switch.ch/jobs