Platform Engineer

About us

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

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.