Senior IT Operations Engineer - Datacentre, Network & Virtualisation | 80-100 % (m/f/d)

Senior IT Operations Engineer - Datacentre, Network & Virtualisation | 80-100 % (m/f/d)

Rocken® specialises in recruiting talents and experts from IT consulting and software engineering. We collaborate with the most exciting Swiss IT software manufacturers and consulting firms. Concurrently, we provide a network of established companies digitally and transparently through our closed Rocken® Talent Platform.

To ensure our partners can successfully manage their projects, a collaboration of various specialists from the fields of Agile Business Analysis, Requirements Engineering, Project Management, Software Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, and Security is required.

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Role:

Complex IT infrastructures, highly available datacentres, and demanding network technologies are your area of expertise? Here you take responsibility for systems where stability, performance, and technical precision are crucial.

Responsibilities:

• You operate, monitor, and optimise highly available datacentre infrastructures focusing on compute, storage, network, and virtualisation.

• You support the operation of the internet backbone with BGP and manage central network components, routing, firewalls, and VPN connections.

• You are responsible for the reliable operation of complex hosting and customer infrastructures with Windows, Linux, and virtualisation technologies.

• You plan and implement changes, system updates, patches, and rollouts in datacentre and customer environments.

• You analyse and resolve complex incidents from 1st to 3rd level support and develop sustainable solutions to ensure system availability.

• You take technical responsibility in infrastructure, migration, and modernisation projects and accompany their successful implementation.

• You support customers with technical queries and conduct on-site deployments if necessary.

• You work closely with internal engineering teams and customers and support the continuous optimisation of existing IT services.

Qualifications:

• Completed IT education EFZ or comparable qualification as well as several years of professional experience in IT infrastructure or system engineering environment

• Very good network knowledge in TCP/IP, routing, VLANs, firewalls, and VPN technologies; basic knowledge of BGP is an advantage

• Solid experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policies (GPO), and Microsoft 365

• Good knowledge of virtualisation, server hardware, and IT infrastructures as well as practical experience with VMware, Proxmox, or comparable platforms

• Experience in datacentre operations, hosting environments, or managing complex customer infrastructures

• Scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, or Python as well as interest in automation and Infrastructure as Code with Ansible, Terraform, or OpenTofu

• Linux knowledge, experience with container technologies and monitoring solutions such as Zabbix is an advantage

• Independent, structured, and solution-oriented working style with high personal responsibility and enthusiasm for demanding IT infrastructures

• Very good German and good English skills in spoken and written form

• Category B driving licence as well as good accessibility to the workplace in the Zurich Oberland

• Flexible working hours
• Home office

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Contact

Rigon Shabani,
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