ICT System Engineer Senior (Backend Services Communication Services)

About the job

Bern (and home office) | 80-100% (job sharing possible)

What you can contribute

• Design, integration and further development of backend services for tactical and civilian communication solutions on the OpenShift platform NDP and take responsibility for their secure operation as well as automate deployment, configuration and testing
• Design, integrate and take responsibility for central security services such as key management (COMSEC/TRANSEC), PKI, IAM and PAM throughout their entire lifecycle and embed them consistently into the NDP – Communication Services system landscape
• Develop and integrate components for security services and testing as well as ensure monitoring, logging, alarming and continuous optimisation of operational and end-to-end processes
• Analyse and resolve disruptions in the interaction between platforms and subsystems, take on technical coordination and escalation with suppliers, and plan and implement changes, releases, upgrades and lifecycle activities
• Lead external DevSecOps engineers professionally, structure tasks, review and challenge technical solution approaches and establish binding quality standards
• Work in SAFe at team and ART level, collaborate closely with product owner, scrum master and architect, translate technical requirements into implementable solutions and document them, as well as use scripting and automation with tools such as Python and Ansible

What makes you unique

• Training as an IT specialist (EFZ/FA/FH), technician HF or engineer (UNI/ETH/FH) in computer science or telecommunications with good knowledge in the other field and several years of experience as a senior DevSecOps, platform or system engineer in complex, security-critical environments
• Very good knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux, container technologies, Git, CI/CD as well as infrastructure/configuration as code and automation, e.g. with Ansible, Helm and Python/Shell
• Broad security know-how in key management/cryptographic services, PKI, IAM/PAM, secrets management, hardening and vulnerability management as well as the ability to professionally challenge specialists
• Sound experience in platform operation as well as with monitoring, logging and alarming and common OSS ecosystems such as ELK, Zabbix, Grafana or OpenTelemetry and strong competence in end-to-end troubleshooting
• Experience with IT service management and ServiceNow as well as incident, problem, change, configuration and lifecycle processes; confident in dealing with suppliers and integrating manufacturer-specific application services
• Strong technical leadership and communication skills as well as experience in agile/SAFe organisations; ability to translate architecture, security and operational requirements into robust and automatable solutions

In a nutshell

Become part of the Cyber Command and actively shape the digitalisation and especially the digital networking of the Swiss Army.
Contribute to this unique task – the integration and secure operation of central backend services for the army's tactical communication systems – in a dynamic working environment.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the success model Switzerland and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at the workplace We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits

Your commitment to security and freedom

The Cyber Command (Kdo Cy) stands for expertise in the areas of cyber and digitalisation. We combine enthusiasm for our task with know-how, innovation, state-of-the-art technologies and agile working methods. We provide secure, robust and resilient IT services for the Swiss Army and our partners in the Swiss security network. This enables the Cyber Command to give the Swiss Army the necessary knowledge and decision-making advantage – for a secure Switzerland.

The Swiss Army employs over 9,000 people in four military and around 200 civilian professions – at 110 locations throughout Switzerland. The next generation is also taken care of: the Swiss Army trains apprentices in over 30 professions.

Additional information

A position with the Swiss Army makes sense and offers many advantages. Convince yourself at armee.ch/vorteile .
Offers from recruitment agencies will not be considered.

Questions about the position

Yvonne Bemelmans
Product Owner
+41 58 46 19537