DevOps Engineer (80-100% - all identities and backgrounds)

Join Switch, a dynamic company supporting Swiss universities and research. Enjoy a collaborative work environment, flexible hours, and exciting benefits.

Tasks

• Ensure a reliable, secure, and scalable cloud deployment environment.
• Maintain and enhance PostgreSQL, Ansible, and Terraform infrastructures.
• Collaborate with developers to optimize workflows and improve cloud solutions., * Ensuring a reliable, secure and scalable deployment environment for Switch Cloud management applications.
• You are responsible for maintaining and improving:
• PostgreSQL infrastructure (databases for our services, pgAdmin4, ...),
• Ansible collections, roles and infrastructure (Ara Records, Ansible, ...),
• Terraform modules and projects to manage virtual machines on our OpenStack infrastructure,
• various CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy standard components and our applications (mainly Ruby on Rails)
• and other backing services: Sentry, Certificate Management, Site24x7, Loki, Grafana, Vector, Kafka ...
• Within our team you work closely with full stack developers to optimise our development and operation workflows.
• You work on improving our cloud management solutions, in particular the performance, security and stability of portal and billing services, to ensure operational excellence.
• You identify, analyse and solve problems and incidents, in collaboration with the team.
• You participate in 2nd/3rd level support and iteratively improve the products based on direct customer feedback.

What you bring

• Good knowledge and independent practices of Linux, Git (GitLab), PostgreSQL, Openstack, Terraform/Opentofu, Ansible, Docker, and general DevOps practices., * A highly versatile and unique role with plenty of creative freedom in a dynamic and innovative company.
• An exciting work environment that supports and promotes your professional goals.
• An attractive work model with flexible working hours, home office options, overtime compensation, etc.
• Company language is German and English, team language is English. We support you to grow in both.
• Office located in the heart of Zurich.

• 3+ years in DevOps, computer science degree, and strong communication skills.
• Proficient in Linux, Git, PostgreSQL, and Docker.
• Experienced in CI/CD pipelines and cloud management solutions., * An university degree in computer science or comparable qualifications as well as good expertise in DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering.
• 3+ years of practical experience in developing, deploying and managing platforms for reliable web applications.
• Good communication, teamwork, active participation, commitment to continuous improvement, and feedback skills.
• Fluent in English (German is a plus).

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