Sr Platform Engineer (80-100% Zurich Hybrid)

You are passionate about highly scalable cloud platform, you can code and have experience with Networking protocol, this job is for you:

Sr Platform Engineer (80-100% Zurich Hybrid)

Your Mission:

We are seeking a talented Platform Engineering person to join our growing team in revolutionising the way modern software systems are built. As a (Senior) Platform Engineer (w/m), you will help us to design, develop and operate a highly scalable cloud platform. Our customers are our internal engineering teams. You will be primarily responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining Kubernetes and related cloud container technologies. You will be developing and implementing strategies around cloud-based container orchestration, upgrades, and scaling, as well as leading the development and deployment of cloud applications on our platform. Providing an excellent Developer Experience is our mission. As part of the enabling technologies department, we are responsible for a strong and reliable foundation of all our services.

This position will give you the opportunity to drive small to midsize projects, right from the concept phase all the way through to production deployment and operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements to the platform infrastructure.

Your Qualifications

A successful candidate will bring 4+ years of experience in a similar position to the table with a proven record in building scalable and resilient distributed systems using modern cloud technologies.

• University degree in Computer Science or similar educational level
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration and automation in cloud architectures (Kubernetes, Helm)
• Experience with modern observability principles, stacks and tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager
• Knowledge in GitOps principles and CI/CD tooling
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Worked with at least one public cloud provider (Azure, GCP, AWS, ...) already
• Knowledge of Linux system administration, networking concepts and major Internet protocols (TCP/IP, IPsec, SSL, SSH, SMTP, HTTPS, DNS)
  
  
  

Bonus skills and qualifications:

• Experience with services meshes (e.g. Istio)
• Knowledgeable in different database technologies (SQL, time series, NoSQL)
• Practical knowledge of modern programming languages (Golang, Java)
• Scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python, Bash
  
  
  

What We Offer

Want to join a team that enjoys making secure connectivity simple for our customers? You’ll be among people who believe in:

Caring PASSIONATELY about keeping our customers safe – We’re dedicated to solving problems. Whatever it takes.

Thinking UNCONVENTIONALLY to stay ahead – The world never fails to surprise us. So let’s surprise it first.

Doing the hard work to make things SIMPLE – Craft and hone something that delights in its simplicity.

Working COLLABORATIVELY to build success – The power of the team will always make us faster and better.

As a testament to this, Open Systems has been recognized as an outstanding place to work. You’ll be surrounded by smart teams who enrich your experience and provide opportunities you will need to develop your skills and advance your career. 

We look forward to receiving your online application (please note that you need to compress your application into two attachments). Only direct applications will be considered.

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Open Systems is growing and so will you: Apart from on-the-job experience, you will have the chance to complete the Mission Control Engineer Certification to support our Operations team once a week.

Come as you are! We are looking for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Open Systems welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.

About Open Systems

Backed by the Service Experience Promise, Open Systems simply and cost-effectively connects and secures hybrid environments and thus ensures your organization can meet business objectives. Open Systems uniquely focuses on a superior user experience when helping organizations reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation. The Open Systems SASE Experience delivers on the promise of ZTNA with a comprehensive, unified and easy-to-implement and use SASE platform that combines SD-WAN and Security Service Edge delivered as a Service. We provide 24x7 operational management and engineering support from assigned engineering teams and ensure affordable and predictable costs.