Senior Site Reliability Engineer

WHO WE ARE?

Being the daughter company of Swisscom - leading telecommunications company and one of the most sustainable and innovative companies in Switzerland - we share the same values, vision and goals.

Our ambition – to become the #1 DevOps team in Europe! We work on innovative and challenging projects that use "state-of-the-art tech" in an Agile environment. As DevOps engineers, we understand the equal importance of relationships, culture, soft skills, and collaborative working in a friendly environment.

The product/ Team:

We are looking for a passionate SRE to work with the latest and greatest big data technologies, and build our newest hybrid Big Data Platform, on-premises and AWS. You have proven experience in system engineering, can handle networking and security challenges, and have contributed to architectural concepts and technologies, then check out our main activities.

As a part of the team you will: 

• Ensure the reliability, scalability and performance of our hybrid platform, built around Ceph and Kubernetes technologies
• Design, build and maintain our on-premises and cloud-based Infrastructures using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
• Support the onboarding of new projects and provide 24/7 on-call support for production systems

What we offer:

• Salary from 3300 to 5000 EUR monthly gross
• 80 EUR monthly cell phone and internet allowance
• Flexible schedule and possibility to work in hybrid mode
• Ergonomic home office allowance in value of 500 EUR
• Possibility to work abroad for 4 weeks each year
• Premium health insurance after 1 month (with included consultations with psychologist or psychotherapist)
• Optics (200 EUR every 2 years)
• 24 working days of annual paid holiday per year
• 5 dedicated paid learning day’s annually
• Gym membership or swimming pool/water aerobics membership
• Day off on your birthday or names day
• 1 day off for social activities (voluntary project, adopting an animal)​
• Collaborative, friendly and driven work environment
• Work on innovations, cutting edge technologies and in autonomous high performance teams
• Parking options
• Continuous development environment that fosters your growth (conferences, cross-department experience sharing, learning platforms etc.)
• Annual salary review

Job requirements

What we expect:

• Expertise in systems engineering (Linux, networking, system security)
• Some experience in Software Development for automation, and platform integration (e.g. Python, Java, Go, C++)
• Extensive experience in managing scalable distributed systems (e.g. Ceph, Kubernetes, Hadoop)
• Experience working in an environment that follows Infrastructure as a Code pattern (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD)
• Experience in using and adapting IT monitoring and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
• Good communication and English skills
• Positive attitude, team-oriented, reliable, accountable and pragmatic
• Proactive, solution-oriented and eager to continuously bring our services to the next level

Apply now for a new professional adventure and work with motivated colleagues from all over the world!

Join our DevOps team in Riga, backed by Swisscom - one of the leading Swiss IT providers.

NB! This position requires living or relocation to Latvia.