Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

• Workload: 80-100%
• Contract type: Full time
• Model of Work: Hybrid
• Start: 01.10.2024

As a Site Reliability Engineer in the Publishing Technology Solutions group, you will help shape the digital future of Tamedia. This role combines traditional SRE responsibilities with platform team tasks, aimed at improving, deploying, and running Switzerland’s most important news sites. You will be part of a team of 6 engineers responsible for running the end-to-end Tamedia publishing cloud infrastructure.

Our Team Values

Automate It: We believe in streamlining processes with code.

Code First: Infrastructure as code is our mantra for consistency and efficiency.

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Collaboration and shared success are our

cornerstones.

Lifelong Learning: We're always growing and improving our skills.

Proactive Problem Solvers: We anticipate issues before they arise.

Customer Focus: Delivering a smooth experience for journalists and readers is key.

Curiosity Counts: We love asking questions and exploring new possibilities.

If this sounds like you, keep reading!

What you can expect

• Play a key role in building Tamedia publishing platform, which will standardize development processes and empower teams to create innovative services and applications
• Collaborate with developers across Tamedia to ensure the platform meets their needs and simplifies their workflows
• Run our infrastructure on AWS with Kubernetes as our container orchestrator
• Develop and maintain automation tools and processes, including deployment workflows through GitHub Actions
• Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow our publishing solutions scaling to support thousands of internal concurrent users and millions of external users worldwide
• Establish monitoring and alerting to proactively prevent disruptions, using Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana
• Leverage potential of cloud solutions, properly balancing availability, reliability, performance, and costs, in close contact with the product teams
• Be on an on-call rotation to respond to availability incidents and provide support for product engineers

We are looking for

• Proven experience in a Platform or SRE role
• Enthusiasm to continuously learn and love for challenges
• Experience working in a collaborative environment and a passion for creating development efficiencies
• You know AWS in depth and you have experience with CDNs
• Proficiency with at least one programming language (Python, Node, etc.)
• Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken or which can be improved, you can't help but act
• You have extensive knowledge of docker, kubernetes, terraform and git
• You can help software engineers learn to build for the cloud, and exploit the potential of the cloud ecosystem
• You have mastery over CI/CD tools and processes, and are continually improving these

Benefits

What we offer: Attractive additional benefits and discounts for our employees

• Five weeks vacation with option for seven weeks and vacation purchase
• Flexible working models and mobile office options
• A market-, performance- and success-oriented compensation package
• Numerous discounts e.g. cell phone subscription, digital TV, bicycle rental, car purchase
• Wide range of free health promotion services (social counseling, health coach app, flu vaccination, various trainings)
• Possibility for unpaid vacation up to max. six months
• Additional half days off before certain holidays
• Wide training and development offering (leadership, mentoring, development programs, language courses, self-competence, methodological competence, project management, change management and much more)
• Free digital subscriptions and discounted print offers

Recruitment Process

From application to success: Our hiring process

Preselection

We review our applications on an ongoing basis. To ensure a fast response time, we create a preliminary selection. The decision on advancement or departure from the recruitment process is done by the hiring manager and communicated via mail.

Technical Interview

Here you will get to know your potential manager and/or colleagues. We will test specific knowledge relevant to the execution of the job. Depending on the situation, this will be either conducted virtually or in person. Also this step can be split into several smaller interviews.

Case Study

You will be given a specific problem or challenge that is relevant to the position you have applied for. When presenting your results, we have the opportunity to better understand your skills and approaches in a work context.

On-site Iinterview

Our on-site interview is all about building a connection and getting to know each other better. You'll have the chance to meet face-to-face with supervisors and team members, gain valuable insights into the position and get a feel for our workplace culture.

About Tamedia Publikationen Deutschschweiz AG

Tamedia is a Swiss media company founded in 1893 with the Tages-Anzeiger. Today, the company includes the paid daily and Sunday newspapers, magazines and publishing services. Its best-known publications include 24 heures, Basler Zeitung, Bilan, BZ Berner Zeitung, Das Magazin, Der Bund, Finanz und Wirtschaft, Le Matin Dimanche, Schweizer Familie, SonntagsZeitung, Tages-Anzeiger and Tribune de Genève. Tamedia also operates Switzerland’s largest newspaper printing plants in Zurich, Berne and Bussigny. The company employs people in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland.