With around 180 employees, Switch supports Switzerland's universities, research institutions, and critical infrastructure organizations on their way to a secure and trustworthy digital age. With innovative IT services, secure infrastructures, expert advice, and the networking of relevant specialist communities, we help our customers effectively and efficiently use the opportunities offered by digitization.

Our Trust and Identity department a group of twelve working in several small teams on the applications to deliver a range of services including Switch edu-ID, eduroam, Switch Sign and IAM. We operate on DevOps principles, specifically we are responsible for the design, development and operations of those services and also deliver customer solutions and advanced support and consultancy.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer in a new specialist team to help us run reliable and secure services for the Swiss education sector. We need someone who can work closely with trust and identity service teams to enable seamless and reliable continuous delivery.

With around 180 employees, Switch supports Switzerland's universities, research institutions, and critical infrastructure organizations on their way to a secure and trustworthy digital age. With innovative IT services, secure infrastructures, expert advice, and the networking of relevant specialist communities, we help our customers effectively and efficiently use the opportunities offered by digitization.

Devops Engineer (80-100%, all genders)

• Enable a stable, secure and scalable production environment for one of Switzerland's largest identity systems, making a lasting impact on the national and international digital landscape.
• Provide technical project management for the migration of trust & identity applications into cloud-native environments in Switch's own Switch Cloud platform (k8s, OpenStack, monitoring, logging and alerting platforms).
• Carry out hands on DevOps work to build and maintain the operating environment for trust and identity including the deployment environment and metrics based monitoring.
• Solution/domain architecture - design and implement highly available operational environments from components and infrastructure provided by other teams and by your own team.
• Identify, analyse and solve problems and work with the service teams to develop concepts to improve our deployment and operational environment.
• Deep knowledge of containerisation, Kubernetes and general cloud-native topics.
• Hands on experience with metrics based monitoring, logging and alerting.
• Demonstrated expertise in Linux, Git/GitOps (Gitlab, Flux, ArgoCD), and DevOps practices, ensuring seamless integration and efficient collaboration within our team.
• Ability to work across teams and harmonise requirements into solutions for the department.
• Knowledge of and interest in privacy preserving digital identities.
• Knowledge of modern authentication and authorization technologies.
• Experience in operating an SQL based database system and/or LDAP user directory (we use PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP).
• SRE or large scale service provider operations background.
• We're on the critical path for over a million users daily.
• Our main developer environment and platforms are Kubernetes and Gitlab and we develop and maintain our end to end pipelines.
• Our main logging and monitoring platforms are based on Grafana, Prometheus, Vector and Loki and we are responsible for configuring SLIs and alerting.
• We work in an open and collaborative culture where everyone is encouraged to bring solutions.
• We have an attractive working model with flexible working hours, home office, overtime compensation and much more.
• Company language is german, team language is english, we offer support to enable employees to reach a comfortable level of german.
• The group works primarily in Zürich on a hybrid basis.

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