System Engineer/DevOps - Senior

Overview:

SOFTSWISS is hiring a System Engineer / DevOps - Senior. We are looking for a hands-on and reliability-focused engineer to design, automate, and maintain scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines, ensuring stable, secure, and high-performing environments across our products and services.

Purpose of the role:

You will be responsible for designing, automating, and evolving infrastructure and delivery processes to ensure reliable, scalable, and efficient system operations. Your work will enable development teams to deploy, monitor, and operate services smoothly while maintaining high standards of stability, security, and performance.

Required Experience:

• 3+ years of experience as a System Engineering/SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering

• Good understanding of Linux-like operating systems (Administration and troubleshooting)

• Experience with configuration management systems (Ansible / Saltstack / Terraform / Pulumi)

• Strong Kubernetes experience (deployment patterns, networking, storage, autoscaling, troubleshooting)

• Design and maintain infrastructure automation for internal Kubernetes-based application platforms

• Develop and maintain reusable Helm charts for application teams

• Build and operate CI/CD components (GitLab CI templates, shared pipelines, pipeline scripts)

• Provide documentation, and guardrails for developers

• Experience with shell scripting/Python

• Experience with monitoring systems (Prometheus stack/Zabbix)

• Comfortable collaborating closely with Python engineers (debugging runtime issues, packaging, dependency management)

• English level - B2+

Nice to have:

• Observability experience with Datadog, Prom/VM (plus OpenTelemetry is a big advantage)

• Direct experience operating RAG systems and vector databases (pgvector, Milvus, Qdrant, Weaviate, Pinecone, etc.)

• Experience with domain management (CloudFlare/Route53)

• Experience with GPU workloads/model serving (KServe, Ray Serve, Triton)

• Experience with Go language

• Ability to leverage AI-powered tools and platforms to optimize workflows and support decision-making.

• Experience with log aggregating systems (ELK/EFK stack)

Our Benefits:

• Full-time remote work opportunities and flexible working hours

• Private insurance

• Additional 1 Day Off per calendar year

• Sports program compensation

• Comprehensive Mental Health Programme

• Free online English lessons with a native speaker

• Generous referral program

• Training, internal workshops, and participation in international professional conferences and corporate events

Learn more about our hiring process here – what to expect, how to prepare, and what makes SOFTSWISS different.