DevOps/System Engineer

Overview:

We are looking for an experienced DevOps/System Engineer to join our technical team and take ownership of building, operating, and evolving a reliable and scalable infrastructure.
In this role, you will work closely with product development teams and key stakeholders to support business growth, improve system stability, and ensure efficient delivery of new features across multiple environments.

Purpose of the role:

This role focuses on maintaining a stable, scalable, and highly automated infrastructure that supports reliable product delivery.
You will design, operate, and improve infrastructure components, enhance CI/CD pipelines, monitor system health, and respond to incidents to ensure platform reliability.
By working with distributed systems and managing infrastructure migrations, you will help the company continuously improve operational efficiency and adapt the platform to evolving business needs.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product development teams and various stakeholders.

• Prepare new infrastructure, maintenance, and support of current infrastructure.

• Implement and deliver new features.

• Automate infrastructure components.

• Investigate and resolve problems and incidents.

• Develop and optimize CI pipelines for various projects.

• Manage infrastructure migrations between data centers.

• Provide consultation to developers, managers, and clients.

• Create and maintain technical documentation.

• Respond proactively to monitoring alerts and events.

Required Experience:

• At least 3 years of professional experience in systems engineering or a similar role such as SRE or DevOps.

• Good understanding of Linux-like operating systems.

• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack) and shell scripting.

• Experience with containerization, virtualization, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, LXC/LXD)

• Solid understanding of the CI/CD process and tools (Gitlab CI).

• Experience with distributed systems.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus stack/Zabbix).

• Experience in system design

• Development skills in any widely used scripting language.

• Experience in database administration (preferably PostgreSQL).

• Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and evolving business needs.

• Intermediate or higher level of English (B1+).

Nice to have:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Passion for digital trends and emerging technologies.

• Experience with major cloud service providers.

• Familiarity with modern AI-powered tools and their use in daily engineering workflows.

Technology stack:

• Bare-metal/Cloud

• Kubernetes

• Helm/Werf

• Saltstack

• ELK

• PostgreSQL (Patroni)

• Redis

• Kafka

• MongoDB

• Vault

• Terraform

• Gitlab

• Zabbix/Prometheus/VM + Grafana

• Minio

Our Benefits:

• Full-time work opportunities

• Private insurance

• An additional Day Off (1) per calendar year

• Sports program compensation

• Comprehensive Mental Health Programme

• Free online English lessons with native speakers

• Generous referral program

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

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