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Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps / Azure AKS)
M&S Software Engineering
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · 3 days/week in office · Schlieren, Switzerland
Experience
3 years
Job description
Site Reliability Engineer role focused on improving the reliability, stability and performance of a SaaS platform, running and scaling AKS clusters and building observability.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · 3 days/week in office · Schlieren, Switzerland
- Languages
- German – fluent
What you'll do
- Continuously improve reliability, stability and performance of the SaaS platform
- Operate, scale and further develop AKS clusters and support migration of applications into containers
- Build monitoring, logging and alerting and ensure meaningful metrics
- Define SLIs, SLOs and error budgets with development and product management and derive improvements
- Analyze incidents, conduct post-mortems and ensure sustainable fixes
- Automate operations and deployments with Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD
- Work closely with architecture, development and security and bring in the operations perspective early
- Take on-call duty in rotation with four other team members, about one week per month, with standby until 10 pm
What we're looking for
- Several years of experience as an SRE, platform, cloud or DevOps engineer
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production, ideally AKS
- Solid Linux experience in a production environment
- Experience with Azure and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/OpenTofu)
- Confident scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python
- Structured, independent way of working and enjoyment of solving problems sustainably
- Fluent German in speech and writing
Nice to have
- Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana or Azure Monitor
- Experience with Windows containers or migrating .NET/IIS applications
- Know-how in container and Kubernetes security (e.g. network policies, image scanning)
- Experience in regulated environments such as finance, insurance or the public sector
Benefits
Exciting tasks with room to shape things: help build the reliability strategy in a modern cloud environment with flat hierarchies
Generous fringe benefits: contributions to personal IT/home office infrastructure, mobile subscription, meals, public transport/parking, sports/fitness subscription
Education and career: professional onboarding, support for professional and personal further training including certifications (e.g. CKA, Azure), career opportunities
- Meaningful work: systems ensure pension and social insurance benefits reliably arrive in Switzerland
- 2 days home office per week and part-time work, health and social support, profit sharing
