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

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