Kubernetes Engineer - Switch Cloud

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.

We're looking for an experienced Systems or DevOps Engineer to join us in this newly created role in the Cloud Adoption & Reliability Engineering (CARE) team. Our small team is responsible to deliver a Kubernetes as a Service (K8SaaS) self-service platform that is part of the new Switch Cloud, called Switch Cloud Kubernetes (SCK), while also enabling our colleagues and customers to embrace the cloud native world.

Kubernetes Engineer - Switch Cloud (80-100% - all identities and backgrounds)

Your main responsibilities will be

• Operating and continuously developing our K8SaaS platform.
• Providing end-user support for the platform.
• Integrating our platform with other systems and platforms.
• Coordination with our internal and external stakeholders.
• Additional tasks include
• Collaborating with and coach team members and other Switchies.
• Working with product management, sales, and other stakeholders to improve and promote our K8SaaS platform.
• Consulting for our customers with regards to Kubernetes and related technologies, building upon Switch Cloud.

What makes you a great fit

• Mindset and skills:
• A motivated, open-minded individual with a curious and inquisitive mindset, and the ability to think critically to develop creative solutions and solve complex problems.
• Reliability, adaptability, attention to detail and strong organizational abilities, such as prioritizing tasks, are essential to thrive in our diverse, dynamic and distributed team.
• As part of our collaborative, asynchronous work environment, you’ll need to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, and balance working independently with contributing as part of a dynamic team.
• Technical expertise:
• Experience with all of the following: Linux, CLI, Containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Git, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD principles, automation, monitoring, logging and alerting.
• A solid understanding of cloud-native technologies and open-source ecosystems.
• Fluency in English.

Earn bonus points with these technologies, tools and more

• Kubernetes ecosystem: KubeOne, Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform or any other Kubernetes distributions; Cluster API; Cilium or any other CNI; any ingress controllers; Cert Manager; Velero or Kopia; Flux, ArgoCD or any other GitOps tools; Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Alertmanager or any other monitoring / logging tools; Kyverno or any other policy engines; Trivy, Trivy Operator, Falco or any other security tools; any additional CNCF projects.
• Cloud platforms and practices: OpenStack; Hyperscalers or other public clouds; Terraform or Open Tofu; Ansible.
• Identity and Access Management: SAML 2.0 or OIDC; Dex or Keycloak.
• Collaborative Tools: GitLab, GitHub, Jira, Confluence.
• CKA, CKAD, CKS or other relevant certifications (including expired).
• Experience with programming and scripting languages.
• Agile methodologies and the 12 agile principles.
• We have customers in all language regions of Switzerland, thus fluency in German, French or Italian is highly beneficial. Both Switch and our community have staff who hail from all over the world, so any additional language will come handy.

What we offer

• We are a young at heart team in a value stream of passionate individuals sharing a common vision to develop the higher education and research cloud of tomorrow.
• We work in a unique educational environment where community-based solutions benefit students, researchers and staff.
• We offer a supportive environment in which collaboration and knowledge sharing thrive.
• We have an attractive working model with flexible working hours, home office, overtime compensation and much more.
• We have a unique workplace in the heart of Zurich or on the EPFL campus in Lausanne, but mostly work remotely.
• Company language is primarily German, team language is English, we offer support to enable employees to reach a comfortable level of German.

Does this sound exciting in itself? Then find out more about what it's like to work at Switch

and get an overview of the benefits.

Switch is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, pregnancy status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know how we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!