Overview:
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer to join SOFTSWISS as part of the Infrastructure Development Department and help us build and evolve a reliable internal platform based on Kubernetes.
Purpose of the role:
In this role, you will work on infrastructure automation, CI/CD tooling, and internal platform standards that enable product teams to deploy and operate their applications efficiently and safely. You will play a key role in shaping our Kubernetes ecosystem, improving developer experience, and supporting application teams throughout onboarding and migration to Kubernetes.
Key responsibilities:
- 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).
- Develop internal standards in infrastructure.
- Participate in application onboarding and migration to k8s.
- Provide documentation, and guardrails for developers.
Required Experience:
- Good understanding of Linux-like operating systems.
- High experience with Kubernetes.
- High experience with own Helm-chart preparation.
- Good knowledge and experience in CI/CD process (Gitlab CI).
- Experience with configuration management systems (Puppet / Chef / Ansible / Saltstack). Experience in shell-scripting.
- Development experience with Python/Golang language.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Intermediate or higher English (B1+).
Nice to have:
- Experience with Werf.
- Architectural ability to participate in the design of complex, scalable systems and the readiness to argue decisions.
Technology stack:
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Gitlab-CI
- Terraform
- Kube Prometheus stack
- Python
- Postgresql
- Kafka
- Saltstack
- Python
Learn more about our hiring process here (link) – what to expect, how to prepare, and what makes SOFTSWISS different.