DevOps/System Engineer (Platform Kubernetes) – Senior

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