Platform / DevOps Engineer

Do you want to work on highly secure, mission-critical infrastructure where every layer matters?

Our client’s Bern-based Cyber Defense team is strengthening Switzerland’s sovereign cyber resilience by building advanced, open and future-ready capabilities for protecting critical national infrastructure. Within a highly skilled engineering environment, you will work across the full technology stack—from hardware and networking to Kubernetes and automation—helping to design, build, and operate a secure, reliable, and developer-friendly private cloud platform.

Would you like to bring in your expertise, curiosity, and problem-solving mindset and commit yourself together with the team to a shared mission? Then we look forward to hearing from you!

Your Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a sovereign on-premise private cloud platform across the full stack (infrastructure, networking, virtualization, containers)
• Manage Linux-based systems, compute, storage, and networking (L2/L3, routing, load balancing, firewalls)
• Build and operate container and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and virtualization layers
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure observability, monitoring, logging, and system reliability across the platform
• Apply security best practices across all layers (IAM, network security, encryption, system hardening)
• Troubleshoot complex issues across multiple layers and continuously improve platform resilience and usability

Your Profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field — or equivalent practical experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux system administration and infrastructure engineering
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible or similar)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, scripting or programming (Python, Go, Bash or similar)
• Understanding of observability tools and reliability concepts
• Strong problem-solving mindset, ownership, and willingness to learn
• Swiss citizenship is required