Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

Founded in Switzerland in 1968 Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner with engineering and innovation in our DNA. Were trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrows markets customers and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation digital solutions and applications and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex regulated spaces including health and finance connecting strategy tech implementation and operational services to help clients become more effective resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work for the right reasons we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

The Role

Bring your passion for DevOps and platform engineering to life by enabling modern automated cloud-native delivery across complex enterprise environments. As a DevOps Engineer you will work in agile multidisciplinary teams to design build and operate scalable platforms that empower developers and accelerate delivery for projects.

In this role youll drive GitOps and Everything-as-Code practices architect advanced CI/CD pipelines and build self-service on-demand environments that improve developer experience and productivity. Youll be hands-on with Kubernetes operations infrastructure automation observability engineering cloud-native security and modern deployment strategies.

You will shape end-to-end DevOps capabilitiesfrom automated environment provisioning and secure service mesh networking to monitoring-as-code secrets automation and resilient runtime operations. Your work will ensure faster releases higher reliability and stronger compliance in a mission-critical environment.

At Zühlke we value craftsmanship collaboration and continuous learning. Youll work closely with our global community of experts supported by cutting-edge tools and a culture that encourages curiosity and innovation.

Whats Important to Us

You bring a blend of technical depth and consulting mindset ideally from DevOps cloud transformation or platform engineering roles. You are comfortable exploring new technologies simplifying complex systems and working directly with clients to guide engineering best practices.

• 5 years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering in enterprise or consulting environments.

• Strong expertise with AWS including EKS networking IAM security automation and managed services.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Pulumi CloudFormation).

• Hands-on experience building scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions GitLab CI CircleCI or Jenkins.

• Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting skills (Python Bash or similar).

• Proficiency in containerization and Kubernetes including Helm Kustomize and automated cluster operations.

• Experience implementing GitOps workflows with Argo CD or similar tools.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking ingress controllers load balancers VPC design and service discovery.

• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog Grafana Prometheus ELK or Dynatrace.

• Familiarity with DevSecOps tooling such as SonarQube Snyk Trivy Vault and AWS Secrets Manager.

• Experience with automated testing quality gates and performance testing frameworks (e.g. Testcontainers JUnit/Kotest k6).

• Operating databases and caching layers (RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL DynamoDB Redis).

• Managing API gateways (Kong API Gateway Apigee) and event streaming platforms (Kafka/MSK RabbitMQ SQS).

• Knowledge of chaos engineering resilience testing or policy-as-code (OPA).

• AWS Kubernetes or Terraform certifications.

• You communicate effectively work well in agile teams and thrive in an environment that values continuous improvement sharing knowledge and delivering lasting impact for clients.

What we offer

• Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary you may receive a profit share defined by the companys success in the previous year
• Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 17 offices across the globe come together to create a unique positive and inclusive work culture learning from one another at annual team camps and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.
• Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. Were empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact both personally and for our clients today and in the future.

If you feel you dont meet all the requirements we are still happy to get to know you learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!

We welcome people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender personality national origin race religion colour sexual orientation gender identity age marital status disability or veteran status.