(Senior) Cloud Engineer
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Job Location:
Zug - Switzerland
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Xelon AG we deliver secure scalable and automated Swiss cloud infrastructure for the next generation of digital services. From IaaS to PaaS our platform powers workloads in regulated industries like finance insurance public services and tech. Our solutions combine automation sovereignty and simplicity in one ecosystem.
Were on a mission to become the #1 Swiss Cloud Enabler and were growing a team of people who want to shape the future of cloud infrastructure and software operations.
Tasks
Your Mission
As a (Senior) Cloud Engineer at Xelon you play a central role in ensuring that our cloud infrastructure is reliable scalable and secure. You help design implement and maintain automation pipelines manage environments via infrastructure as code and work closely with software provider and operations teams to enable smooth service delivery.
This is a hands-on impact-oriented role where your contributions will directly influence cloud platform consumers service quality and platform stability.
Your Responsibilities
Operations and Automation
- Assure smooth operations through carefully planned and conducted releases and structured maintenance process
- Automate using modern pipelines solutions following GitOps principles (e.g. GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD FluxCD)
- Use Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu Ansible) to manage cloud platform
- Maintain consistent configurations across environments
Monitoring Logging & Observability
- Operate and assure full observability coverage using solutions (e.g. Prometheus/Loki/Grafana OpenSearch)
- Define alerting standards and incident management workflows
- Enable teams for self-servicing and consuming of observability data
Security & Compliance
- Integrate security solutions (e.g. WAF IDS/IPS DDoS protection)
- Ensure that deployments meet compliance and security requirements
- Collaborate with security officer and software provider on secure configurations
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing
- Write and maintain technical documentation for deployments and infrastructure
- Share knowledge and tooling insights with the team
- Participate in troubleshooting and incident response processes
On-call & Escalations
- Participate in OpsGenie/ITMON rotations (1 week per month); update escalation policies and validate alert routing.
Requirements
Your Profile
- 4 years of experience in Platform DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer roles
- Senior level in Linux systems administration and scripting
- Familiarity with the modern networking technologies
- Familiarity with the major cloud providers (AWS GCP Azure) and FOSS cloud software solutions (OpenStack CloudStack)
- Proven expertise in virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware vSphere KVM Proxmox or Hyper-V) and managing virtualized infrastructure at scale
- Strong competence in containerisation solutions (OpenShift Kubernetes Docker)
- Experience with the storage solutions (SAN NAS SDS offerings like Ceph Simplyblock Longhorn)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation and Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Familiarity with monitoring and security tooling
- Systematic structured approach and collaborative team player mindset
- Communication: fluent in German and English.
- Location: based in Switzerland (hybrid/onsite as needed) able to participate in on-call.
Bonus Points
- Experience with OpenStack GitOps workflows
- Experience with GPU workflows
- Background in software development (Go Python Java)
- Certifications (e.g. CKA Terraform Associate RHCE)
- Experience in regulated industries (finance health govtech)
- Fluent in Swiss-German
Benefits
What we offer
- A hands-on Cloud Engineer role with room to grow into technical specialisation
- Mentoring by experienced Leads and collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Hybrid work model with flexibility and modern tooling
- Competitive salary
- A product-driven environment with purpose clarity and ownership
Curious to learn more Ready for your next challenge
Apply now wed love to hear from you Team Xelon
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
At Xelon AG, we deliver secure, scalable, and automated Swiss cloud infrastructure for the next generation of digital services. From IaaS to SaaS, our platform powers workloads in regulated industries like finance, insurance, public services, and tech. Our solutions—Xelon Cloud, Xelon ... View more
