ICT System Specialist, Network & Infrastructure (80-100)

About the BIIE

The Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering is an independent non-profit research institute dedicated to transforming global child and adolescent health. Operating in strategic partnership with ETH Zurich and the University of Oxford we are building a research environment of international standing - from the ground up.

What makes this job different

Were not building yet another enterprise network. Were building the digital backbone of a research institute taking on some of medicines hardest problems: immune diseases global child health biomedical breakthroughs.

Whether youre ambitious and ready to take real ownership of a network for the first time or youre a seasoned specialist/expert whos tired of polishing the same old infrastructure and wants to build something from scratch. Both belong here.

The Role: Build Connect and Grow Together

We are looking for an ambitious network-savvy IT professional with a bit of a nerd heart and a clear out-of-the-box mentality. As our ICT System Specialist you will support the Head of IT in designing operating and evolving our entire IT infrastructure.

Whether you are an ambitious IT generalist ready to step up and take ownership of our network or a seasoned network specialist who is bored of just polishing the same old enterprise network and wants to build something newyou will find your place here. While you will wear multiple hats and handle broad IT operations your true playground and primary developmental focus will be our network architecture. You will take ownership of our connectivity managing the LAN WLAN VPNs firewalls and ISP relations to ensure the data that powers our research flows securely and seamlessly.

This is not a role where you hide in the server room. We are a hands-on team. You must be open to helping users with first-level support and yes sometimes even sorting the cables under a return you will help build a new state-of-the-art infrastructure for our interim hosting at ETH D-BSSE and our future purpose-built research facility launching in 2027.

Tasks

What You Will Do

In this role you will take hands-on control of our wired and wireless network infrastructure. You will act as the mastermind behind our LAN WAN and enterprise WLAN ensuring highly available and lightning-fast connections. Your responsibilities extend to perimeter defense and security where you will configure and manage firewalls set up secure VPN access for our global research partners and implement robust access control lists (ACLs) and endpoint protection to safeguard invaluable biomedical data.

Beyond the network you will serve as the primary technical contact for our ISPs and play a crucial role in setting up and operating our in-house datacenter including a planned backup site. You will also provide holistic IT operations support delivering responsive high-quality first and second-level assistance for our scientific and administrative teams across Linux Windows and macOS environments. You make sure the technology works flawlessly so our scientists can focus entirely on their research. Furthermore you will actively participate in strategic IT projects from cloud integrations to system rollouts bringing fresh ideas and new technologies to the table.

Your playground

• Full ownership of LAN WLAN VPN firewalls and ISP relationships
• Co-building our in-house datacenter (plus a planned backup site)
• Cloud integrations system rollouts and security architecture First- & second-level support for our international research teams

Requirements

What you bring

• Solid IT foundation: networking is your thing or its becoming your thing
• Builder mindset: you want to create not just maintain
• Curiosity for scientific IT requirements Communication skills to work with researchers from around the world

Benefits

What you get

Mentorship room to grow an international community and the rare opportunity to shape an institute from the ground up.

No maintain the legacy stack. No well review that internally. No silos. Instead: real ownership real impact a team that wants you to grow and regular moments where you look around and think: We built this.

For questions about the role please contact Loreno Calisse Head of IT at