Sr Platform Engineer (80-100% Zurich Hybrid)

Are you a Platform Engineer passionate about empowering developers, automating workflows, and building scalable, reliable systems? Join us as a Senior Platform Engineer and help shape the backbone of our platform, driving innovation, reliability, and developer excellence.

Your Mission

We are seeking for a highly motivated and talented Platform Engineering person to join our growing team. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be a key driver in enhancing our developer experience and maintaining world-class reliability. Your responsibilities will include:

• Elevating Developer Experience (DevEx): Design, build, and maintain internal tools and services that improve the velocity, efficiency, and happiness of our product engineering teams. You'll make the path from code to production seamless and enjoyable.
• Driving Platform Thinking: Champion a "platform-as-a-product" mindset. You'll work cross-functionally to understand internal customer needs and ensure all services are scalable, secure, and easy to consume.
• Embracing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Apply core SRE principles, such as SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction to ensure the reliability and resilience of our critical systems and infrastructure
• Leading Cross-Team Projects: Take ownership of complex platform projects. This includes defining scope, managing dependencies, and communicating progress to successful completion
• Structured Problem-Solving: Tackle difficult architectural and operational challenges with a structured and methodical approach.

This position will give you the opportunity to drive midsize to large projects, right from the concept phase all the way through to production deployment and operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements to the platform infrastructure.

Your Qualifications

As a  successful candidate you will bring 4+ years of experience in a similar position to the table with a proven record in building scalable and resilient distributed systems using modern cloud technologies.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with container orchestration and automation in cloud architectures (Kubernetes, Helm)
• Experience with modern observability principles, stacks and tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager
• Knowledge in GitOps principles and CI/CD tooling
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Worked with at least one public cloud provider (Azure, GCP, AWS, ...) already
• University degree in Computer Science or similar educational level
• Knowledge of Linux system administration, networking concepts and major Internet protocols (TCP/IP, IPsec, SSL, SSH, SMTP, HTTPS, DNS)

Bonus skills and qualifications:

• Experience with services meshes (e.g. Istio)
• Knowledgeable in different database technologies (SQL, time series, NoSQL) 
• Practical knowledge of modern programming languages (Golang, Java)
• Scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python, Bash

Why Join Us?

You will have the autonomy to make a significant impact on our engineering culture and infrastructure. We offer a challenging yet supportive environment where your contributions directly translate into the success of the entire company.

What We Offer: 

Want to join a team that enjoys making secure connectivity simple for our customers? You’ll be among people who believe in: 

Caring PASSIONATELY about keeping our customers safe – We’re dedicated to solving problems. Whatever it takes. 

Thinking UNCONVENTIONALLY to stay ahead – The world never fails to surprise us. So let’s surprise it first. 

Doing the hard work to make things SIMPLE – Craft and hone something that delights in its simplicity. 

Working COLLABORATIVELY to build success – The power of the team will always make us faster and better. 

As a testament to this, Open Systems has been recognized as an outstanding place to work. You’ll be surrounded by smart teams who enrich your experience and provide opportunities you will need to develop your skills and advance your career.  

We look forward to receiving your online application (please note that you need to compress your application into two attachments). Only direct applications will be considered.

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Open Systems is growing and so will you: Apart from on-the-job experience, you will have the chance to complete the Internal Process Engineer Certification to support our Operations team once a week. 

Our team is situated in diverse locations across Switzerland. We work in hybrid model, with at least two days per week in one of our beautiful offices in Zürich and/or Bern.

Come as you are!  We are looking for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Open Systems welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.

About Open Systems

Open Systems is a leading provider of native Managed SASE solutions, converging network and security functions on a cloud-native platform. Founded in 1990, the Swiss cybersecurity company, headquartered in Zurich, supports businesses and organizations in more than 180 countries with a holistic, customer-centric service model that guarantees 24x7 expert support. The combination of an innovative platform, integrated solutions, and excellent service ensures secure, reliable, and worry-free network operations – even within the complex IT infrastructures of global manufacturing companies and NGOs.

This solution delivers reliable connectivity across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, while offering an exceptional user experience through an intuitive customer portal. Powered by a centralized data platform and 24×7 managed services, Open Systems not only enhances security but also boosts operational efficiency and accelerates innovation – enabling secure networks that grow with your business.

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