DevOps Engineer

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DevOps Engineer

Zurich|Working from home up to 40%| Reference8333

Are you excited by the opportunity to shape reliable, high-performing application platforms in a modern DevOps environment? Do you enjoy combining automation, operations, and innovation to build resilient services that are ready for production at scale? We are looking for an Application DevOps Engineer to help drive automated deployments, GitOps-based delivery, and infrastructure-as-code across cloud and on-premise environments. In this role, you will work closely with application development teams to ensure stable, low-latency, and secure operations while continuously improving deployment workflows, monitoring, and platform resilience.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, and maintain automated deployment workflows using Ansible and GitLab CI/CD.
• Define and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks to strengthen operational stability and incident response.
• Develop automation and integration scripts in PowerShell, Python, Perl, Bash, and CMD, and work with structured formats such as XML, JSON, and XSL where required.
• Operate and support monitoring and job scheduling platforms such as Patrol, Elastic, Grafana, and Airflow.
• Take operational ownership of production services throughout their lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, recovery, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in a regular on-call rotation for business-critical production systems, responding to incidents outside regular business hours when required, and taking ownership of troubleshooting, mitigation, escalation, and service restoration.
• Lead or actively contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews, turning lessons learned into monitoring, automation and reliability improvements.

What You Bring

• Strong DevOps mindset with experience across the software delivery lifecycle and operating production systems.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and shell, along with practical experience using GitLab CI/CD; experience with Ansible and infrastructure-as-code is highly valued.
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking fundamentals
• Hands-on experience operating production systems and containerized application platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift, including deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk, or similar tools in containerized environments.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to explain technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting skills across applications, Linux/Windows, TCP/IP networking, DNS, firewalls, TLS and containerized platforms.
• Fluent English; German and/or Spanish are an advantage.

If you have any questions, check out our FAQ page or call Yuliya Stoykoat +34 917095993.

For this vacancy we only accept direct applications.

Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking to receiving applications regardless of any personal background.