Cloud Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 8, 2026.
About the team
The Azure Application Hosting team at Swiss Re is seeking a Cloud Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes and Azure Cloud. We accelerate developer teams in the company by providing a standardized application hosting platform. The team is based in Zürich, Switzerland, and Madrid, Spain. We're looking for someone who is ready to contribute to our team's efforts and support Swiss Re's cloud initiatives.
About the role
In this role, you'll engage in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and application hosting using Kubernetes.
Your main responsibility will be to manage, improve and operate our shared application hosting platform for various types of applications in the Azure cloud.
A significant part of your role involves further engineering of the platform, but also ensuring the stability and operability of the platform.
This includes automating operational processes as much as possible.
You will also participate in an on-call rotation, to handle high-priority incidents.
About you
We’re looking for a passionate and engaged cloud engineer to join this amazing team. You will be a problem-solver, eager to tackle challenging technical problems.
To be successful in the role, you need to have these technical skills and knowledge:
- Proficient in managing and operating Kubernetes in a public cloud.
- In depth hands-on experience with Azure, AWS or GCP, ideally Azure.
- Programming experience, ideally Golang.
- Strong with Infrastructure as Code tools and concepts.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Experience in cloud network infrastructure and security concepts.
We're looking for someone with strong hands-on experience in at least two of these three areas: Azure, Kubernetes or Go. You don't need to be an expert in all three, but you should be keen to learn and develop your skills in the third.
For Spain the base salary range for this position is between EUR 42,000 and EUR 70,000 per year (for a full-time role).
The specific salary offered considers:
- the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
- the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience. In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements.
Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits. Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.
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