DevOps Engineer (Groupware Focus)

Do you want to work on highly secure, mission-critical infrastructure where reliability, automation, and secure communication matter?

Our client’s Bern-based Cyber Defense team is strengthening Switzerland’s sovereign cyber resilience by building advanced, open and future-ready capabilities for protecting critical national infrastructure. Within a highly skilled engineering environment, you will work with Linux-based systems, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps technologies, with a particular focus on groupware, email hosting, and messaging services.

Would you like to bring in your expertise, curiosity, and problem-solving mindset and commit yourself together with the team to a shared mission? Then we look forward to hearing from you!

Your Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate secure, open-source groupware and collaboration services, including email hosting, file sharing, messaging, and online document editing
• Build and maintain Linux-based infrastructure and containerized applications in an on-premise private cloud
• Integrate and operate identity and directory services, including LDAP, OIDC, and authentication mechanisms
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deploy applications in Kubernetes environments
• Operate supporting services such as databases, storage, monitoring, logging, backup, and recovery
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, container, operating system, and networking layers
• Continuously improve service reliability, security, automation, and operational efficiency

Your Profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux system administration and open-source infrastructure
• Experience operating self-hosted email, groupware, or collaboration platforms in production environments
• Solid understanding of networking and communication protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, and TLS
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, CI/CD, and scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, or similar)
• Familiarity with directory services and identity management (LDAP, OIDC, SAML) is an advantage
• Strong problem-solving skills, an ownership mindset, and the willingness to investigate issues beyond high-level abstractions
• Swiss citizenship is required