DevOps Engineer
Summary
This DevOps Engineer role involves building and operating cloud platforms, developing Golang backend services, and managing CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes. The position requires fluency in German and English and focuses on automating infrastructure and maintaining scalable services.
Language: Fluent German and English required
We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join an exciting project based in Zurich. You'll play a key role in building and operating a modern cloud platform, developing scalable backend services, automating infrastructure, and working with the latest Kubernetes technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain Golang-based backend services for orchestrating Kubernetes environments.
- Design and integrate REST APIs and GraphQL services.
- Build and enhance frontend components using React and Material UI.
- Implement workflow automation and orchestration using Temporal.
- Build, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Manage monitoring, logging and alerting across cloud environments.
- Work with PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Kafka.
- Automate provisioning and configuration using Ansible, Helm and Kustomize.
- Operate and continuously improve business-critical platforms following the "You build it, you run it" DevOps philosophy.
Required Skills:
- Strong commercial experience with Golang.
- Excellent knowledge of Kubernetes and containerised environments.
- Experience designing REST APIs and GraphQL.
- Strong DevOps background with GitLab CI, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with React and Material UI.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Kafka.
- Experience with Ansible, Helm and Kustomize.
- Fluent German and English communication skills.
Nice to Have skills:
- Terraform or Argo Workflows
- Observability platforms (Thanos, S3 Iceberg, Parquet)
- SAP integrations or billing systems
- Vault or OpenBao
- Elasticsearch or Meilisearch
- CLI development with Cobra
- OCI standards
- RBAC and multi-tenancy architectures
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation (Pikett)
If you're an experienced DevOps Engineer looking for your next contract opportunity in Zurich and have the required German language skills, I'd love to hear from you.