DevOps Engineer - AI-First Development (AWS)

About the role

Swiss Post is building a greenfield AWS platform for its cloud-based file transfer backbone, which exchanges thousands of files daily with partners, customers and internal systems. The role is a single engineer working with AI agents from day one, setting the technical direction, reviewing AI-generated output critically and taking ownership of what goes live. It is full-time (80-100%) and permanent, based in Bellinzona, Bern, Lausanne or Neuchâtel with home office.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement the cloud-based file transfer platform end to end on AWS Transfer Family, including SFTP, FTPS and AS2.
• Build supporting components with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CDK) and AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, S3, SQS, EventBridge and DynamoDB.
• Automate partner onboarding, user and key management and CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate security and compliance through IAM, encryption, security policies, auditing and logging.
• Ensure reliable operations through monitoring, alerting and structured troubleshooting, with on-call ownership when things go wrong.
• Use AI tooling to generate code, tests and documentation, review the results and decide what is ready to go live.
• Share learnings with the team, help shape how AI is used in engineering and work with the Product Owner and platform specialists on architecture and the roadmap.

Required profile

• Hands-on AWS experience, ideally with AWS Transfer Family or similar file transfer services (SFTP, FTPS, AS2).
• Strong foundation in networking, security and Linux, able to identify root causes of incidents.
• Hands-on experience with AI assistants in day-to-day coding and critical assessment of their output.
• Ownership of work, curiosity about MFT products, event-driven architectures and Kafka, and very good spoken and written English; knowledge of another national language is a plus.

Required skills

• Solid Python, TypeScript or Java skills.
• Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD experience.

What we offer

• Salary of CHF 118'900 to 133'900 per year (100% level), depending on experience and skills.
• Six weeks of holidays, basic and advanced training, and promotion opportunities.
• 18 weeks of fully paid maternity leave and four weeks for the second parent, with childcare cost contributions.
• Flexible working models, mobile and flexible work, home office, part-time work and job sharing.
• Workation of up to 20 days per year, a collective employment contract, free half-fare travelcard, and staff subscriptions for PostMobile and PostFinance.
• Up to CHF 500 of staff credit for Postshop, SBB and Reka products.