Senior Container Platform & Automation Engineer (Basel)

About the role

A well-established financial institution with a long history, international presence and commitment to operational excellence is looking for a Senior Container Platform & Automation Engineer in Basel. You will own the engineering, operation and continuous improvement of enterprise-grade container platforms based on Red Hat OpenShift, combining hands-on platform engineering with automation, operational support and infrastructure optimisation. You will work closely with application, infrastructure and project teams to keep containerised environments stable, secure and scalable.

Key responsibilities

• Operate, maintain and continuously improve enterprise Red Hat OpenShift environments and their supporting platform services
• Design and implement enhancements to existing Kubernetes and OpenShift environments
• Build reliable, scalable platform solutions and develop and maintain infrastructure automation and deployment solutions
• Support application teams with onboarding, deployments and platform-related technical requirements
• Analyse and resolve complex incidents across container, Linux, networking and platform components
• Contribute to platform security, availability, performance and operational resilience
• Take part in change, release and lifecycle management, provide second-level support and join the on-call rotation for business-critical environments

Required profile

• University degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or a comparable field, or equivalent professional experience
• Several years of hands-on experience engineering and operating production-grade Kubernetes and container platforms in complex enterprise environments
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with infrastructure and platform automation
• Strong practical experience administering Red Hat OpenShift; purely theoretical Kubernetes knowledge is not enough
• Fluent English; German is an advantage
• Valid CH work permit or EU/EFTA citizenship, and willingness to work 100% on-site and take part in an on-call rotation

Required skills

• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, cluster operations, networking, SDN, security and workload management
• Hands-on automation and IaC tools such as Ansible, Helm, Kustomize and/or Terraform
• Solid Linux administration, preferably RHEL or CentOS, and Bash or similar scripting
• Experience troubleshooting production incidents and familiarity with CI/CD is highly desirable

What we offer

• Contribution to health insurance and a meal allowance
• Long-term career opportunities in a stable, internationally recognised financial institution
• Exposure to sophisticated private banking and wealth management clients
• Collaborative, professional environment with continuous learning and development
• Modern workplace and competitive compensation