Systems & IT Engineer (w/m/d) 100%

About the role

Papers is a software engineering company supporting the full lifecycle of web3 products, from concept to software market fit. It is looking for a Systems & IT Engineer (w/m/d) to manage and improve its self-hosted, Linux-based infrastructure on dedicated/bare-metal servers, including CI/CD, Docker, observability, identity and access management and security. Only applicants already living in Switzerland will be considered.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and improve the Ubuntu infrastructure on bare-metal servers, keeping OS and security patches up to date and maintaining self-hosted applications
• Design and maintain GitLab CI pipelines (build images, push to the GitLab Container Registry) and set up and optimize Docker and Docker Compose deployments
• Provision infrastructure with Ansible and define backup and disaster-recovery strategies
• Run the observability stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, Graylog, PagerDuty) and write runbooks for alerts
• Administer Microsoft 365 / Entra ID (identity, MFA, Conditional Access, SSO, email security)
• Own the security posture: SSH/host hardening, firewalls, secrets management, least privilege, access reviews and incident response
• Take part in on-call rotations, including for the Acurast blockchain/bridge infrastructure, and work with backend engineers to streamline integration

Required profile

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE or infrastructure roles
• English fluency, written and spoken
• Self-driven, organized and able to work independently
• Bonus: blockchain/web3 background, Entra ID experience, TIG stack or managed cloud experience, Terraform, open-source contributions, startup scaling experience

Required skills

• Linux (Ubuntu) administration, Docker, GitLab CI, Ansible
• Nginx, TLS, shell scripting (Bash, Python) and networking
• Metrics/alerting and incident response
• Security basics: IAM, host hardening, secrets management, patch management

What we offer

• 25 days of paid vacation per year
• 2 days of home office per week possible
• High ownership, low bureaucracy and influence on DevOps strategy from day one
• Team events and retreats, learning and development support