DevOps Engineer - Integration Platform

About the role

Swiss Post is hiring a DevOps engineer for its Integration Platform, which connects Swiss Post systems across streaming, API management, file transfer and IoT. The platform is used by many Swiss Post applications every day and must run reliably, securely and on a solid cloud foundation. The position is full-time (80-100%) and permanent, based in Bellinzona, Bern, Lausanne or Neuchâtel with home office.

Key responsibilities

• Build, run and continuously improve workloads on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Design and automate infrastructure as code with clean modules and safe, traceable changes
• Deploy changes via GitOps so they are reproducible and transparent
• Investigate incidents end to end across networks, platforms and applications
• Keep the platform observable and stable with metrics, dashboards and alerts
• Work closely with platform and application teams to help them move faster

Required profile

• Solid experience running workloads on Kubernetes, ideally EKS, including networking, ingress, RBAC and resource management
• Strong infrastructure fundamentals: Linux, DNS, TLS/mTLS and load balancing
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or OpenTofu) and GitOps (Argo CD or Flux with Helm and/or Kustomize)
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana and alerting; willingness to take part in on-call and incident follow-up
• Very good spoken and written English; knowledge of another national language is a plus
• Curiosity about Kafka, API management, GCP, Azure, FinOps, data platforms or AI tool integration is welcomed

Required skills

• AWS: VPC design, PrivateLink, IAM with least privilege, IRSA or EKS Pod Identity, KMS, Route 53 and load balancers
• Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform or OpenTofu, Argo CD or Flux, Helm and/or Kustomize
• Prometheus, Grafana, Linux, Go, Python or Bash (automation skills are ideal)

What we offer

• Salary of CHF 118'900 to 133'900 per year at 100% employment, 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 of leave for the second parent, with childcare cost contribution
• Flexible working models, mobile and flexible work, and up to 20 days per year for a workation
• Collective employment contract, free half-fare travelcard, staff credit of up to CHF 500, and staff subscriptions for PostMobile and PostFinance