Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 100% – Basel

Optravis LLC; Basel; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Central Basel office

Learn Kotlin & microservices

Flat hierarchies

Young, motivated team

Attractive remuneration & benefits

Free drinks and fruits

Zusammenfassung

Optravis LLC in Basel is seeking an experienced Infrastructure and Security Engineer to own cloud infrastructure design, implementation and maintenance. This is a hands-on role: you will lead the technical decisions and carry out the implementation and ongoing operational work.

You will collaborate closely with our software development teams to understand their requirements and deliver scalable, cost-efficient solutions, and you will support security and compliance tasks to ensure alignment with

Qualifikationen

• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent education.
• Experience building and operating production infrastructure incl. networking, identity management, storage, monitoring and containers.
• Practical infrastructure-as-code experience; Bicep; Terraform welcome.
• Ability to write and maintain code/scripts using Git, reviews and testing.
• Excellent English communication; other languages a plus.

Aufgaben

• Own defined portfolio of products and internal systems (e.g., Azure main subscription).
• Improve operational lifecycle of assets including maintenance and recovery exercises.
• Design, build and maintain infrastructure components that are clean and compliant.
• Apply least privilege, secure configuration, and robust auditing.
• Implement and operate technical controls and evidence for ISMS.
• Contribute to Operational Plan of the ISMS.
• Support internal IT tasks and productivity tools.
• Explore new technologies and present viable options.

Kenntnisse

MSc in Computer Science

Production infrastructure

IaC (Bicep)

Git & testing

English proficiency

Troubleshooting

Security & compliance

Cost estimation

Ausbildung

MSc in Computer Science

Tools

Bicep

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description

As a member of the Infrastructure and Security team, you will take full ownership of cloud infrastructure design, implementation and maintenance. This is a hands‑on role: you will lead the technical decisions and carry out the implementation and ongoing operational work.

You will collaborate closely with our software development teams to understand their requirements and deliver scalable, cost-efficient solutions.
Additionally, you will be supporting security and compliance tasks to ensure alignment with the Optravis ISMS and its improvement.

Your responsibilities

• Take responsibility for a defined portfolio of products and internal systems such as Optravis’ Azure main subscription.
• Own and improve the operational lifecycle of assigned assets, including scheduled controls, maintenance and recovery exercises.
• Design, build and maintain clean, efficient, reliable, tested and compliant infrastructure components.
• Apply least privilege, secure configuration, protected secrets and useful audit logging in everyday engineering decisions.
• Implement and operate technical controls, maintain evidence and resolve findings with the security/compliance lead.
• Contribute with the Operational Plan of the ISMS.
• Contribute with internal IT tasks, workspace connectivity and internal productivity tools.
• Scout for and experiment with new technologies.

Mandatory Skills

• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent education.
• Experience building and operating production infrastructure, including networking, identity management, storage and managed services, monitoring, containerization, etc.
• Practical infrastructure-as-code experience. We use Bicep; experience with Terraform or comparable tools is welcome if you are ready to adopt it.
• The ability to write and maintain useful code or scripts, using Git, code reviews, and appropriate testing.
• Great verbal and written communication skills in English. Any other language is a plus.
• Sound troubleshooting skills across applications, containers, operating systems, and networks.
• Accountability: you keep commitments, maintain documentation, complete recurring operational tasks, and raise risks early.
• Practical security judgment: You can identify risks, categorize them, explain trade-offs to management, and propose safeguards.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies or products, estimating their expected costs.

Additional Skills

• Azure Container Apps, Front Door/WAF, managed identities and managed PostgreSQL.
• CI/CD, observability and automated security checks.
• Google Cloud.
• Kotlin/Java applications or collaboration with JVM backend teams.
• ISO 27001 or ISAE 3402 environments, including technical controls and audit evidence.

What we are offering

• Central office location right in the heart of Basel
• Learn cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, microservice architectures, ClickHouse and others
• Start-up spirit (flat hierarchies, chill zone with table tennis, after-work drinks on our rooftop terrace)
• A young, motivated, and highly skilled team
• Attractive remuneration and benefits
• Free drinks, fruits, sweets, and team events