Cloud Operations Lead — Hybrid Swiss Cloud Ownership

Xelon AG; Zug; Hybrid; CHF 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid working in Zug

Competitive salary

Modern tooling

Product-driven environment

Zusammenfassung

Xelon AG is seeking a Cloud Operations Lead (80-100%) to own the daily operation of our cloud platform: availability, incidents, monitoring, backup and recovery, and the service desk that customers reach first.

You will lead a team of four to six engineers in Zug, manage a multi-hypervisor environment with VMware as the primary platform, and partner with the Head of Platform & Technology on strategy and roadmaps while ensuring audit readiness.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years leading IT operations in cloud, hosting, or service provider environments.
• Hands-on VMware production experience.
• Strong networking, storage and datacenter operations knowledge.
• Fluent German and English, written and spoken.
• Swiss or EU/EFTA work authorisation.

Aufgaben

• Operate and optimise production estate across a multi-hypervisor environment with VMware as primary.
• Own hardware lifecycle, capacity planning and datacenter operations with partners.
• Manage networking, storage, DNS, load balancing and security for the platform.
• Run monitoring, alerting and logging; own backup and disaster recovery.
• Lead the service desk and incident response; ensure clear customer communication.
• Lead and develop a team of four to six engineers; set on-call coverage.
• Move recurring operations to Infrastructure as Code; improve tooling and handover to DevOps.
• Maintain ISO 27001, ISAE and Swiss data sovereignty compliance; keep audit docs.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

VMware hands-on

Infrastructure knowledge

German and English

Work authorisation (Swiss/EU)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Jobbeschreibung

Xelon AG is seeking a Cloud Operations Lead (80-100%) to own the daily operation of our cloud platform: availability, incidents, monitoring, backup and recovery, and the service desk that customers reach first.

You will lead a team of four to six engineers in Zug, manage a multi-hypervisor environment with VMware as the primary platform, and partner with the Head of Platform & Technology on strategy and roadmaps while ensuring audit readiness.