DevOps Engineer

SIX Group Services Ltd.; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SIX Group Services Ltd. is seeking an Application DevOps Engineer in Zürich, offering hybrid work with up to 40% remote. You will design automated deployment workflows, enhance monitoring and incident response, and develop automation scripts across Linux and container platforms.

Collaboration with development teams will ensure stable, low-latency production environments. The role requires strong Python/shell scripting, GitLab CI/CD experience, and hands-on work with Kubernetes/OpenShift,

Qualifications

• Experience across the software delivery lifecycle and operating production systems.
• Proficiency with Python and shell scripting; GitLab CI/CD experience.
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Hands-on with production systems and container platforms like Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk.
• Clear communication to explain technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, Linux/Windows, TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, TLS.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated deployment workflows using Ansible and GitLab CI/CD.
• Define and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Develop automation scripts in Python, Shell, and related formats.
• Operate and support monitoring and job scheduling platforms such as Patrol, Elastic, Grafana, and Airflow.
• Take operational ownership of production services throughout their lifecycle.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for production systems.
• Lead or contribute to post-incident reviews and reliability improvements.

Skills

DevOps mindset

Python scripting

Shell scripting

English fluent

Communication skills

Troubleshooting

Linux fundamentals

Network fundamentals

German/Spanish advantage

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/EFK

Splunk

Patrol

Airflow

Job description

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SIX drives the transformation of financial markets.

What sets us apart drives us ahead: between local roots and global relevance, we are a unique blend of tradition and future, of foundation and growth. We value bright minds and inspire them to grow with their ideas. Come and shape the future of finance with us.

Zurich | Working from home up to 40% | Reference 8333

Are you excited by the opportunity to shape reliable, high-performing application platforms in a modern DevOps environment? Do you enjoy combining automation, operations, and innovation to build resilient services that are ready for production at scale? We are looking for an Application DevOps Engineer to help drive automated deployments, GitOps-based delivery, and infrastructure-as-code across cloud and on-premise environments. In this role, you will work closely with application development teams to ensure stable, low-latency, and secure operations while continuously improving deployment workflows, monitoring, and platform resilience.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, and maintain automated deployment workflows using Ansible and GitLab CI/CD.
• Define and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks to strengthen operational stability and incident response.
• Develop automation and integration scripts in PowerShell, Python, Perl, Bash, and CMD, and work with structured formats such as XML, JSON, and XSL where required.
• Operate and support monitoring and job scheduling platforms such as Patrol, Elastic, Grafana, and Airflow.
• Take operational ownership of production services throughout their lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, recovery, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in a regular on-call rotation for business-critical production systems, responding to incidents outside regular business hours when required, and taking ownership of troubleshooting, mitigation, escalation, and service restoration.
• Lead or actively contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews, turning lessons learned into monitoring, automation and reliability improvements.

What You Bring

• Strong DevOps mindset with experience across the software delivery lifecycle and operating production systems.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and shell, along with practical experience using GitLab CI/CD; experience with Ansible and infrastructure-as-code is highly valued.
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking fundamentals
• Hands-on experience operating production systems and containerized application platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift, including deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk, or similar tools in containerized environments.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to explain technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting skills across applications, Linux/Windows, TCP/IP networking, DNS, firewalls, TLS and containerized platforms.
• Fluent English; German and/or Spanish are an advantage.

If you have any questions, check out our FAQ page or call Yuliya Stoyko at [phone] .

Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking to receiving applications regardless of any personal background.

What We Offer

Flexible Work Models
We trust our employees and offer a work environment that is well-balanced, productive and fosters success.

Personal Development
You will benefit from a culture of continuous learning and feedback. Your personal growth is supported through an extensive learning offering.

Agile Working Methods
Whether through scrum or design thinking,
we solve exciting tasks together in teams.