DevOps Engineer

SIX; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SIX is seeking an Application DevOps Engineer to help shape reliable, high-performing application platforms in a modern DevOps environment in Zürich. You will drive automated deployments, GitOps-based delivery, and infrastructure-as-code across cloud and on-premise environments, collaborating with development teams to ensure stable, low-latency operations.

You will implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks, and contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and

Qualifikationen

• Strong DevOps mindset across the software delivery lifecycle and production systems.
• Scripting skills in Python and shell; GitLab CI/CD experience; Ansible and infrastructure-as-code are valued.
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with containerized platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk).
• Clear communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong troubleshooting across applications, Linux/Windows, networking, TLS, containers.
• Fluent English; German and/or Spanish are advantageous.

Aufgaben

• Design, implement, and maintain automated deployment workflows using Ansible and GitLab CI/CD.
• Define and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks to strengthen stability and incident response.
• Develop automation scripts in Python, PowerShell, Perl, Bash, and CMD and work with XML/JSON/XSL as needed.
• Operate and support monitoring and job scheduling platforms such as Patrol, Elastic, Grafana, and Airflow.
• Take operational ownership of production services across their lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Participate in a regular on-call rotation for business-critical production systems and incident response.
• Lead or actively contribute to root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews to drive reliability improvements.

Kenntnisse

DevOps mindset

Python scripting

Shell scripting

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

IaC

Linux fundamentals

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Monitoring tools

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK/EFK

English fluency

German/Spanish advantage

Tools

Patrol

Elastic

Grafana

Airflow

Jobbeschreibung

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.