Expert Platform & Systems Engineer

avec compétence GmbH; Greifensee; Hybrid; CHF 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Hybrid work model

25 vacation days

Job summary

Laboratory instrumentation is seeking a hands-on technical leader to guide a cloud-ready application platform and its DevOps foundations. The role bridges hardware and software engineering for automated lab systems, driving platform evolution and implementation across hosting, identity, data, and security.

The ideal candidate has deep C#/.NET expertise, strong Azure DevOps/CI/CD experience, and proficient English.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with expert-level leadership.
• Proficient in C# / .NET and modern backend/web development.
• Strong Azure DevOps and CI/CD across build, test, security, packaging, and deployment.
• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience, particularly Terraform.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration, identity, messaging and observability.
• Experience across hardware, firmware, protocols, device software and application boundaries.
• Strong proficiency in English required.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the shared platform behind locally deployed, cloud-ready applications.
• Implement reusable foundations for hosting, identity, configuration, data, messaging and security.
• Own DevOps across the software suite including pipelines, deployment automation and release traceability.
• Define installation, upgrade, rollback, diagnostics and support processes for customer deployments.
• Lead system-level hardware/software integration decisions on protocols, interfaces and diagnostics.
• Lead through implementation, prototypes, reviews and mentoring, partnering with architects.

Skills

C# / .NET

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Containers

English proficiency

HW/SW integration

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Job description

This role provides hands-on technical leadership for a cloud-ready application platform and its DevOps foundations, bridging hardware and software engineering for automated lab systems.

Tasks

• Own and evolve the shared platform behind locally deployed, cloud-ready applications
• Implement reusable foundations for hosting, identity, configuration, data, messaging and security
• Own DevOps across the software suite including pipelines, deployment automation and release traceability
• Define installation, upgrade, rollback, diagnostics and support processes for customer deployments
• Lead system-level hardware/software integration decisions on protocols, interfaces and diagnostics
• Lead through implementation, prototypes, reviews and mentoring, partnering with architects

Profile

• Typically 12+ years of software engineering experience with expert-level technical leadership
• Deep hands-on experience with C# / .NET and modern backend or web development
• Strong Azure DevOps and CI/CD experience across build, test, security, packaging and deployment
• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience, particularly Terraform
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration, identity, messaging and observability
• Experience across hardware, firmware, protocols, device software and application boundaries
• Strong proficiency in English required

Offer

• Flexible working hours and hybrid work model
• 40-hour work week with at least 25 vacation days per year

Company

Laboratory instrumentation