Platform/DevOps Engineer

Advertima; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee participation plan

Individual development budget

Hybrid work with in-person Zurich coll

Job summary

Advertima is expanding its Zurich-based engineering team to build the Audience Intelligence Layer for in-store retail media. You will shape and operate scalable cloud and edge infrastructure and enable self-service delivery with CI/CD pipelines and container workloads.

The role requires five years in DevOps, strong Linux skills, and fluent English, with a hybrid Zurich work setup and collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Five years of DevOps or software engineering with a strong operations focus.
• BSc or MSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible).
• Strong networking fundamentals and distributed systems understanding.
• Scripting in Bash or Python and proficient in GitLab CI or similar.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the infrastructure platform for cloud and edge environments.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for containerized workloads.
• Collaborate with Product, Customer Success, Engineering, ML and Hardware teams.
• Implement secure secret handling and hardened images from the start.
• Join on-call rotation to improve reliability and usability of platforms.

Skills

DevOps with operations focus

Networking fundamentals

Linux system administration

Bash or Python scripting

CI/CD mindset

English fluency

Education

BSc or MSc in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI

Job description

Advertima is building the Audience Intelligence Layer for In-Store Retail Media. We use computer vision, edge computing and distributed AI to make in-store audiences measurable and addressable, with privacy built into the technology.

Our platform spans fleets of edge AI devices, real-time data processing, cloud infrastructure and AdTech integrations. That mix creates engineering challenges across physical stores and software systems. We are growing our core engineering team in Zurich to solve them.

• Solve complex engineering problems. Work across cloud infrastructure, distributed edge environments and AI workloads in real-world retail deployments.
• Shape the platform. Help evolve the internal platform, tooling and practices that allow our teams to build and operate reliably at scale.
• See the impact of your work. Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, hardware, product and customer-facing teams. Your work will affect systems running in stores.
• Grow and share in our progress. We offer an employee participation plan, an individual development budget and a hybrid work setup with in-person collaboration in Zurich.

About Advertima

Advertima is building the Audience Intelligence Layer for In-Store Retail Media. We use computer vision, edge computing and distributed AI to make in-store audiences measurable and addressable, with privacy built into the technology.

Our platform spans fleets of edge AI devices, real-time data processing, cloud infrastructure and AdTech integrations. That mix creates engineering challenges across physical stores and software systems. We are growing our core engineering team in Zurich to solve them.

• Solve complex engineering problems. Work across cloud infrastructure, distributed edge environments and AI workloads in real-world retail deployments.
• Shape the platform. Help evolve the internal platform, tooling and practices that allow our teams to build and operate reliably at scale.
• See the impact of your work. Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, hardware, product and customer-facing teams. Your work will affect systems running in stores.
• Grow and share in our progress. We offer an employee participation plan, an individual development budget and a hybrid work setup with in-person collaboration in Zurich.

Why join Advertima

• Solve complex engineering problems. Work across cloud infrastructure, distributed edge environments and AI workloads in real-world retail deployments.
• Shape the platform. Help evolve the internal platform, tooling and practices that allow our teams to build and operate reliably at scale.
• See the impact of your work. Collaborate with engineering, machine learning, hardware, product and customer-facing teams. Your work will affect systems running in stores.
• Grow and share in our progress. We offer an employee participation plan, an individual development budget and a hybrid work setup with in-person collaboration in Zurich.

Your role

As a Platform/DevOps Engineer, you will build and evolve the infrastructure platform that helps our teams develop, deploy and operate Advertima’s cloud and edge environments reliably and efficiently.

• Build our internal platform. Design, implement and maintain the infrastructure platform for cloud and edge environments.
• Enable self-service delivery. Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for containerized workloads using Docker and Incus, as well as Debian-packaged services.
• Collaborate across teams. Work with Product, Customer Success, Engineering, Machine Learning and Hardware to support scalable production systems.
• Build security in from the start. Apply sound secret handling, hardened system images and strict access management while keeping the developer experience practical.
• Improve platform availability. Join the on-call rotation for platform infrastructure and use production feedback to improve reliability, automation and usability.

What you bring

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• At least five years of experience in DevOps or software engineering with a strong operations focus
• Hands-on experience with containers such as Docker or OCI and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management, such as Terraform and Ansible
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems
• Strong Linux system administration skills and scripting with Bash or Python
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI or similar
• Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Experience managing distributed fleets of edge or embedded devices
• Experience with ARM-based platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson devices
• Experience with secure software delivery, secrets management or system hardening

How we work

We value ownership, curiosity and practical problem-solving. You will feel at home here if you enjoy working independently and across disciplines, communicating openly, giving and receiving feedback, and improving systems as you learn from them. We also value face-to-face collaboration in our Zurich office and at team events.