Platform Engineer

Everbridge; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Job summary

Techwan (an Everbridge company) is seeking a Platform Engineer to own standardization, deployment automation, and reliability across Linux and Windows environments. This hands-on role includes on-call activity and opportunities to shape the platform roadmap.

You will design platforms, build Ansible-based deployment automation, and standardize environments while improving provisioning, migrations, and testing. Strong Linux, Ansible, and virtualization expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform engineering experience with DevOps focus.
• Experience supporting production environments.
• Advanced Linux knowledge and Windows Server/IIS experience.
• Strong Ansible expertise essential.
• Scripting in Shell/PowerShell.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitLab, or TFS).
• Git and version-control workflows knowledge.
• Virtualization technologies (VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Incus).
• Understanding of containers, HA architectures, load balancing, networks.
• SQL knowledge (PostgreSQL or SQL Server).
• Fluency in French is required; English beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain platforms across Linux and Windows environments.
• Build reusable deployment automation using Ansible.
• Standardize platforms across internal and customer environments.
• Improve provisioning, upgrades, migrations, testing, and lifecycle management.
• Develop scalable, portable solutions using virtualization and containers.
• Support migrations while maintaining platform stability.
• Integrate automated testing into deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with project managers and engineers.
• Maintain technical documentation and share knowledge.
• Support critical deployments and participate in on-call rotation.
• Help define platform architecture and mentor colleagues as experience grows.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Infrastructure automation

Linux

Windows Server

Ansible

Scripting

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitLab

TFS

Git

VMware

Proxmox

Hyper-V

Incus

Containers

High-availability

Load balancing

Networking fundamentals

SQL (PostgreSQL/SQL Server)

French language

English language

Tools

Ansible

CI/CD tools

Git

VMware

Proxmox

Hyper-V

Incus

Job description

Techwan (an Everbridge company), develops mission-critical command and control systems used by emergency services, public safety agencies, and government organizations. Our technology helps customers respond faster, communicate effectively, and make confident decisions when it matters most.

You’ll take ownership of platform standardization, deployment automation, and operational reliability, helping teams deploy critical applications efficiently and consistently. This is a hands‑on role that include required on‑call activity, with the opportunity to shape our platform roadmap and introduce new technologies and ways of working.

What you'll do:

• Design and maintain platforms across Linux and Windows environments.
• Build reusable deployment automation using Ansible.
• Standardize platforms across internal and customer environments.
• Improve provisioning, upgrades, migrations, testing, and lifecycle management.
• Develop scalable and portable solutions using virtualization and container technologies.
• Support application and database migrations while maintaining platform stability.
• Integrate automated testing into deployment workflows.
• Partner with Technical Project Managers, System Engineers, and the Program Manager.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and share knowledge across the team.
• Support critical customer deployments and participate in a shared out‑of‑hours on‑call rotation.
• Depending on experience, help define platform architecture, mentor colleagues, and lead automation initiatives.

What you'll bring:

• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.
• Hands‑on experience supporting production environments.
• Advanced Linux knowledge and good Windows Server/IIS experience.
• Strong Ansible expertise—this is essential.
• Shell and/or PowerShell scripting skills.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitLab, or TFS.
• Good knowledge of Git and version‑control workflows.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Proxmox, Hyper‑V, or Incus.

• Understanding of containers, high‑availability architectures, load balancing, and networking fundamentals.
• Basic SQL knowledge, ideally with PostgreSQL or SQL Server.
• A proactive, collaborative approach with strong problem‑solving, communication, and ownership skills.
• Fluency in French (must have) & English (good to have)

Why join us?

• Work on mission‑critical technology with a genuine real‑world impact.
• Help shape the future of our platform engineering capability.
• Enjoy a flexible, remote‑first working environment.
• Collaborate on international projects with significant autonomy and ownership.

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About Everbridge

Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respondtoand recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™. For more information, visit our website, read the company blog, and follow us on social media.

Everbridge… Empowering Resilience.

Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, colour, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law