Platform Reliability Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & GitOps

Swiss Post; Ticino; Hybrid; CHF 119,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Six weeks holiday

Workation days

Flexible working

Family-friendly leave

Public transport benefits

PostMobile subscription

Job summary

Swiss Post in Bellinzona/Bern/Lausanne/Neuchâtel and via home office seeks a Platform Engineer for its Informatics and Digital Business unit. You will build, run and optimize workloads on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring reliability and a solid cloud foundation across integrations.

You design infrastructure as code, roll out changes with GitOps, monitor with Prometheus and Grafana, and collaborate with platform and application teams to move initiatives forward.

Qualifications

• Experience running workloads on Kubernetes (preferably EKS).
• Hands-on AWS with VPC design, PrivateLink, IAM and IRSA/EKS Pod Identity.
• Solid infrastructure fundamentals including Linux, DNS and TLS/mTLS.
• Experience with IaC such as Terraform or OpenTofu and GitOps tools.
• Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana; willingness to participate in on-call.
• Strong English skills; knowledge of another language is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build, run and improve workloads on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Design and automate infrastructure as code with modular, safe changes.
• Roll out changes via GitOps to ensure reproducibility and transparency.
• Investigate issues end to end across networks, platforms and applications.
• Keep platform observable with meaningful metrics, dashboards and alerts.
• Collaborate closely with platform and application teams to accelerate delivery.

Skills

Kubernetes (EKS) experience

AWS experience

Infrastructure fundamentals

GitOps

Monitoring and alerting

English proficiency

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

Prometheus

Grafana

Go

Python

Bash

Linux

TLS/mTLS

Job description

Swiss Post in Bellinzona/Bern/Lausanne/Neuchâtel and via home office seeks a Platform Engineer for its Informatics and Digital Business unit. You will build, run and optimize workloads on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS), ensuring reliability and a solid cloud foundation across integrations.

You design infrastructure as code, roll out changes with GitOps, monitor with Prometheus and Grafana, and collaborate with platform and application teams to move initiatives forward.