Senior Platform Engineer

SwissPeak Partners; Basel; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SwissPeak Partners is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our container platform built on Red Hat OpenShift. You will join a skilled team to design and operate scalable infrastructure, applying IaC practices and modern deployment patterns.

Based in Basel and part of a Swiss organisation with an international footprint. The ideal candidate has hands-on OpenShift operations, Kubernetes, Terraform/Ansible/Helm experience, strong Linux (RHEL), and fluent English.

Qualifications

• Hands-on OpenShift operations with networking, security and service mesh.
• Several years with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Strong Linux skills, ideally on RHEL.
• Fluent English; German is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the company's container platform on OpenShift.
• Design and evolve architecture of environments during the modernisation.
• Apply IaC practices to automate deployment and configuration.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform security and reliability.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux (RHEL)

Infrastructure as Code

English Fluent

Analytical mindset

German language advantage

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Job description

For one of our clients, a well-established Swiss organisation with an international footprint, we are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with strong OpenShift and infrastructure automation experience.

You will join a skilled engineering team that builds and runs the company’s container platform. You will help design and evolve the architecture of several key environments, at a time when the technology landscape is going through a significant modernisation.

We are looking for senior engineers who will bring their own best practices and ideas and help shape how the platform grows. The ideal candidate has several years of experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management and Kubernetes deployments, along with hands‑on experience running Red Hat OpenShift.

• Hands‑on experience operating Red Hat OpenShift, including networking, platform security and service mesh.
• Several years of experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible or Helm.
• Strong Linux skills, ideally on RHEL.
• A proactive, analytical approach to solving problems.
• Fluent English; German is an advantage.

If you want to join a stable organisation that keeps investing in its technology, with IT central to the business, this could be the right next step for you!