Senior Platform Engineer - Remote-First Cloud Infra Mastery

Academic Key; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobgether Switzerland is seeking a (Senior/Staff) Platform Engineer based in Switzerland to own a critical cloud infrastructure platform, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability for enterprise customers.

You will design, build, and continuously improve systems and tools that empower engineering teams to develop and deploy software efficiently, working across AWS, Kubernetes, networking, and automation.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure, at Senior or Staff level.
• Hands-on production cloud expertise with Kubernetes, cloud networking, and IaC.
• Experience deploying in production with reliability, security, and scalability.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, incident management, and security.
• Experience with startup/scale-up environments and independent problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and evolve the cloud infrastructure platform (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability) to meet availability, auditability, and performance requirements.
• Design scalable, secure infrastructure solutions enabling enterprise-grade reliability and performance.
• Improve developer experience by optimizing workflows, local/preview environments, and deployment processes.
• Lead incident response, troubleshoot, identify root causes, and implement sustainable fixes.
• Automate repetitive manual tasks into self-service tools and streamlined operations.
• Support safe adoption of AI agents with sandbox environments and security controls.
• Drive continuous improvements across platform reliability, security, monitoring, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineers to translate infra needs into platform solutions and guide architectural decisions.
• Take ownership from problem identification through implementation, aligning with long-term business goals.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Observability

Security

Incident management

Automation

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Jobgether Switzerland is seeking a (Senior/Staff) Platform Engineer based in Switzerland to own a critical cloud infrastructure platform, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability for enterprise customers.

You will design, build, and continuously improve systems and tools that empower engineering teams to develop and deploy software efficiently, working across AWS, Kubernetes, networking, and automation.