Senior Systems Engineer – Platform & AI-Driven Infra

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL; Vaud; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EPFL is seeking a Systems Engineer for the School of Engineering (STI) to advance infrastructure, automation, and scalable services for research and education. You will lead automated provisioning, AI-assisted tooling, and secure operations across Linux, Windows, and virtualization platforms.

You will collaborate with STI AdminITs and EPFL central IT to deliver resilient IT services, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement in platform engineering.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in system or infrastructure engineering.
• Fluent in French and English (minimum B2).
• Hands-on DevOps, IaC, automated provisioning.
• Strong programming with Python, shell, PowerShell.
• Proficient with Linux and Windows servers.
• Experience with virtualization and containers.
• Experience with IT governance, security and compliance.
• Experience with enterprise storage, AD, NFS/SMB.
• Experience with data centre infrastructure.
• Proficient in configuration management and CI/CD.
• Strong networking knowledge; team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Apply SRE practices to improve reliability and observability.
• Escalate and resolve complex incidents including IT security.
• Guide STI AdminITs on best practices and incident response.
• Serve as technical reference for accreditation and access control.
• Design automated infra services and standard provisioning workflows.
• Enhance security and resilience via vulnerability management.
• Provision and manage storage resources for STI labs.
• Develop automated deployment workflows using IaC, CI/CD.
• Provide expert-level consult on long-term infra solutions.
• Integrate AI-assisted tools while ensuring data protection.
• Coordinate with EPFL central IT for strategic delivery.

Skills

Bilingual FR/EN

DevOps practices

Infrastructure as Code

Python

PowerShell

Shell scripting

Linux

Windows Server

CI/CD pipelines

Networking fundamentals

IT governance & security

Data centre operations

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Active Directory

VMware

Git

Job description

EPFL is seeking a Systems Engineer for the School of Engineering (STI) to advance infrastructure, automation, and scalable services for research and education. You will lead automated provisioning, AI-assisted tooling, and secure operations across Linux, Windows, and virtualization platforms.

You will collaborate with STI AdminITs and EPFL central IT to deliver resilient IT services, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement in platform engineering.