Sysadmin/Platform Engineer (60–80%)

Liip; Basel; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Self-organisation at all levels

Flexible workload

Fair and transparent pay

Culture: the #liipway

Office centrally located

More goodies

Job summary

Liip, a Swiss digital agency with around 200 experts, invites you to join as Sysadmin / Platform Engineer in Basel. You will run and look after our infrastructure—Linux hosts, Kubernetes clusters and the GitLab platform—supporting our in-house development teams.

You’ll keep systems up to date, perform upgrades, backups, monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and help deploy Django, Drupal and Vue.js projects. English is commonly used; German Swiss is a plus.

Qualifications

• Solid Linux administration experience (Debian/Ubuntu).
• Production Kubernetes experience (Helm, ingress, upgrades, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Experience deploying Django, Drupal or Vue.js projects.
• Strong interest in security and cyber risk.
• Interest in sustainability and digital sovereignty.
• English fluency; German Swiss language skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Run and maintain Linux hosts, Kubernetes clusters, and GitLab platform.
• Keep systems up to date with upgrades, backups, monitoring and alerting.
• Help dev teams deploy Django, Drupal and Vue.js projects smoothly.
• Collaborate with Swiss hosting providers prioritizing sovereignty and sustainability.
• Document knowledge to share across the team.

Skills

Linux administration

Kubernetes

GitLab

Prometheus/Grafana

Django/Drupal/Vue.js deployment

DNS/TLS/reverse proxies

English (fluent)

German/Swiss German (a plus)

Tools

Debian/Ubuntu

Helm

Ingress

GitLab runners/pipelines

Backups/Monitoring tooling

Job description

'Hallo' from Zurich, Bern, Basel and St. Gallen, 'Salu' fromt Lausanne and Fribourg: we are Liip, a Swiss digital agency with a strong mindset. Around 200 experts in strategy, creation and development working in an agile way in self-organised teams using Holacracy. This means no bosses, just lots of entrepreneurship and drive – and always with a social, environmental and economic impact. We have been doing this since 2007. This is valued by not only us, but also customers and award panels. How about you?

A day as a Sysadmin / Platform Engineer

• You run and look after the infrastructure our teams rely on every day: Linux hosts, Kubernetes clusters and our GitLab platform

• You keep things up to date and reliable, including cluster and GitLab upgrades, runners, backups, monitoring and alerting with Prometheus/Grafana

• You help our dev teams deploy and run Django, Drupal and Vue.js projects smoothly, so they feel supported, not blocked

• You work with Swiss hosting providers such as Infomaniak, Exoscale and nine.ch, and help us make good choices for sovereignty and sustainability

• You write things down as you go, so knowledge is shared across the team instead of living in one head

Your profile as a Sysadmin / Platform Engineer

• You have solid Linux admin experience (Debian/Ubuntu) and good fundamentals in DNS, TLS, reverse proxies and secrets management

• You have run Kubernetes in production (Helm, ingress, upgrades, Prometheus/Grafana) and administered GitLab or a similar platform (runners, pipelines, upgrades, backups)

• You deeply care and are passionate about the recent evolution in terms of security and cyber risk in general

• You know how to deploy Django, Drupal or Vue.js projects (deploying, not developing)

• You care about sustainability, digital sovereignty and open source. Knowing the Swiss hosting landscape is a big plus (for example Infomaniak, Exoscale, nine.ch)

• You speak English and ideally German or Swiss German fluently, French is a bonus

Your goodies

• Self-organisation at all levels

• A flexible workload that can be tailored

• Fair and transparent pay

• Our culture, we do it the #liipway

• An office centrally located

• More goodies

See for yourself at Kununu and Glassdoor.

Because English is commonly used at Liip, our job offers are written in English. If you feel more comfortable to apply in German, you are welcome to do so.

In this position, we do not cooperate with recruiting agencies.

Please note that we don’t consider applications from non-EU/EFTA countries.