Systems Engineer: Workload Automation & File Transfer

Forfirm; Lugano; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Forfirm in Lugano, Switzerland seeks a technically skilled systems engineer to join the Workload Automation and MFT team. You will administer, support, and improve enterprise scheduling and file transfer platforms while contributing to upgrades, migrations, and integrations.

The role blends daily operations with engineering work. You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Application, Security, and external vendors, progressively owning platforms and related initiatives in a regulated

Qualifications

• Experience in System Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, Automation, Middleware, or Application Support environments.
• Good knowledge of Linux and Windows systems.
• Experience with Workload Automation solutions (Automic/UC4, Control-M, IBM Workload Scheduler, or similar) and/or Managed File Transfer platforms (Primeur Data One, GoAnywhere, Axway, IBM Sterling, MOVEit, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of secure file transfer and encryption technologies (SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, SSH, TLS, PGP/GPG).
• Scripting experience with Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support enterprise Scheduling and Managed File Transfer platforms.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot jobs, workflows, batch processes, and file transfer flows.
• Handle incidents, perform root cause analysis, and provide technical support to internal teams.
• Administer secure communication technologies, including SFTP, HTTPS, SSH, TLS, certificates, and PGP/GPG.
• Develop automation solutions, scripts, and integrations to improve operational efficiency.
• Participate in platform upgrades, migrations, and implementation of new solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation and support internal and external audits.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and applicable regulatory requirements.

Skills

Linux systems

Windows systems

Workload Automation

Scripting (Bash/Python/PowerShell)

Security practices

Networking concepts

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Tools

Automic/UC4

Control-M

IBM Workload Scheduler

Primeur Data One

GoAnywhere

Axway

IBM Sterling MOVEit

Jenkins

Ansible

Splunk

Dynatrace

Jira

Confluence

REST APIs

Job description

Forfirm in Lugano, Switzerland seeks a technically skilled systems engineer to join the Workload Automation and MFT team. You will administer, support, and improve enterprise scheduling and file transfer platforms while contributing to upgrades, migrations, and integrations.

The role blends daily operations with engineering work. You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Application, Security, and external vendors, progressively owning platforms and related initiatives in a regulated