DevOps Engineer

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

The role
As a DevOps Engineer, you bridge the world of software development and operations. You help development teams build, test, ship and run software faster and more reliably by automating pipelines, environments and infrastructure.

You work directly with our clients across industries such as finance, insurance, the public sector and industry. Alongside hands-on work, you advise them on DevOps practices and tooling and help them continuously improve how they deliver software. Projects change over time, so you enjoy getting to know new environments, teams and tech stacks.

How you’ll make impact

- You design, build and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines that automate builds, tests, security scans and deployments.

- You set up and automate environments and infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.

- You work closely with development teams, understand what they need and remove friction from their daily work.

- You run and improve containerised workloads on Kubernetes or OpenShift wherever our projects use them.

- You keep development and production environments running smoothly and resolve issues together with development teams and hosting providers.

- You advise clients on DevOps practices, tooling and infrastructure decisions, and help them continuously improve their DevOps setup.

- You balance hands-on technical work with a consulting mindset and build trusted relationships with client stakeholders.

What’s important to us

- You have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, ideally with a background in software development. You're comfortable writing and reading code, and you understand how developers work and what they need.

- You have hands-on experience building and running CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins or TeamCity.

- You have worked with Infrastructure as Code , using at least one tool such as Terraform, Ansible or Bicep.

- You have strong scripting skills (e.g. Shell, PowerShell, Python) and are familiar with software ecosystems.

- You have experience with at least one public cloud platform , ideally Azure. AWS or Google Cloud experience is just as welcome.

- You communicate confidently and enjoy working directly with clients and stakeholders, including explaining technical topics to non-technical audiences.

- You are fluent in English and speak German at a professional level (at least B2).

Nice to have:

- Experience with containerisation and Kubernetes or OpenShift is a strong plus.

- A technical degree (University of Applied Sciences, university, ETH or equivalent).

- Previous client-facing or consulting experience. Experience across different environments, projects or tool stacks.

What we offer

- Work life blend:  we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home

- Profit share scheme:  In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company’s success in the previous year

- Global and Diverse Zühlke community:  witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.

- Committed to development:  we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We’re empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.

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How to Apply

Please remember all applications must be submitted in English only to be considered.

If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.