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Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps / Azure AKS)
M&S Software Engineering · Schlieren, ZH, Switzerland
Schlieren, ZH, SwitzerlandRemote
Remuneration
Success participation; contributions toward personal IT and home-office equipment, mobile phone plans, meals, public transport or parking, and sports or fitness memberships; long-service gift; compensated on-call duty
Location
Schlieren, ZH, Switzerland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Site Reliability Engineer improves the reliability, stability, and performance of a SaaS platform, operating and scaling Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters while supporting application containerization. The role builds monitoring, logging, and alerting; defines SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; investigates incidents; and automates operations and deployments with infrastructure as code and CI/CD. It also includes a planned, compensated on-call rotation of about one week per month, with availability until 10 p.m.
Benefits
Success participationContributions toward personal IT and home-office equipmentMobile phone plan contributionMeal contributionPublic transport or parking contributionSports or fitness membership contributionLong-service giftProfessional and personal development, including certification supportCareer opportunities
Qualifications
- Several years of experience as an SRE, platform, cloud, or DevOps engineer
- Production experience operating Kubernetes, ideally AKS
- Strong Linux experience in production environments
- Experience with Azure and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or OpenTofu
- Confident scripting in Bash, PowerShell, or Python
- Fluent written and spoken German
- Observability stack experience, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Azure Monitor, is an advantage
- Experience with Windows containers or migrating .NET/IIS applications is an advantage
- Knowledge of container and Kubernetes security, such as network policies and image scanning, is an advantage
- Experience in regulated environments such as finance, insurance, or the public sector is an advantage
Responsibilities
- Improve the reliability, stability, and performance of the SaaS platform
- Operate, scale, and develop AKS clusters
- Support application migration to containers
- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting with meaningful metrics
- Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with development and product management, and use them to drive improvements
- Analyze incidents, conduct post-mortems, and ensure lasting fixes
- Automate operations and deployments using infrastructure as code and CI/CD
- Collaborate with architecture, development, and security teams, bringing operational considerations in early
- Participate in a planned, compensated on-call rotation
Skills
AKSAzureAzure MonitorBash.NETGrafanaKubernetesLinuxOpenTofuPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraformWindows
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Azure certifications
Languages
German
Work schedule
On-call rotation of about one week per month, shared with four other team memberPlanned on-call availability until 10 p.m.Part-time work is available
Industry
Social insurance and pension servicesRegulated environments such as finance, insurance, or the public sector
Relocation
No