Senior Platform Engineer at Ricardo.ch (Zug, Switzerland)
Desired Skills and Experience
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Take strong ownership of configuration management, the deployment pipeline and the target hosting environment.
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Build and scale our Kubernetes-based platform, deployment pipelines and persistent services.
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Automate all aspects of our infrastructure, including network, testing and security.
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Responsible for designing and securing the interaction between kernel and containers.
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Collaborate closely with our software engineers.
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Shape the DevOps culture with the team and across engineering.
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Technical leadership of projects and people.
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Operate high-availability production services as an on-call engineer.
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At least 3-5 years of experience operating a production system.
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Must have reliable GNU/Linux skills with multiple years of professional experience.
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Comfortable operating in OSI layers 3 through 7.
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Docker skills required, ideally paired with Kubernetes experience.
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Experienced in any configuration management framework such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Salt.
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Proficient in a programming and/or scripting language.
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Cloud computing providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
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Able to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems.
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Experience with monitoring, alerting and preferably incident response.
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Excellent technical communication skills - documentation, presentations and remote calls.
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Fluent in English, German or French a plus.
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Strong engineering culture, empowerment and trust.
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Working on a very popular product in Switzerland, strong customer interaction.
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Fun working atmosphere with attractive working conditions.
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Central office close to Zug main station with great public transportation.
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Co-workers with international background working with bleeding edge technology.
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X-Box, table football, sports offering over lunch.
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Working part-time or remotely is possible.
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Training budget available for every engineer.
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Weekly time for more free-form experiments and hacking.
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If you need a book, we buy you the book.