Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes
- Employment type
- Contract
- Location
- Zürich
- First posted
- IT - Software Engineering
- Zürich
- Contracting
- Full-time
- 01.09.2026 - 31.05.2027
- DevOps, Container-orchestration, CNCF, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, kafka
Your tasks:
- End-to-end Product Ownership for the managed Kubernetes platform from vision and strategy through the roadmap to operation and continuous optimization
- Definition, prioritization and maintenance of the product backlog in close cooperation with the DevOps team and the product management
- Coordination with internal stakeholders, B2B customers as well as other product owners to ensure high customer benefit and aligned product development
- Ensuring a high service quality with regard to stability, performance, security and automation of the platform
- Optimization of the interaction between technology, business requirements and operational operation
- Technical collaboration and sparring with the engineering team on architecture and technology decisions
- Planning and coordination of releases, change management processes as well as customer communication
Your profile:
- Several years of experience as a Product Owner, Service Owner or in a comparable role in a technical environment
- Sound knowledge of Kubernetes as well as cloud, container and GitOps technologies
- Experience with agile methods and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban or SAFe
- Ability to quickly familiarize yourself with new product and technology contexts and to take on responsibility early on
- Strategic mindset combined with a pragmatic hands-on mentality
- Ability to successfully merge technical and functional requirements
- Strong communication, coordination and stakeholder management skills
- High degree of personal responsibility, strength in prioritization and decision-making ability
- Nice to have: Experience as a DevOps Engineer with a focus on container orchestration and platform operation, knowledge of CNCF tools such as ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Cilium, Velero or Kyverno, experience with managed services such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL or Kafka
- Professional experience in service provider, telco or managed service environments.
- Fluent German and English skills
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Posted 8 weeks ago