Senior Cloud Architect / Cloud Platform Engineer

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8048 Zürich

IT Architecture

• Permanent employment

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Salary range

120'000 - 130'000 CHF

Potential (2-3 years)

up to 5'000 CHF

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Future employer ##

This company, which is successfully operating in the Swiss energy market, is setting new technological standards. Every person who brings energy, will, and motivation can have a tangible impact here. In their team, in pioneering projects, in the company, as well as in the lives of customers and on the way to a meaningful future.

The internal IT organization is undergoing a profound transformation: They are currently building the Azure Landing Zone and establishing a SAFe delivery process (Scaled Agile Framework) at the same time. In this context, we are looking for a

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Your task ##

• Building and further developing the Azure Landing Zone: Governance, Networking, Identity, Security Baseline as a solid foundation
• Migration and modernization of existing applications from OpenShift to Azure-native container services (AKS or comparable managed container services) including analysis, planning, and step-by-step implementation
• Operation and further development of the container platform: resource management, network, scaling, troubleshooting
• Supporting the data teams in handling Azure and Power Platform services: providing suitable infrastructure, advising on integration and governance, ensuring platform conformity
• Managing cloud-native services according to the requirements of the various teams - with a clear focus on standardization, security, and scalability
• Co-designing Cloud Governance
• Developing and maintaining a modular Terraform framework as a common basis for all cloud resources in the company
• Taking on the Product Owner role: maintaining and prioritizing the backlog, defining standards and quality criteria, coordinating with internal teams on requirements and roadmap
• Building and operating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions: Linting, Testing, Security Scanning, automatic deployment
• Actively contributing to the development of a Security-by-Design culture: Secrets Management, Network Segmentation, least-privilege RBAC

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Benefits ##

• Participation in external training
• Bistro or canteen
• Company vehicle
• Good public transport connection
• Career and advancement opportunities
• At least 5 weeks of vacation
• Responsible tasks

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Your profile ##

• Completed university degree in computer science, system technology, or a comparable field with a focus on infrastructure / distributed systems
• +5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Platform Engineer in an ops-related role
• In-depth, practical Terraform knowledge: module development, state management, workspaces, testing (terratest or similar)
• Experience with Microsoft Azure: architecture, core services, networking, IAM, monitoring
• Knowledge of Kubernetes operation (AKS or other managed K8s): resource management, troubleshooting, Helm
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Modern observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or comparable tools
• Distinct ops mentality: sense of responsibility for running systems, SLO thinking, post-mortem culture
• Very good German and English language skills - C2 (working language: German)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Azure Landing Zone Accelerator or Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
• Knowledge of Azure Policy / Defender for Cloud / Microsoft Sentinel
• Experience in SAFe or another scaled agile framework
• Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-305) or Terraform Associate
• Experience with Chaos Engineering (Chaos Monkey, Azure Chaos Studio) and antifragility principles
• Scripting knowledge: Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation tasks

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Worth knowing ##

• A greenfield cloud mandate: You build the Azure platform from scratch - with real technical design freedom
• A modern toolset and a culture that focuses on automation, infrastructure as code, and observability
• A growing team in a transformation phase with the opportunity to take on responsibility early and shape the team culture
• A meaningful environment: We work on the energy supply of tomorrow in a sustainable, secure, and regionally rooted way
• Attractive employment conditions, training opportunities (certifications, conferences), and flexible working models including home office
• Zürich as a workplace: excellent public transport connection, lively corporate environment