APPLICATION DEVELOPER / APPLICATION DEVELOPER FIRE DEPARTMENT 80%

For over 200 years, GVZ Gebäudeversicherung Kanton Zürich has insured all buildings in the Canton of Zurich against fire and natural hazard damage and is committed to the protection of people, animals, and property through prevention and intervention. Through our commitment to fire protection, natural hazard prevention, and fire departments, we ensure more safety in the Canton of Zurich.

We are looking for a committed person, starting immediately or by arrangement, as

APPLICATION DEVELOPER / APPLICATION DEVELOPER FIRE DEPARTMENT 80% #

How you can make an impact with us ###

• Operation, maintenance, and further development of our own IT platforms and applications regarding the administration and alerting of the fire departments in the Canton of Zurich
• Conception and implementation of new functions, modules, and interfaces (REST APIs)
• Ensuring availability, performance, and security in ongoing operations
• Construction, maintenance, and further development of CI/CD pipelines and automated tests
• Service and operations management for our applications (incident, change, and release management)
• Technical documentation as well as collaboration with specialist departments, fire departments, and external partners

What you bring to the role ###

• Completed IT training (Informatiker EFZ or equivalent training)
• Experience with GitLab, PHP 8.x, OOP and Design Patterns, REST APIs, SQL and database design, MySQL, Composer, PHPUnit, performance optimization, security best practices
• Further: Experience with the Symfony Framework (a major advantage) and confident handling of Linux environments
• Flexible mindset that can quickly adapt to changing processes and situations
• Open-minded and committed personality with good software engineering know-how
• Proficient German and good English skills
• Desired: Fire department experience

The GVZ is an independent public enterprise and employs around 145 internal and 250 part-time employees. Become part of our team now - attractive working and employment conditions included.

Your benefits ###

Flexibility and freedom

Compensation and social benefits

Mobility and health

Development and career

Do you have questions? ###

We are happy to be there for you:

Klaudia Rzepa
HR Manager
044 308 21 65
klaudia.rzepa@gvz.ch

Technical information will be gladly provided by:

Vasco Avanzini
Head of Alerting & Fire Department Applications
Tel: 044 308 22 32
vasco.avanzini@gvz.ch

Have we piqued your interest? We look forward to your application, which you can submit online via the application button.

Would you like to learn more about us? Visit our website: www.gvz.ch

Work location

GVZ Gebäudeversicherung Kanton Zürich
Thurgauerstrasse 56
8050 Zürich

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