DevOps Engineer/Expert

Start date: asap
Planed Durration: 12 Months (extension possible)
Workload: 80-100%
Contract Type: Contracting
Location: Rotkreuz
Remote: up to 50%

Your Tasks:

• Contribute to RLX infrastructure from all the way to hardware and physical network to buildind and maintaining on-premises HA clusters with all their infrastructure services

• Select, order, assemble and integrate hardware for the infrastructure

• Contribute to the RLX hardware in the loop testing infrastructure

• Create and operate the platform for our high level services (build servers, ci runners, artifact repositories)

• Integrate the infrastructure with external dependencies (compute, storage, network provided by the company and facilities available on site, and also with service dependencies, such as GitLab, GitHub, Artifactory, Slack)

• Create declarative infrastructure as code solution for infrastructure management
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting and inventory management services

• Provide a platform for developer self service, that allows devs to experiment or solution engineers to take over a hardware in a loop device for debugging and testing

• Design a lifecycle management solution for the infrastructure and the hardware in the loop hardware components

• Design, implement, test and maintain the backup, emergency and disaster recovery procedures for the infrastructure and the services

• Integrate cloud and on premises infrastructure and service and Design, build and maintain pipelines (GitHub)

Your Profile:

• 8+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or a related field
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating infrastructure platforms from the ground up, including user-facing services and production environments
• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture, reliability, security, and operational excellence
• Experience collaborating closely with Software Engineers, Solution Architects, Product and Platform teams and Customer-facing technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, drive infrastructure improvements, and influence engineering best practices
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently in fast-paced environments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken)

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Virtualization / Container technologies, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with cloud providers (e.g. AWS) and IaC (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience in Embedded Software, Hardware Drivers, ARM Platform, hardware / software integration
• German language skills are a plus, but not required