Junior DevOps Engineer (100%)
HybridZug, Zug, Switzerland
Job Summary
Maintain and improve Swiss cloud infrastructure systems by managing patches, backups, certificates, and troubleshooting root causes. Support deployment pipelines, migrations, rollbacks, and release coordination using Bitbucket Pipelines and ArgoCD. Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code components with Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform while ensuring configuration consistency across environments. Contribute to observability tooling dashboards and alerting to increase signal and reduce noise. Perform automated security checks and ensure deployments meet compliance requirements for TLS, firewalls, and network policies. Write and maintain technical documentation while sharing knowledge with development and operations teams.
Required Qualifications
- Completed IT apprenticeship (e.g. Informatiker/in EFZ) or comparable education, or first professional experience in IT operations / infrastructure
- Solid Linux/Unix fundamentals – shell, processes, file systems, permissions, and remote access (SSH/RDP)
- Basic networking knowledge (IP, DHCP, DNS, gateways, firewalling)
- First experience with scripting (Bash, with exposure to Python, PowerShell, or Golang)
- Basic understanding of containers (container vs. VM, Docker basics)
- Fluent German and good English, written and spoken
Desired Qualifications
- First exposure to CI/CD and IaC tooling (Bitbucket Pipelines, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible)
- Familiarity with monitoring and security tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, LGTM; SAST/DAST/SCA)
- First contact with Kubernetes, load balancing (Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, Traefik, Keepalived), or OpenStack / GitOps
- Relevant certifications (e.g. CKA, Terraform Associate, RHCE)
- An enthusiastic homelab and a good sense of humor
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