Kubernetes Engineer - Switch Cloud (80-100% - all identities and backgrounds)

With around 180 employees, Switch supports Switzerland's universities, research institutions, and critical infrastructure organizations on their way to a secure and trustworthy digital age. With innovative IT services, secure infrastructures, expert advice, and the networking of relevant specialist communities, we help our customers effectively and efficiently use the opportunities offered by digitization. We're looking for an experienced Systems or DevOps Engineer to join us in this newly created role in the Cloud Adoption & Reliability Engineering (CARE) team. Our small team is responsible for delivering a Kubernetes as a Service (K8SaaS) self-service platform that is part of the new Switch Cloud, called Switch Cloud Kubernetes (SCK), while also enabling our colleagues and customers to embrace the cloud native world. Key qualifications include: - Kubernetes ecosystem: KubeOne, Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform or any other Kubernetes distributions; Cluster API; Cilium or any other CNI; any ingress controllers; Cert Manager; Velero or Kopia; Flux, ArgoCD or any other GitOps tools; Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Alertmanager or any other monitoring/logging tools; Kyverno or any other policy engines; Trivy, Trivy Operator, Falco or any other security tools; any additional CNCF projects. - Cloud platforms and practices: OpenStack; Hyperscalers or other public clouds; Terraform or Open Tofu; Ansible. - Identity and Access Management: SAML 2.0 or OIDC; Dex or Keycloak. - Collaborative Tools: GitLab, GitHub, Jira, Confluence. - CKA, CKAD, CKS or other relevant certifications (including expired). - Experience with programming and scripting languages. - Agile methodologies and the 12 agile principles. - We have customers in all language regions of Switzerland, thus fluency in German, French, or Italian is highly beneficial. Both Switch and our community have staff who hail from all over the world, so any additional language will come in handy.