Senior System Engineer Big Data Platforms

What you achieve

You help us keep the in-house big data monitoring and anomaly detection platform on the cutting edge and always-on. We are a team of polyglot software engineers, DevOps and data scientists, always learning and pushing limits in analyzing data from various sources, to deliver real-time insights into service quality.

You keep finding ways to automate daily operations and increase the reliability of our systems. By combining strong software engineering skills in distributed systems with creativity, you evolve the scalability, resilience, performance, availability, security, multi-tenancy and self-service of our platform. With you, we improve the resilience of data processing pipelines and keep high uptime for our Druid cluster. Improving the CI/CD of our OSS tools and our own software products is part of your routine. As a polyglot engineer, you leverage current technologies and keep the operations footprint low. Together, we optimize the performance and reliability of our microservices.

Why you succeed

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or related field
• Strong Linux system administration skills
• Excellent skills in CI/CD, automation and scripting (Jenkins, Ansible, bash, Git), software development skills in Python
• Knowledge of database operations, preferably SQL (e.g. MySQL Galera cluster) and NoSQL (e.g. Druid cluster), experience in operating and maintaining BI tools (e.g. Metabase)
• Well-versed in monitoring and performance tuning of software applications and big data pipelines (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk), operating and tweaking OSS stacks
• Hands-on experience with microservices architectures, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop (Yarn/HDFS), and Kafka (consumers/producers) is a plus
• Solution-oriented, enthusiastic, flexible, and proactive person, eager to learn and try new technologies, data, and tools
• Very good English, German or French a plus

Curious to know more?

As Site Reliability Engineer Big Data Platforms
... you start as soon as possible
... you can partly work from home
... you travel up to 20% of your working time within Switzerland

We intend to fill this position without involvement of external recruiting or placement companies.

Contact

Erandi
+41-79-220 94 27

Job number

6700

Group unit

Swisscom (Schweiz) SA

What to expect

Fair working conditions

Fair working conditions

You benefit from the progressive employment conditions of the Swisscom Collective Employment Agreement (CEA). Salaries at Swisscom are fair and market-driven with bonuses for good performance. Our salary system is transparent.

Generous employee benefits

Generous employee benefits

Through its pension fund comPlan, Swisscom offers you extensive pension plans with individual savings options. We guarantee generous continued salary payments in the event of illness or accident.

Working world

Working world

Swisscom actively promotes innovation and continuous improvement and you share in shaping these processes. We work in interdisciplinary teams. Co-working, prototyping and agile working methods are rooted in our culture.

Flexible working

Flexible working

Our flexible, part-time or job sharing working models let you achieve a healthy work-life balance. And because travel broadens our horizons, you can either apply for unpaid leave or purchase up to two weeks of additional holiday per year.

Work and family

Work and family

Helping you optimally combine your work and family life is very important to us. Swisscom provides for 18 weeks of maternity leave and 3 weeks of paternity leave. Our childcare programme assists you with matters related to taking care of your children, while the Work & Care programme lets you take care of sick family members.

Fringe benefits

Fringe benefits

We offer you a generous monthly discount on certain Swisscom products. You also benefit from discounted tickets and travel cards on public transport. The healthy, low-cost meals that you can enjoy at our staff restaurants are an additional benefit.

Fair working conditions

You benefit from the progressive employment conditions of the Swisscom Collective Employment Agreement (CEA). Salaries at Swisscom are fair and market-driven with bonuses for good performance. Our salary system is transparent.

Generous employee benefits

Through its pension fund comPlan, Swisscom offers you extensive pension plans with individual savings options. We guarantee generous continued salary payments in the event of illness or accident.

Working world

Swisscom actively promotes innovation and continuous improvement and you share in shaping these processes. We work in interdisciplinary teams. Co-working, prototyping and agile working methods are rooted in our culture.

Flexible working

Our flexible, part-time or job sharing working models let you achieve a healthy work-life balance. And because travel broadens our horizons, you can either apply for unpaid leave or purchase up to two weeks of additional holiday per year.

Work and family

Helping you optimally combine your work and family life is very important to us. Swisscom provides for 18 weeks of maternity leave and 3 weeks of paternity leave. Our childcare programme assists you with matters related to taking care of your children, while the Work & Care programme lets you take care of sick family members.

Fringe benefits

We offer you a generous monthly discount on certain Swisscom products. You also benefit from discounted tickets and travel cards on public transport. The healthy, low-cost meals that you can enjoy at our staff restaurants are an additional benefit.