Senior DevOps Engineer

Born from a single question, innovation is in our DNA. Having recently celebrated our 10-year anniversary, we are a diverse and quality-conscious company, which has set itself the goal of transporting temperature-sensitive medicines in a more reliable and sustainable way. Long story short, we help save lives and preserve the environment.

Our goal? To continue to advance towards zero loss in the pharma supply chain, worldwide.

If you are an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, centralized logging, cloud resource optimization, and have the ability to collaborate effectively and document best practices - this is the role for you:

Here's what you'll do:

• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) using tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Manage infrastructure code using Git
• Implement and maintain container platforms using Kubernetes (either as-a-service or self-managed)
• Setup and manage Cassandra clusters for high availability and performance
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and testing
• Configure monitoring solutions and custom dashboards for system and application health
• Setup and manage centralized logging for log aggregation and analysis
• Implement security measures, compliance, and best practices
• Identify and resolve performance issues and plan for scalability
• Design strategies for system availability and data recovery
• Collaborate with teams, document processes, and best practices
• Stay updated with security patches and manage updates effectively
• Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage for cost control
• Investigate and resolve technical issues and participate in incident response
• Stay updated on DevOps trends and technologies
• Evaluate and select tools aligning with DevOps goals

Requirements

This is what you'll need:

• Several years of hands-on experience in DevOps roles (automation, CI/CD, infrastructure management)
• In-depth knowledge of Apache Cassandra, including cluster management, performance tuning, and data replication strategies
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, including administration, troubleshooting, and shell scripting
• Strong understanding of DevOps tools, scripting languages, and cloud platforms (ideally Azure)
• Experience with designing, building, and supporting production and test environments using infrastructure as code (IaaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with container technologies (Docker) and Kubernetes
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements in DevOps environments
• Ability to design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions and creating custom dashboards
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for working with cross-functional teams
• Basic experience with Kafka, a good understanding is an advantage
• Excellent troubleshooting skills to identify and resolve complex technical issues
• Commitment to staying updated on emerging technologies and industry trends in DevOps
• Language: English

Benefits

What we can offer you:

• Remote working
• Flexible working hours for work/life balance
• Interdisciplinary and varied projects
• Diverse and global work culture/ environment
• Possibility to work for an environmentally conscious company
• Unique opportunity to actively shape processes

Why SkyCell:

We are looking for people who challenge the status quo and thrive on making a difference to people and the world around us. That’s where our DevOps team play a pivotal role and you could be a part of it.

SkyCell’s DevOps team manages and provides the infrastructure for our next-generation visibility platform, our global IoT network consisting of tens (and soon hundreds of thousands) of loggers and all our internal systems which keep our business afloat and running like clockwork. The team uses modern, standard technology, is fully cloud-native, moves towards a focus of reliability and security and is proud to be a great and esteemed counterpart of our development teams.

We are Innovative Award Winners:

We’re driven by our core values and guided by our collaborations, purpose, and employees. Our commitment to changing the face of medical supply chains, making them safer, more secure, and more sustainable resonates strongly with every one of our employees; we’re therefore incredibly proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work alongside being awarded a sustainability rating of Platinum by EcoVadis.

If you would like to know more about us, visit www.skycell.ch and search #WeAreSkyCell on LinkedIn.

To become part of our journey and make a difference – click apply and we will be in touch!

Please contact Adriana Lumi, Talent Acquisition Specialist if you have any questions ([email protected]).

SkyCell AG is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, we celebrate and support diversity and are passionate about creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

For this position we only consider direct applications

We are a young, process-oriented and quality-conscious company in growth, which has set itself the goal of transporting temperature-sensitive medicines in a more reliable and sustainable way. Long story short, we help save lives and preserve the environment. If you would like to know how we achieve this, you can find more information at www.skycell.ch.