DevOps Engineer - Network Monitoring

WHO WE ARE?

Being the daughter company of Swisscom - leading telecommunications company and one of the most sustainable and innovative companies in Switzerland - we share the same values, vision and goals.

As a trustworthy and efficient Swisscom IT service partner, we create valuable customer experiences. We work in a strong collaboration with our Partners in Switzerland and attract and retain high performers.

We're expanding our footprint in Riga and actively seeking 50+ DevOps Engineers to join our growing teams within this year.

We invite driven professionals to join us, grow with us, and help shape the future.

The team/project: At Swisscom, we provide a range of innovative networking solutions to our B2B customers, leveraging network virtualization to deliver services such as EC (swisscom.ch/ec) and BNS (swisscom.ch/bns) and many more. These services rely on thousands of virtual routers and firewalls running on our internal IaaS clouds, generating over 1 million metrics every 5 minutes. To effectively manage and analyze this vast amount of data, we aim to utilize big data approaches to aggregate, correlate, and identify anomalies. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in both leading and supporting the development and implementation of monitoring business logic, ensuring the smooth operation of our systems and enabling efficient detection of customer service issues.

As a part of the team, you will:

• Contribute to the development of a robust and scalable monitoring platform that meets the evolving needs of our customers and business

• Maintain and participate in the rollout of new platform versions aiming to continuously improve our monitoring capabilities

• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary DevOps team in a SAFe context to achieve shared goals and deliver high-quality results

• Work with various Cloud and IT systems based on Kubernetes, Openstack, Zabbix and Flink just to name a few!

What we offer:

• Salary from 2300 to 5500 EUR monthly gross

• 80 EUR monthly cell phone and internet allowance

• Flexible schedule and possibility to work in hybrid mode

• Ergonomic home office allowance in value of 500 EUR

• Possibility to work abroad for 4 weeks each year

• Premium health insurance after 1 month (with included consultations with psychologist or psychotherapist)

• Optics (200 EUR every 2 years)

• 24 working days of annual paid holiday per year

• 5 dedicated paid learning day’s annually

• Gym membership or swimming pool/water aerobics membership

• Day off on your birthday or names day

• 1 day off for social activities (voluntary project, adopting an animal)​

• Collaborative, friendly and driven work environment

• Work on innovations, cutting edge technologies and in autonomous high performance teams

• Parking options

• Continuous development environment that fosters your growth (conferences, cross-department experience sharing, learning platforms etc.)

• Annual salary review

• Solid automation know-how (Ansible or other IaaC/CaaC tools)

• CI/CD experience (Git, Jenkins and preferably Gitlab Pipelines)

• Solid knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)

• Experience with coding & scripting (Python, Bash)

• Effective communication skills in English

• Curious, open mindset with strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Team player who is eager to learn and open to share knowledge

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity of monitoring tools (Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus)

• Understanding of network fundamentals (Netconf, SNMP, routing protocols, switching, IP addressing)

• Experience with Kafka or other message brokers

• Experience in programming streaming pipelines and real-time data processing (Apache Flink, Spark)