To further grow our Akenza team in Zurich, we are currently looking for a Senior Devops Engineer.

You will be part of our product development team that is responsible for developing, releasing, monitoring and troubleshooting our large-scale microservice-based IoT platform. You enjoy learning new things and are passionate about developing and operating data-intensive applications. You will be maintaining, monitoring and hardening the underlying infrastructure components, build tooling for developers to release and monitor applications and assist the team in daily operations. You are thriving to make a change in a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities.

If you are ready for this challenge, we would be more than happy to meet you!

Your responsibilities:

• Maintain and troubleshoot infrastructure that runs our IoT platform
• Build and maintain tools that allow to efficiently and dynamically release microservices
• Implement new infrastructure components, maintain existing code with a focus on scalability, stability and security
• Help ensure that our IoT platform scales to large amounts of data and runs securely and reliably
• Work closely with both Engineering Lead and Developers to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can best solve them

Your profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• A minimum of two years experience in a devops-related field
• Experience of running workloads on hyper-scaler platforms (Azure, GCP or AWS)
• Experience with systems for automating deployment (CI/CD)
• A good understanding of IaC principles (e.g. Terraform)
• A solid understanding of management of containerized applications and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience in scripting in one or more programming languages (e.g. Bash, Python or NodeJS)
• Passionate about implementing software engineering best practices and processes
• Troubleshooting and creative problem-solving attitude
• Enjoy daily communication and interaction with customers and colleagues in both English and German

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• A good understanding of microservice patterns
• Experience with stream processing tools (e.g. with Kafka)
• Experience building and developing distributed systems and/or experience with compute and data storage technologies
• Experience with IoT technologies (such as LoRaWAN, Nb-IoT, MQTT, or LWM2M)
• In-depth knowledge of software development best practices, Agile and DevSecOps

Our offer:

• A team-oriented work culture with a flat hierarchy and a lot of personal responsibility
• Work in an international team of talented engineers
• Opportunity to have an impact on the growth of a B2B SaaS product
• Honest, no-bullshit attitude
• A fast growing scale-up culture
• Work in the future market of IoT

Who are we:

Akenza AG is a growing Swiss IoT software company headquartered in Zurich Oerlikon and consists of a team of almost 30 people.

We believe that the Internet of Things will fundamentally improve our lives. Our goal is to enable system integrators, service providers and enterprises to quickly realize their IoT projects by providing them with a powerful and scalable IoT platform that makes rolling out an IoT deployment as easy as possible.