Kubernetes DevOps Engineer (80-100%)

VSHN, pronounced like “vision,” specializes in supporting software development teams to make their work testable, deployable, scalable, and operable in any cloud environment, with a focus on efficiency and automation. We achieve this by providing self-service platform products like APPUiO and Application Catalog to developers and also by leveraging that to build custom solutions that ease the development and deployment cycle, sharing application operations responsibility through close collaboration with developers.

Your new role: Kubernetes DevOps Engineer

As a Kubernetes DevOps Engineer in our OpenShift Platform Team at VSHN, your primary function is to engineer and maintain our OpenShift product and running clusters. You will be responsible for requirements engineering, building new services, and maintaining and enhancing existing services. The daily operations of the team include reacting to incidents and customer tickets related to our OpenShift services. This involves debugging, customer communication, implementing workarounds, and ensuring follow-up to address the underlying root cause. Outside Swiss office hours, this continues through our follow-the-sun location in Canada and our On-Call organization.

Responsibilities summarized

• Further develop our OpenShift Platform and APPUiO Cloud product
• Onboarding and integration projects for new customer clusters.
• Maintain and improve existing OpenShift instances, including APPUiO Cloud.
• Incident resolution and customer support for OpenShift based services.
• Identify and fix potential bugs in the OpenShift services.

Company culture

As an organization, we thrive on diversity and self-management, orienting ourselves on Agile and Sociocracy 3.0 principles. We emphasize transparency, collaboration, and common goals, valuing Scrum-like workflows in our tech teams. Decisions at VSHN are made collaboratively, valuing reasoned arguments over hierarchical positions - we trust in self-responsibility in everyone, in people who share the responsibility of their team, and that decisions happen with the subject-matter experts, in our teams where we face the day-to-day challenges while getting the best possible support from the wider organization.

Read more about how VSHN is unique in our handbook - one example of how much we value Transparency and live open source as an organization.

This job is for you if

You have:

• A solid understanding and experience operating Kubernetes platforms, ideally Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience running Linux based services.
• A basic understanding of networking technologies.
• Structured but pragmatic working and documentation approach.
• Proficiency in English and ideally German communication.
• The ability to join the On-Call rotation after your onboarding.

You are excited to work in a company with self-managed teams, no bosses, a high degree of support, and opportunities for personal development, where reasoned arguments hold sway over hierarchical mandates and your work makes a real impact.

As a bonus

• You have a Kubernetes cluster in your home-lab
• You know your way around version control (git)
• You have a conceptual understanding of alerting and monitoring
• Prometheus know-how is a plus.
• Experience in working in an agile Scrum team as a developer or engineer.
• Experience providing high quality managed services with a strong customer focus.

What we offer

• VSHN offers great perks and great colleagues.
• If you’re interested, you can grow into new roles by taking on additional responsibilities, working within other roles, or even changing teams over time.
• We live in a culture that enables working remotely and from home (even before COVID-19), we have mandatory on-site events a few times a year, and in general, we love meeting at the office to connect and socialize.
• Like all VSHNeers, you receive a fixed monthly salary and phantom stock options in the company in a fully transparent salary system.

Do you think this sounds interesting? Then hit the “Apply Now” button above, and let’s meet for a casual virtual cup of coffee!

Please note: we don’t work with recruitment agencies, and we’re looking for people with permission to work in Switzerland (Swiss/EU citizens and Swiss residents/work visa holders).