System Engineer OpenShift (M/F/X)

About the job

Company Description

Talan is an international consulting and technology expertise group that supports and accelerates the digital transformation of its clients through the levers of technology, data, and innovation.

For over 20 years, Talan has been advising and supporting companies and public institutions in defining and implementing their transformation and innovation projects in Switzerland and internationally.

Present on 5 continents in 21 countries, the Group, certified Great Place To Work, has more than 7000 employees.

Equipped with a Research and Innovation Center, Talan places innovation at the heart of its development and operates in areas of technological change such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, Blockchain, to serve the growth of large groups and mid-sized companies in a committed and responsible approach.

By placing "Positive Innovation" at the heart of its strategy, Talan is convinced that it is by serving humans that technology amplifies its impact on society as a whole.

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Job Description

• Design, install and configure Red Hat OpenShift clusters (IPI/UPI, on-premise, virtualized or cloud)
• Deploy, maintain and evolve OpenShift and Kubernetes production environments
• Administer and optimize Unix/Linux systems (mainly RHEL)
• Manage the lifecycle of clusters: upgrades, patching, image and operator management
• Implement best security practices (RBAC, secrets, encryption, policies, audit)
• Ensure storage management (Persistent Volumes, StorageClasses, NAS/SAN integration, Ceph, NFS)
• Configure and optimize network components (CNI, ingress/egress, load balancing, service mesh)
• Set up observability solutions (monitoring, logging, alerting via Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/Loki)
• Implement backup & recovery strategies (etcd, workloads via Velero, DRP/BCP)
• Participate in RUN activities (L2/L3 support): diagnosis, incident resolution, continuous improvement
• Contribute to application migration projects to OpenShift with minimal impact
• Ensure capacity planning, performance and autoscaling of environments
• Write and maintain technical documentation (architecture, procedures, runbooks)
• Participate in on-call duties and ensure service continuity

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of experience in Unix/Linux system administration
• Significant experience with OpenShift or Kubernetes in production
• Good mastery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Strong skills in networking (TCP/IP, DNS, security) and storage (SAN/NAS)
• Mastery of Kubernetes concepts: deployments, services, operators, RBAC, etc.
• Knowledge of security (IAM, SAML/OIDC, policies)
• Experience with monitoring and backup tools
• Ability to operate in complex and critical environments

Additional Information

📍 Residence in Switzerland required