Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer

NICE TO MEET YOU!

YOUR PROFILE

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or Platform Engineering role.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform) and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid programming and scripting skills in languages like Python, Go, or Typescript.
• Proven experience managing high-availability production systems with 99.9%+ uptime.
• Strong skills in observability (monitoring, logging), incident management, and security best practices.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills, with experience working in agile, cross-functional teams.
• A problem-solving mindset with a relentless focus on automation and efficiency.
• Nice to have: Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), supporting IoT or ML/Data pipeline infrastructure, or relevant cloud certifications 
• Fluent in English (German and French are a plus).
• Non-smoker - we don't want you to smell like cigarettes, neither at work nor at customer meetings. After all, FELFEL is about good food.
• Valid work permit or Swiss passport.

OUR BENEFITS

• Lots of delicious food, just a few steps away from your desk - we make your gastronomic dreams come true
• Best barista coffee and tea for the whole team, thanks to our innovative Gavetti coffee machine
• 5 weeks holiday per year, as well as two full weeks of ‘work from anywhere’ per year to bring more variety to your work day
• We encourage our employees to use public transport by covering your half-fare travelcard
• New parents get 16 or 3 weeks, respectively, of fully paid parental leave. We also support the return to work by making a generous financial contribution to childcare until the child reaches kindergarten age.
• Great team events, such as our well-known FELFEL Summer Outing

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IN SHORT

We're seeking a Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer (80-100%) to join our technology transformation journey. You'll be instrumental in building our cloud-native infrastructure, enabling our value stream teams to deliver continuously, and supporting our ambitious goal of achieving zero-touch operations. 
 
Your mission: Accelerate delivery while ensuring reliability. You'll design and implement the infrastructure that enables our four value streams (Consumer Experience, Operations, Business Services, Data & Insights) to ship features daily while maintaining 99.9% uptime for our critical business operations.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Infrastructure & Platform

• Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure (Azure) supporting our IoT ecosystem
• Build and maintain container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) for service oriented architecture
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi) for our multi-environment setup
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery for critical business systems (WMS, IoT data pipeline, customer-facing apps)

• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines enabling daily deployments across all value streams
• Build automated testing frameworks and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary releases)
• Implement automated rollback mechanisms and feature flag systems
• Create self-service deployment tools for development teams

• Implement comprehensive monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for application and infrastructure metrics
• Build alerting systems with intelligent noise reduction and escalation procedures
• Design distributed tracing for microservices architecture
• Create dashboards supporting real-time business metrics and SLA monitoring

• Implement security best practices across the infrastructure lifecycle
• Manage secrets, certificates, and access controls
• Ensure compliance with data protection regulations (GDPR)
• Conduct security assessments and vulnerability management

WHAT TO EXPECT

ABOUT US

FELFEL is all about good food and coffee in the workplace: we help Swiss employers become masters of hospitality. 
With our smart fridge ‘FELFEL’ and delicious barista coffee ‘Gavetti’, we enable companies to provide their employees with first-class, ultra-fresh food and drinks throughout the day. Whether hearty and traditional, modern and vegan or high in protein - our weekly changing menu ensures that all employees always have something to be excited about ;).
FELFEL is a family business that was founded in 2013. Today, we take care of around 1000 locations in Switzerland, and have 150 employees across our offices in Lausanne, Zurich and New York. 
www.felfel.ch

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