Lausanne
System Administrator / DevOps Engineer
- 03 September 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- Lausanne
About the job
EPFL, the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 worldwide in numerous academic rankings. EPFL has more than 6,500 staff members who bring to life the School's three main missions: education, research, and innovation. The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of over 17,000 people, including nearly 12,500 students and 4,000 researchers from more than 120 different nationalities.
Within the ENAC IT team, you contribute to the operation, development, and automation of our IT infrastructures.
You participate in establishing a reliable, secure, and maintainable environment, promoting automation, standardisation, and DevOps practices.
• Participate in the operation and development of virtualisation, containerisation, and orchestration infrastructures.
• Automate the deployment and configuration of infrastructures and systems.
• Ensure monitoring, availability, and security of services.
• Support users and internal teams in resolving technical issues.
• Administer and provide support for Linux environments, servers, and workstations.
• Supervise and support IT apprentices, taking on a leadership role at the internship site.
• Document, standardise, and continuously improve procedures and configurations.
• Higher education in computer science (ES/HES), or equivalent professional experience.
• Good skills in Linux system administration and support, as well as a solid general understanding of IT environments.
• Knowledge of Windows and macOS administration is a plus.
• Experience with DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, and automation, notably with Ansible and Git.
• Good knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies.
• Experience in automated deployment and management of workstations.
• Interest in standardisation and continuous improvement, as well as documentation writing.
• Ability or interest in mentoring and knowledge transfer, especially with apprentices.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a rigorous and autonomous approach.
• Team spirit, service orientation, and ease in interacting with users of varied profiles.
Experience with some of the technologies in our environment "” Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Git/GitHub, FOG "” is an asset.
• A varied technical environment within a leading academic institution.
• The opportunity to work on modern infrastructures combining Linux, automation, virtualisation, and Kubernetes.
• A diverse activity, ranging from daily operations to the design and improvement of infrastructures.
• An environment fostering autonomy, knowledge sharing, and skills development.
Start date: 01/12/2026
Minimum workload: 80.00
Maximum workload: 100.00
Contract type: Permanent
Reference: 2432
