Cloud Engineer

About the role

The Azure Application Hosting team at Swiss Re is seeking a Cloud Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes and Azure Cloud. In this role, you'll engage in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and application hosting using Kubernetes. Your main responsibility will be to manage and improve our shared application hosting platform for various types of applications in the Azure cloud.

A significant part of your role involves the further engineering of the platform, but also ensuring the stability and operability of the platform. This includes automating operational processes as much as possible. You will also participate in an on-call rotation, approximately once every two months, to handle high-priority incidents, with the frequency expected to decrease as our team grows.

Your work will include managing a managed PaaS platform, covering aspects like fully automated secret management, storage, and identity management for application teams. You'll also be involved in migrating new applications to the public cloud and optimizing existing setups.

The team is based in Zürich, Switzerland, and Madrid, Spain. We're looking for someone who is ready to contribute to our team's efforts and support Swiss Re's cloud initiatives.

About you

Nobody is perfect and meets 100% of requirements. If you however meet some of the criteria below and are genuinely curious about the world of public cloud and application hosting, we will be happy to meet you.

To be successful in the role, you need to have these technical skills and knowledge:

• Experience in Kubernetes and generally application hosting
• Experience in public cloud, mainly Azure
• Knowledge of interacting with API and CLI interfaces
• Knowledge of programming language Golang and Bash/Powershell
• Passion for learning and innovating

If you also have the following experience and interests, it is a huge plus:

• Background in software engineering or application design
• Knowledge of and/or interest in pulumi for IaC
• Knowledge of and/or interest in platform and application security
• Experience in corporate/enterprise technical landscapes

If you join us, you will be able to participate in a variety of interesting initiatives.

For example you will:

Build infrastructure and a platform that allow Swiss Re units to:

• help improve the life of farmers in Brazil with image recognition based on satellite data.
• build models to predict life expectancy or predict the CO2 footprint of companies.
• support many other exciting projects in a collaborative environment with colleagues from Swiss Re's international offices.

You will work in a team building new cutting-edge solutions cloud infrastructure solutions, with 5 mentors to support your learning.

We are a diverse team and our passion to learn is what connects us. We are looking for a person who loves to learn and we will support you in this journey! We reserve time for studying and attending conferences, and we organize our own upskilling sessions as well. In addition to projects for our clients, we also work on innovation projects which allow us to learn new methodologies and gain fresh experience.

For Spain the base salary range for this position is between EUR 42,000 and EUR 70,000 per year (for a full-time role). 

The specific salary offered considers:

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,

• the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience. In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements.

Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits. Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.