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 Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between EUR 2,800 and EUR 4,600 per month (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. 

 

About Swiss Re

 

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

 

We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.

 

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