Senior System Engineer (Internal IT, 80-100%, Remote-First) - 1124

For around 25 years Adfinis has been driving digital transformation through open standards and technologies, shaping a world of innovative, sustainable, and resilient IT solutions built on reliable open-source technology.

Our Swiss-based Internal IT team, consisting of 8 system engineers, provides a range of services including web applications on Kubernetes, Linux desktops, centralized SSO authentication, monitoring, and backup solutions to an expanding, international user base of around 100 IT professionals and 20 non-technical staff. Our daily work evolves around the continuous modernization, automation, and maintenance of our technology stack, ensuring the delivery of high-quality IT support and solutions.

To expand our team, we’re seeking a Senior System Engineer. In this role, you will lead internal IT projects, shape internal standards, and help maintain high-quality work.

What You Will Do

• Take the lead on internal projects, keeping everybody on the same page
• Turn ideas into solid plans, figure out the best solutions, and make them even better
• Keep our service setup running smoothly
• Design, build, and improve our tech systems to keep up with what we need
• Write documentation that’s clear, organized, and actually read by people
• Handle the tricky, high-stakes third-level support issues
• Be the go-to person for technical advice and support for the team

Must-Have Hard Skills

• Troubleshooting and designing solid, reliable service landscapes
• Automating and improving existing setups and building new solutions from scratch
• Understanding, designing, and implementing reliable networks
• Design secure solutions and respond to security incidents with the right fixes
• Presenting to big internal groups and running training sessions in English

Must-Have Soft Skills

• Being a hands-on team player, ready to lend a hand when needed
• Striving for quality, taking full responsibility for your work
• Tackling tough problems, figuring out what works, coming up with smart solutions
• Bringing everyone’s contributions together, making sure information flows smoothly
• Bringing order to projects, keeping things running smoothly, and managing risks

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with web servers, LDAP, OpenID Connect, KVM Virtualization, Bash, Python, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitLab & GitOps, networking, and server hardware.
• B2 level of German and English, preferably C1

• We're REALLY serious about Open Source. Keeping things transparent and accessible, supporting collaboration, and bigging up the community, it's not just what we do; it's who we are.
• Full-time or part-time, working on-site or logging in from your couch; the choice is yours. Thinking of jetting off for a bit? Hit us up in advance, and we'll probably sort it out.
• Pick Your Poison: Emacs, Nano, or Vim? Arch, Fedora, or NixOS? Whatever tools or distro make you deliver that sweet, sweet system engineering performance, it's all up to you.
• Being right in the sweet spot between a small tech shack and a big corporation, we keep it real with a down-to-earth attitude, solid business processes, and speedy decisions.
• We're all about that growth mindset. Whether it's levelling up your skills, nabbing some new certs, or geeking out at conferences, we've got your back.

Are you interested? Thomas Köchli, Chief Operating Officer, will be happy to review your application.

We are looking forward to getting to know you!