Responsibilities include but are not limited to deploying, supporting, monitoring and troubleshooting large scale micro-service based distributed systems with high transaction volume; documenting the IT infrastructure, policies, and procedures. Applicants are also expected to participate in after-hours work.

• a Bachelor’s or higher degree in technical field of study

• 10+ years of experience in managing and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems

• 5+ years in JVM

• 2+ years in AWS

• 2+ years in Docker, Kubernetes and Mesos

• 3+ years in setting up, configuring and monitoring Kafka and Zookeeper in production

• 5+ years experience in operating relational (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and noSQL (Couchbase, Cassandra) storages

• excellent knowledge of at least one modern programming language, such as Go, Java, C++, Python and Scala

• a good understanding of network and routing protocols (TCP/IP, DNS and others)

• excellent troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities

• excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills

• experience implementing, operating, and supporting open source tools for network and security monitoring and management on Linux/Unix platforms

• experience with encryption and cryptography standards

Location: Remote or Onsite in Zurich, Switzerland