As a SRE Python Developer at Swissquote and active member of the SRE Automation team, your main mission will be to supercharge delivery, automate processes and build the teams internal self-service platform !

The SRE Automation team is an innovative platform team operating with a DevOps mindset, that is responsible for:

• Deployment Orchestration tools that facilitate project delivery, in collaboration with Software Engineering and IT Departments
• Automating existing platform processes via automation scripting. This includes provisioning infrastructure, managing configuration and orchestrating deployments.
• Evolving platform processes by building an innovative self-service platform for developers and operations.

SRE Automation use a combination of various strategies and technologies to achieve their mission:

• Git & GitOps
• CI/CD
• Configuration-as-code
• Terraform
• Containerisation (Docker)
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• ArgoCD

Your Responsibilities

• Abstract platform access into APIs, CLIs and config-as-code
• Publish and maintain state metadata via APIs

• Standardise procedures and team practices, including application onboarding, Python development and deployments to classic & kubernetes infrastructure

• Identify and automate manual processes to reduce toil
• Research, propose and innovate platform tools

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science OR related technical field experience involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), OR equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience OR portfolio projects in one of more of the following: SRE or DevOps Position, Software Development, Systems Administration or IT Operations

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in Python and ideally one or more of the following: Perl, GO, Rust, Bash, Java.
• Experience and interest for CICD, GitOps, Cloud (Kubernetes) and self service workflows.
• Experience with IaaS and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform or Puppet.
• Comfortable using different flavors of *nix (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, SLES, Solaris, CentOS).
• Ability to communicate to collect and share knowledge within and outside the team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, French is an asset.