DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Frontify's team as a DevOps Engineer and contribute to maintaining and improving the company's system infrastructure. You will work closely with the R&D team to identify and resolve bugs, document processes, and serve as the primary technical contact for European and US teams. Responsibilities include designing, maintaining, and improving cloud infrastructure; developing and maintaining a robust monitoring and observability framework; managing and optimizing web servers, databases, and Linux systems; and collaborating with other teams to streamline workflows and troubleshoot issues. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in a DevOps or Cloud engineer role, experience with relational databases and Linux, and familiarity with AWS services, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. The position offers remote work flexibility within Switzerland or on-site options in St. Gallen, along with various benefits.

Requirements

• You have 3+ years of experience in a DevOps or Cloud engineer role – ideally in the SaaS space
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, including replication and performance tuning), and Linux (Amazon Linux/CentOS/RedHat). You’re also comfortable with web servers (Nginx)
• You have worked with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudfront or OpenSearch)
• You’ve worked with Terraform in the past and can create infrastructure as code for scalable environments
• You have knowledge and experience with Docker containerization, including container orchestration and management (e.g., Kubernetes or AWS ECS)
• You have knowledge of CI / CD pipelines and have implemented automated build and deployment processes
• You’ve worked cross-functionally with Developer Support and Deployment Support roles
• You’re an IT generalist who’s comfortable shaping and defining the role with us
• You have a strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog or Grafana)
• You have experience applying SRE principles such as SLOs, and error budgets
• You have worked with incident management processes, including conducting postmortems and driving improvements
• You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced, distributed team environment
• You speak English fluently

Responsibilities

• Leverage your experience in DevOps to design, maintain, and improve cloud infrastructure
• Help develop and maintain a robust monitoring and observability framework to ensure system performance, reliability, and early issue detection
• Manage and optimize web servers, relational databases, and Linux-based systems
• Work with AWS services to build and maintain scalable and secure cloud-based solutions
• Utilize expertise in Docker for containerization and manage orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or AWS ECS to ensure smooth deployment and scalability
• Collaborate closely with Engineers, Deployment Support, and Security teams to streamline workflows, troubleshoot issues, and improve system deployment processes

Preferred Qualifications

You have knowledge of Puppet configuration management (Bonus)

Benefits

• At least 5 weeks of holiday (PTO)
• Paid educational and well-being days off
• Home office setup budget
• Annual salary review
• Localized benefits
• Invite to our summer company meet-up in Switzerland