Junior DevOps Engineer (100)

Welcome to Xelon where technology meets innovation and customer centricity. As we continue to grow our Platform team we are looking for a Junior DevOps Engineer to join us.

This is a role for someone at the start of their DevOps journey. You dont need to know everything yet what matters is solid fundamentals genuine curiosity and the drive to learn. You will work alongside experienced engineers take ownership of clearly scoped tasks and grow step by step toward operating our platform independently.

At Xelon we deliver secure scalable and automated Swiss cloud infrastructure for the next generation of digital services. From IaaS to SaaS our platform powers workloads in regulated industries like finance insurance and public services. Our solutions Xelon Cloud Xelon Secure and Xelon HQ combine reliability automation sovereignty and simplicity in one ecosystem.

We are on a mission to become the #1 Swiss Cloud Enabler and we are growing a team of people who want to shape the future of cloud infrastructure and software operations.

Your role and your responsibilities

As a Junior DevOps Engineer you support the team in keeping our infrastructure and deployment processes reliable scalable and secure always with guidance and room to learn. Your areas of contribution include:

Platform Operations & Maintenance

• Help maintain and improve our systems (patching updates backups certificate management) under guidance
• Assist with deploying new services and supporting migrations to improved solutions
• Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across the platform

CI/CD & Deployment

• Support building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines (e.g. Bitbucket Pipelines ArgoCD)
• Assist with rollbacks deployment health checks and release coordination

Infrastructure Automation

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code components (e.g. Kubernetes Ansible Terraform) under guidance
• Help keep configurations consistent across dev staging and production

Monitoring Logging & Observability

• Help maintain and improve observability tooling (e.g. CheckMK Loki Grafana Tempo Prometheus & Sentry)
• Contribute to dashboards and alerting that increase signal and reduce noise

Security & Compliance

• Support automated security checks in CI/CD (e.g. SAST DAST SCA)
• Help ensure deployments meet Xelons compliance and security requirements (TLS/SSL firewalls network policies)

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Write and maintain clear easy-to-follow technical documentation
• Share what you learn with development and operations teams

Who you are

We are not looking for someone who already knows everything we are looking for someone who wants to understand the technologies behind the tools not just use them.

• You are curious and learn fast you enjoy figuring out how things work.
• You take ownership of your tasks and follow them through within the scope you are given.
• You communicate openly and ask for help or feedback early when you are stuck.
• You work in a structured careful and security-conscious way.
• You enjoy working as part of a team and sharing knowledge.

Must-haves

• Foundation: Completed IT apprenticeship (e.g. Informatiker/in EFZ) or comparable education or first professional experience in IT operations / infrastructure.
• Linux: Solid Linux/Unix fundamentals shell processes file systems permissions and remote access (SSH/RDP).
• Networking: Basic networking knowledge (IP DHCP DNS gateways firewalling).
• Scripting: First experience with scripting (Bash with exposure to Python PowerShell or Golang).
• Containers: Basic understanding of containers (container vs. VM Docker basics).
• Motivation: A genuine motivation to learn new technologies where the knowledge is not yet there.
• Languages: Fluent German and good English written and spoken.

Nice-to-haves

• First exposure to CI/CD and IaC tooling (Bitbucket Pipelines ArgoCD Terraform Ansible)
• Familiarity with monitoring and security tooling (Prometheus Grafana LGTM; SAST/DAST/SCA)
• First contact with Kubernetes load balancing (Nginx Apache HAProxy Traefik Keepalived) or OpenStack / GitOps
• Relevant certifications (e.g. CKA Terraform Associate RHCE)
• An enthusiastic homelab and a good sense of humor

What Xelon Offers

• Room to grow: A hands-on DevOps role with a clear development path toward a full DevOps Engineer position.
• Mentoring: Structured onboarding a dedicated technical mentor and a clear learning roadmap from fundamentals to advanced topics.
• Real impact: A product-driven environment with purpose clarity and ownership close to the technology and the people building it.
• Modern setup: A hybrid work model with flexibility and modern tooling.
• Fair package: Competitive salary and equity participation opportunities.
• Great team: A young dynamic team with the will to achieve something together including cool team events.

Join our mission

Are you at the start of your DevOps journey and ready to grow with us Then apply now we look forward to hearing from you!

The Xelon Team