DevOps careers

Zühlke is built on a strong foundation of DevOps. Every DevOps career (from engineers to architects and consultants) ensures the innovative solutions we build for clients reach their full potential.

DevOps careers at Zühlke are about maximizing impact – by connecting the big-picture goals of our clients with the practical development considerations needed to achieve them.
Applying for a DevOps career at Zühlke means optimizing how our talented software engineering teams work together – from coaching and consulting to building development platforms.

You’ll help cross-functional teams build, run and monitor complex systems in ways that maximize value and efficiency, accelerate feedback cycles and unlock fast iteration. Your role extends beyond technical implementation to include consulting, coaching, and ensuring the reliability and observability of systems through Site Reliability Engineering principles.
We believe the way you build changes what you build (and ultimately, what Zühlke builds). And we build to run – further, faster and more efficiently.

Choose Zühlke for the next step in your DevOps career.

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' I transitioned from a software engineer to a DevOps engineer because I like bringing diverse teams together and creating the processes and culture for them to thrive. '
Anna Slastnikova
Expert DevOps Engineer

Working in DevOps at Zühlke

Working in DevOps at Zühlke is a unique experience – not just because of the way we work, but because of the type of clients, projects and talent we attract. 

Zühlke is a trusted expert in all of the most complex industries in the world. Clients come to us because they know we thrive on that complexity, and have a track record of delivering innovative software solutions that meet ambitious digitalisation goals. We do work that makes a real impact in the world, and we do it for clients who listen to our advice and take action accordingly.

As a DevOps engineer, working on mission-critical challenges for leading global companies means you get access to environments and projects that aren’t typically easy to access. If you’re interested in peeking under the hood of some of the companies and industries that make the world go round, a DevOps career at Zühlke is the right place to be.

The fascinating project work we do is supported by a diverse and welcoming culture that values learning, sharing and proactively enriching each other’s professional development. Zühlke is a place that specifically encourages everyone to share their experiences with other teams – and that’s particularly helpful for a career in DevOps. 

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What is a DevOps career path at Zühlke?

Zühlke specializes in delivering innovative and continuously improving software solutions for some of the most interesting companies in the world. DevOps connects everything we do – and so your DevOps career path here can take you anywhere you want to go:

DevOps Engineer

In this role, you will be analyzing and designing integration across platforms, ensuring compliance with the integration architecture and security standards. Additionally, you'll shape the IT infrastructure with best practices while operating within agile project teams, and design and implement tests. Troubleshooting and fixing issues, you will leverage your expertise in various programming languages and integration technologies.

DevOps Consultant

You will be guiding customers through the entire journey from initial idea to tangible business value, ensuring their development process is optimized for quick and reliable delivery. Leveraging your troubleshooting skills, you will analyze and resolve stability issues in complex distributed systems, providing actionable solutions. Taking on a leadership role, you will advance our DevOps practices within Zühlke and contribute to our presales and sales efforts.

Platform Engineer

As a Platform Engineer, you'll develop and operate our Platform Plane, customizing and integrating tools for a seamless user experience. Collaborating with the team, you'll address client needs, manage service operations, and ensure security and compliance. Your expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, and Go will be crucial as you drive continual improvements. Maintaining a customer-focused mindset, you'll help optimize our platforms and processes.

Career paths for DevOps growth at Zühlke

  • What is the career path for DevOps Engineers at Zühlke?

    There are lots of different career paths for DevOps engineers at Zühlke – but many of our DevOps engineers start out as software engineers before broadening their focus to DevOps.

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  • What is the career path for DevOps Consultants at Zühlke?

    The career path for DevOps consultants at Zühlke involves working with clients in a more strategic capacity – to help them reflect on their current objectives and how their technology processes are optimized to serve them.

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  • A career of your own

    Zühlke supports your career path even if it's the most unconventional one.

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What is the career path for DevOps Engineers at Zühlke?

There are lots of different career paths for DevOps engineers at Zühlke – but many of our DevOps engineers start out as software engineers before broadening their focus to DevOps.

This progression is a well-established career path for DevOps engineers at Zühlke because our projects tend to involve lots of different teams and moving parts. You’ll naturally develop a holistic curiosity about what’s happening across the rest of the value stream. 

This is where your career path as a DevOps engineer starts – by learning about the different roles, technologies and dependencies up and down the value stream. This breadth is exactly what calls to most DevOps engineers. If you’re more passionate about improving the way technical teams collaborate than focusing on the development process itself, then DevOps is probably a great fit for your career aspirations.

What is the career path for DevOps Consultants at Zühlke?

The career path for DevOps consultants at Zühlke involves working with clients in a more strategic capacity – to help them reflect on their current objectives and how their technology processes are optimized to serve them. 

While DevOps engineers at Zühlke help our software engineers build better solutions for clients, the career path for DevOps consultants involves helping customers improve software delivery across their pre-existing supplier and solutions – in terms of processes, culture, organization and technology.

Put simply, your career path as a DevOps consultant at Zühlke will involve helping clients build the right thing (before ensuring they build it the right way). You’ll help them develop hypotheses and adopt design thinking to build solutions that meet their true objectives and solve real market needs.

A career of your own

Zühlke supports your career path even if it's the most unconventional one. 

Our people have a variety of opportunities to grow their careers vertically into leadership positions or horizontally by broadening their fields of expertise and skillsets. You can even pivot to any other job family available at Zühlke, like Business Consulting or Software Engineering. 

How your DevOps career path advances is up to you. We’ll give you every opportunity to learn along the way.

Leo von Wyss
' I love working as a DevOps consultant because it’s easy to quantify the real-world impact of my work. Recently I’ve worked with retailers, airports and banks. Underperforming processes and systems can quickly equate to millions of francs or euros in lost revenue. I like being able to prove the results of my work. '
Leo von Wyss
Principal DevOps Consultant

How do we keep up with DevOps trends at Zühlke?

The principles, technologies and disciplines of DevOps moves fast. Cloud-native technologies (like kubernetes, docker and serverless computing) are particularly popular DevOps trends at the moment, and we support our DevOps engineers to experiment with emerging and maturing DevOps trends to ensure we’re always providing the best recommendations to customers.

Another important trend is the principle of observability. DevOps is about the visualisation – of a value stream, pipeline, KPIs, bottlenecks – it’s impossible to optimize the wider value stream if you can’t see what’s going on (or where you should focus).

Observability is particularly important given the cloud-native DevOps trends mentioned above. As architectures become more complex and underlying systems become fragmented and decentralized, it gets more critical to understand the connections and dependencies of every component in the value chain. Observability brings those relationships to the surface and ensures you can always take the right actions to optimize for the desired outcome.

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