Senior Systems Engineer - Security Team - Remote

Overview

SOFTSWISS is looking for a Systems Engineer to join our security team and take ownership of the infrastructure behind our security systems.

In Short

• Design, deploy, and maintain the security team infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of security platforms through proactive monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Manage and evolve cloud infrastructure across datacenter dedicated servers and cloud providers.
• Automate routine operational tasks: provisioning, configuration management, patching, and secret rotation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure incidents as the primary technical owner.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation: architecture diagrams, runbooks, and change logs.
• Collaborate with security engineers to ensure underlying platforms meet tooling and integration requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on Linux system administration experience in production environments.
• Deep expertise in Linux internals: systems, networking stack, storage, performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing, firewalling (iptables / nftables).
• Experience with bare-metal and dedicated server environments (Hetzner or similar providers).
• Hands-on experience deploying, operating, and hardening Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Hands-on experience operating and maintaining Keycloak in production.
• Understanding of identity protocols: OIDC, SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible.
• Strong scripting skills: Python and/or Go for automation and operational tooling.
• Experience building and maintaining monitoring stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager.

Benefits

• Full-time remote work opportunities and flexible working hours.
• Private insurance.
• Additional 1 Day Off per calendar year.
• Sports program compensation.
• Comprehensive Mental Health Programme.
• Free online English lessons with a native speaker.
• Generous referral program.
• Training, internal workshops, and participation in international professional conferences and corporate events.