DevOps Engineer | 80-100% | hybrid | St. Gallen, Switzerland

What's the weather like tomorrow? 🌦️

At Meteomatics, we're answering this question with the most accurate weather data, helping several hundreds of companies and research institutions worldwide to accelerate the energy transition, reduce the business’ impact on the environment, and make products and services safer for society.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to strengthen the DevOps competence in our team of proud nerds, working on our Weather API - the centralized access point to petabytes of global weather data!

As part of our API team, you will shape, develop and maintain the Weather API, ensuring trouble-free operation and access for our global customers.

Your responsibilities

• Develop and operate the Weather API as a member of a cross-functional scrum team.
• Analyze business needs and develop well fitting solutions.
• Actively shape operational best practices (especially monitoring) and strengthen the according knowledge within your team.
• Improve the existing procedures to scale our Weather API to more customers and new markets.
• Proudly take part in keeping the Weather API online 24/7 as an on-call duty officer.

Your qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT or Systems Engineering or a related field, and/or relevant certifications and qualifications
• 3 – 5 years experience in developing and operating high-volume back-end systems (required)
• Strong team player with excellent communication skills
• In-depth experience with bare metal Linux servers, containerization (e.g. Docker) and service orchestration (e.g. Nomad)
• Ability to create and realize strategies for improving the operation of our system in close collaboration with the development team. (incl. requirements engineering, designing solutions, risk management, step-wise migration, ...)
• Openness to select the right solution for the problem regardless whether it's still a bare metal server or a stateless micro service running in a cloud.
• Expertise in monitoring and CI/CD (e.g. GitLab)
• Professional experience in Python, Linux and Bash
• Ideally, some C++ knowledge or openness to learn it
• Swiss/EU citizenship or work permit is mandatory

What you'll get

• Cool Playground: An API that serves gigabytes of on-the-fly post-processed weather data per minute. The data is loaded from a farm of back-end servers with terabytes of RAM and petabytes of data storage.
• Company culture: A dynamic and collaborative company culture with a highly motivated and passionate team of international colleagues (see more here).
• Ability to shape: Shape the architecture of our Weather API and develop the DevOps competence of your team mates.
  
• Hybrid work: We love meeting our colleagues at the office, but we also know how good it is to work from home sometimes. Up to two days "work from home" per week!
• Fun: Our HR team is keen on organizing social activities: Join us for barbecues at the terrace, summer off-site events, after-work games and drinks and much more!
• 5 vacation weeks: We work better when we're well-rested!

Meteomatics is a world-leading weather and climate data provider, passionate about transforming and growing the application of weather information worldwide. We want people who share our mission to help organizations access accurate weather forecasts to realize their business goals and protect lives and property.

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We are looking forward to your application!

Meteomatics is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We accept only direct applications.