Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 100% – Basel

Job Description

As a member of the Infrastructure and Security team, you will take full ownership of cloud infrastructure design, implementation and maintenance. This is a hands-on role: you will lead the technical decisions and carry out the implementation and ongoing operational work.

You will collaborate closely with our software development teams to understand their requirements and deliver scalable, cost-efficient solutions.

Additionally, you will be supporting security and compliance tasks to ensure alignment with the Optravis ISMS and its improvement.

Your responsibilities

• Take responsibility for a defined portfolio of products and internal systems such as Optravis’ Azure main subscription.
• Own and improve the operational lifecycle of assigned assets, including scheduled controls, maintenance and recovery exercises.
• Design, build and maintain clean, efficient, reliable, tested and compliant infrastructure components.
• Apply least privilege, secure configuration, protected secrets and useful audit logging in everyday engineering decisions.
• Implement and operate technical controls, maintain evidence and resolve findings with the security/compliance lead.
• Contribute with the Operational Plan of the ISMS.
• Contribute with internal IT tasks, workspace connectivity and internal productivity tools.
• Scout for and experiment with new technologies.

Mandatory Skills

• MSc in Computer Science or equivalent education.
• Experience building and operating production infrastructure, including networking, identity management, storage and managed services, monitoring, containerization, etc.
• Practical infrastructure-as-code experience. We use Bicep; experience with Terraform or comparable tools is welcome if you are ready to adopt it.
• The ability to write and maintain useful code or scripts, using Git, code reviews, and appropriate testing.
• Great verbal and written communication skills in English. Any other language is a plus.
• Sound troubleshooting skills across applications, containers, operating systems, and networks.
• Accountability: you keep commitments, maintain documentation, complete recurring operational tasks, and raise risks early.
• Practical security judgment: You can identify risks, categorize them, explain trade-offs to management, and propose safeguards.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies or products, estimating their expected costs.

Additional Skills

• Azure Container Apps, Front Door/WAF, managed identities and managed PostgreSQL.
• CI/CD, observability and automated security checks.
• Google Cloud.
• Kotlin/Java applications or collaboration with JVM backend teams.
• ISO 27001 or ISAE 3402 environments, including technical controls and audit evidence.

What we are offering

• Central office location right in the heart of Basel
• Learn cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, microservice architectures, ClickHouse and others
• Start-up spirit (flat hierarchies, chill zone with table tennis, after-work drinks on our rooftop terrace)
• A young, motivated, and highly skilled team
• Attractive remuneration and benefits
• Free drinks, fruits, sweets, and team events

Contact Person

Celine Stingelin

Finance/HR/Marketing

+41 61 551 99 11 recruiting@optravis.com