Devops Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Company Description:

Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. As the first solution to allow IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization, Nexthink enables its more than 1,300 customers to provide better digital experiences to more than 18 million employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide.

We are looking for a passionate and innovative professional who is keen to join our Endpoint DevOps team, which is part of the Data Platform Engineering group! The Endpoint DevOps team is providing an internal development platform comprising tools and services that Endpoint developers use daily. Their mission is to enable our Endpoint Engineering organisation to develop and build the Nexthink product.

As an Endpoint DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Provide the necessary tools for daily development of the product, integrate with cloud platforms, as well as helping developers to manage their build system and CI pipelines.
• Be responsible for setting up and maintaining part of the development tools (ex. Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub).
• Develop internal self-service tools and platforms for that are used by the Nexthink developers in their daily work.
• Own the required technical work for different projects, from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Engage with Nexthink's developers to build relationships, identify potential areas of improvement, and help drive the adoption of the team's platforms.
• Document solutions built by the team and organise workshops and training to spread knowledge to the development teams.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Candidates will typically have minimum 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer with knowledge of best practice of professional software development.
• Experience developing automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with defining guidelines for usage of different CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins).
• Experience building self-service internal development platforms.
• Experience in developing platform-as-a-service solutions.
• Experience with C++ development and CMake
• Experience delivering endpoint applications both under Windows and MacOS
• Experience with cloud-based platforms (e.g., AWS) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform).
• Experience with monitoring solutions (e.g. Datadog).
• Experience with programming languages such as Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Groovy, PowerShell and/or Bash.
• Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting a VDI solution (Citrix, Omnissa Horizon, Azure AVD, AWS WorkSpaces)
• Very good problem-solving skills, open mind towards suggestions, can do attitude and agile spirit.
• Autonomous, with excellent organizational skills.
• Curiosity to learn new things and discover new technologies.
• Work with the agile iterative/incremental mindset.
• Very good communication skills and teamwork.
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English.
  

The prior experience with any of the above-mentioned tools is a bonus but not a must! We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single requirement. We welcome candidates with different level of background and experience. If you are excited about this role, please apply and we will assess your application.