Cloud Engineer — Swiss Re
- Location
- Fully
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Role overview
About the role The Azure Application Hosting team at Swiss Re is seeking a Cloud Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes and Azure Cloud. In this role, you'll engage in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and application hosting using Kubernetes. Your main responsibility will be to manage and improve our shared application hosting platform for various types of applications in the Azure cloud. A significant part of your role involves the further engineering of the platform, but also ensuring the stability and operability of the platform. This includes automating operational processes as much as possible. You will also participate in an on-call rotation, approximately once every two months, to handle high-priority incidents, with the frequency expected to decrease as our team grows . Your work will include managing a managed PaaS platform, covering aspects like fully automated secret management, storage, and identity management for application teams. You'll also be involved in migrating new applications to the public cloud and optimizing existing setups. The team is based in Zürich, Switzerland, and Madrid, Spain. We're looking for someone who is ready to contribute to our team's efforts and support Swiss Re's cloud initiatives.
About you
Nobody is perfect and meets 100% of requirements. If you however meet some of the criteria below and are genuinely curious about the world of public cloud and application hosting, we will be happy to meet you. To be successful in the role, you need to have these technical skills and knowledge:
- Experience in Kubernetes and generally application hosting
- Experience in public cloud, mainly Azure
- Knowledge of interacting with API and CLI interfaces
- Knowledge of programming language Golang and Bash/Powershell
- Passion for learning and innovating
If you also have the following experience and interests, it is a huge plus:
- Background in software engineering or application design
- Knowledge of and/or interest in pulumi for IaC
- Knowledge of and/or interest in platform and application security
- Experience in corporate/enterprise technical landscapes
If you join us, you will be able to participate in a variety of interesting initiatives.
For example you will
Build infrastructure and a platform that allow Swiss Re units to:
- the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
- the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.
Main responsibilities
- the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
- the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.
- In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements.
- Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.
- Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract. About Swiss Re
- Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient.
- We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
- Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients.
- This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.
- Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.
Application process
- If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
- The Azure Application Hosting team at Swiss Re is seeking a Cloud Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes and Azure Cloud.
- In this role, you'll engage in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and application hosting using Kubernetes.
- Your main responsibility will be to manage and improve our shared application hosting platform for various types of applications in the Azure cloud.
- A significant part of your role involves the further engineering of the platform, but also ensuring the stability and operability of the platform.
- This includes automating operational processes as much as possible.
- You will also participate in an on-call rotation, approximately once every two months, to handle high-priority incidents, with the frequency expected to decrease as our team grows .
- Your work will include managing a managed PaaS platform, covering aspects like fully automated secret management, storage, and identity management for application teams.
Additional details
- We're looking for someone who is ready to contribute to our team's efforts and support Swiss Re's cloud initiatives.
- Experience in Kubernetes and generally application hosting Experience in public cloud, mainly Azure
- Knowledge of programming language Golang and Bash/Powershell Passion for learning and innovating
- If you join us, you will be able to participate in a variety of interesting initiatives. For example you will:
- For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between EUR 2,800 and EUR 4,600 per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:
- Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.
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Notes and original content
- About the role
- Experience in Kubernetes and generally application hosting
- Experience in public cloud, mainly Azure
- Knowledge of programming language Golang and Bash/Powershell
- Passion for learning and innovating
- If you join us, you will be able to participate in a variety of interesting initiatives.
- For example you will:
- For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between EUR 2,800 and EUR 4,600 per month (for a full-time role).
- The specific salary offered considers:
- About Swiss Re
Questions about this listing
What salary does Swiss Re offer for this role?
Swiss Re lists CHF 73'500 - 111'500 gross per year for this position in Fully. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Swiss Re offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Swiss Re during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Valais?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Valais can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Valais's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
How do I apply for this position at Swiss Re?
Use the "Apply now" button on this page — it links directly to Swiss Re's original listing at swissre.com, so your application goes straight to the employer's own applicant-tracking system. Frontaliere Ticino does not collect or forward applications itself.
