Senior DevOps Engineer

Your new company

A lot has changed at Frontify over the last decade, but people continue to be at the heart of our vision. 

Every day, we empower thousands of brand builders worldwide — including teams at Lufthansa, KIA, Vodafone, and Uber — to create brands that have an impact. Our more than 300 employees collaborate and engage in and around our headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and offices in London and New York City. And we’re looking for new team members to join us. 

We’re built on a collaborative culture of experimentation, trust, and transparency. If you want to help us achieve our mission of creating a home where brands can thrive, read on.

Your team

Your new team is a group of motivated, collaborative, and innovative people. They are Designers, Product Managers, and Developers from more than seven different countries. They enjoy working together to create and evolve a well-loved product but always keep room for new ideas and approaches. Outside of work, some of them are parents, gamers, bookworms, adrenaline junkies, and so much more.

Your Mission

You’ll ensure that Frontify’s system infrastructure is cared for, maintained, and improved – it’s a fast-changing infrastructure, so there’s always something going on. Working closely with the R&D team, you’ll find the root cause of bugs and help the team fix them as well as document relevant processes. Beyond managing the daily infrastructural needs, you’ll be the first point of contact for our Europe- and US-based teams about anything related to the technical aspect of our platform.  

• You'll leverage your experience in DevOps to design, maintain, and improve cloud infrastructure.
• You'll help develop and maintain a robust monitoring and observability framework to ensure system performance, reliability, and early issue detection.
• You'll manage and optimize web servers, relational databases, and Linux-based systems.
• You'll utilize expertise in Docker for containerization and manage orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or AWS ECS to ensure smooth deployment and scalability.
• You'll work with AWS services to build and maintain scalable and secure cloud-based solutions.
• You'll collaborate closely with Developer Support and Deployment Support teams to streamline workflows, troubleshoot issues, and enhance system deployment processes.

• You can work in a hybrid or on-site format within Switzerland where you’re able to work in our St. Gallen office on a regular basis. 
• You have 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or Systems Engineer role – ideally in the SaaS space.
• You’re comfortable with web servers (Nginx), relational databases (e.g., MySQL, including replication and performance tuning), and Linux (Amazon Linux/CentOS/RedHat).
• You have knowledge and experience with Docker containerization, including container orchestration and management (e.g., Kubernetes or AWS ECS).
• You have worked with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudfront or OpenSearch).
• You’ve worked with Terraform in the past and can create infrastructure as code for scalable environments.
• You have knowledge of CI / CD pipelines and have implemented automated build and deployment processes.
• You have knowledge of Puppet configuration management (Bonus).You’ve worked cross functionally with Developer Support and Deployment Support roles.
• You’re an IT generalist who’s comfortable shaping and defining the role with us.You have a strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog or Grafana).
• You have experience applying SRE principles such as SLOs, and error budgets.
• You have worked with incident management processes, including conducting postmortems and driving improvements.
• You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced, distributed team environment.
• You speak English fluently.

Why join us?

· We want to see you thrive; we’ll provide you the tools to shape your place and future at Frontify.

· We have a product that helps to connect brands and people with a human element.

· We offer you the chance to enjoy your work, offering flexibility, opportunity, and exposure to new technologies and ideas.

· We are a social bunch so if you are an animal lover, a student of yoga, or love travel, we have all the slack channels you need!

What we offer

· We encourage you to take at least 5 weeks of holiday

· Budget for home office set-up

· Annual salary review

· Additional localized benefits

· Invite to our annual, summer company meet-up

Important to us

At Frontify, we believe in being true to ourselves: We are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment of vibrant individuals whose diverse perspectives build our collective future. We aim to provide equal opportunities and nurture a workplace free of harassment and discrimination.

Next steps

1) Send us your CV and answer some questions: You’ll hear back from us with updates on your application.

2) Virtual call with the Recruiter: You'll meet the Talent team to discuss Frontify, the role, and you – your passions, your skills, you.

3) Virtually meet the team: You'll meet your new team over a few calls. You'll discuss the role, showcase your skills through your answers or a case study (or both), and get a feel for the brand-new journey that's awaiting you.

4) Join us: If all goes well, you'll join Frontify's journey soon.

We also wanted to let you know that we may run preliminary checks on successful candidates. In the instance we run a preliminary check, it will depend on the role you are applying for and will be done in accordance with the applicable law of the country of employment. We’ll provide you with all the details about the next steps during the interview process