Software Developer (Security)

About Swisscom

We are about 850 IT experts and enthusiasts devoted to creating inspiring customer experiences and developing the best quality services, one of the leading IT providers in Switzerland. In addition, we’re building a new DevOps Center in Rotterdam and are looking to grow this to over 200 new hires over the next few years. Our ambition is to become the #1 DevOps Team. We work on innovative and challenging projects that use “state of the art tech” in an Agile environment. As DevOps engineers, we understand the equal importance of relationships, culture, soft skills, and collaborative working in a friendly environment.

Position

In a technically exciting and dynamic environment, you significantly contribute to the successful development and operation of our brand-new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings. You will reduce toil and develop automation to manage our environments at scale.

What you move?

Together, we evolve our SASE offerings using novel security architectures. You drive with us the technical transformation enabling a redefinition of the connectivity offerings. To do so, you are passionate and keeping yourself deeply informed with the evolutions in IT, Network, Cloud and Endpoint Security. You also enjoy working across multiple disciplines such as design, development, integration, testing, and operations. By automating our DevOps environment, you help us fostering efficiency, reliability and quality.

• Innovation, design, development, integration, test and operation (DevOps) of our brand-new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) products
• Definition of Security Policy best practices with a clear value proposition, provision of policy templates with an easy adoption. Defining, building and managing of data pipelines for internal and external stakeholders
• Troubleshooting and debugging in all environments
• SRE, continuous improvement and automation of workflows and processes to reduce toil

Your qualification

This is a T-shaped role so a specialization in any of these areas would be great:

• Security: e.g. Mobile Device Management (MDM), ZTNA, Firewall, IPS, DLP, DPI, CASB, M365, Certificate Management
• Networking: e.g. SD-WAN, NAT, IPSec, IPv6, site-to-site VPN, Load Balancing, BGP
• Data Management: e.g. Kafka, Splunk, Data Analytics
• Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE)

Other than the above we also require the following: 

• Experienced in programming (i.e. Java/Spring/Golang) and scripting (i.e. Python, Bash)
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps technologies (Artifactory, GIT/GITOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, ArgoCD)
• Cloud computing, infrastructure and networking (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift, Micro-Services)
• Experienced as a DevOps Engineer in an IT or Telco environment
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree (Uni/UAS) in telecommunications or computer science
• Curiosity and passion to constantly learn new technologies
• Enthusiasm for agile working methods and principles
• A challenger of our 'legacy' and 'telco specific' way of thinking (e.g. GITHub Copilot)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Learn and share/teach know-how
• Very open-minded as well as solution- and team-oriented

What we offer

Work environment

• Agile way of working, multi-cultural work environment promoting work-life balance
• Autonomy, flexibility, opportunity and growth
• Cool office space in the World Trade Center Rotterdam!
• Office and team events to build a stronger Swisscom community

Allowances

• Full relocation support (Housing, settling-in, etc.) for you and your family
• Telephone/internet allowance and contribution to health insurance
• Paid training days and access to Swisscom learning platforms
• Commuting and home office allowance
• Gym subscription, Tax advice, and language course

Leaves policy

• Work from abroad possibility for a fixed term
• Care, bereavement, maternity and paternity leaves
• 25 days paid vacation days plus Dutch national holidays

Contract terms

• To begin with you will receive a fixed term contract (one year), after 6 months of your employment with us, after a feedback meeting with the team, there is a possibility of extending the contract to an indefinite term
• The salary ranges mentioned in our Job Descriptions are base annual gross salaries

Additional details

Want to know more about us?

We are serving the Swiss market as Switzerland’s leading IT & Telecom company. Thus, we are actively driving digitalization and networking, and tapping new paths for our customers and our employees. We do not know what the future is going to look like, but we definitely have the opportunity to shape it. To do so we are and act trustworthy, committed and curious.

Since 2019, we have been building up the coolest DevOps Center with a wonderful office at the World Trade Center in the heart of Rotterdam. We are currently recruiting IT passionate professionals who are keen on developing high-quality software, have an agile mindset and appreciate collaboration with motivated colleagues from all over the world.