DevOps/Platform Engineer

Bachem

Bubendorf, Switzerland

We are building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that lets teams across Bachem deliver applications in a standardized, self-service way. In this hands-on role you will build, operate and scale the platform – bringing your experience to strengthen its core foundations today, and helping grow it into the backbone that serves the whole organization tomorrow.

Your tasks

Build, automate and operate our Internal Developer Platform based on GitHub Enterprise and cloud infrastructure
Design and maintain infrastructure as code to provision environments, resources and guardrails in a repeatable, auditable way
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and reusable workflow templates in GitHub Actions, with quality, security and compliance built in
Help scale the platform as adoption grows - improving reusable templates, guardrails and self-service capabilities so it serves more teams without more manual effort
Keep the platform reliable, compliant and secure – monitoring, observability, incident response, patching and continuous improvement of operational practices
Implement platform governance and guardrails: access management, policies, secrets handling and cost awareness
Facilitate discussions and drive alignment across stakeholder groups with different priorities, translating their requirements into coherent, shared platform capabilities.
Partner with developers across a wide range of skill levels: coaching newcomers, enabling professional developers and adapting your communication and support to each audience.
Create documentation, guidelines and onboarding materials that make the platform easy to adopt for developers of every maturity level
Collaborate closely with the Platform Owner to translate the platform roadmap into technical solutions
Ensure platform reliability and security through monitoring, observability, and policy-driven governance

Your profile

Degree in IT or equivalent practical experience in a field related to DevOps or software engineering
3-5 years of experience with DevOps or a closely related software engineering role
Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Enterprise, including GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines and repository governance
Solid experience automating infrastructure-as-code deployments (Terraform) via GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, targeting Azure and/or AWS
A product-oriented mindset and the drive to make developers more productive
A collaborative, service‑oriented mindset that thrives in agile, iterative environments, measuring success by how productive and self‑sufficient you help platform users become
Comfortable in an agile environment, delivering iteratively and self-organizing to keep steady progress
Nice to have: Experience with regulated/GxP environments
Fluent in English, German is a plus