Platform Engineer (HPC & AI Infrastructure)

ETH Zurich seeks a Platform Engineer to automate and operate a large-scale distributed computing platform for scientific workloads in Zürich.

This position plays a central part in building and maintaining a highly reliable, efficient environment for scientific computing. The successful candidate will focus on automating infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows to support large-scale, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows using modern IaC tools
• Operate, troubleshoot, and improve Linux systems on both bare metal and virtual infrastructure
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Build and operate on-premise cloud services based on Kubernetes
• Design and maintain observability platforms using metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerting systems
• Support core infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP, and HTTP
• Troubleshoot networking issues involving TCP/IP, routing, and firewalls
• Occasional datacenter floor work (racking, cabling, bare-metal troubleshooting and repairs)

Requirements

• Solid experience operating Linux systems in production environments
• Experience automating repetitive operational tasks
• Experience with shell scripting (Bash) and programming in at least one language such as Python, Go or Rust
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management (e.g. Cdist, Ansible, Terraform or similar)
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing and firewalls
• Strong communication skills in English

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with HPC technologies such as InfiniBand networks and multi-GPU systems
• Experience deploying or operating Lustre or other parallel file systems
• Familiarity with Slurm, Spack, and scientific software environments
• Experience with hardware provisioning and out-of-band management technologies such as BMC, IPMI and Redfish
• German language skills

What the company offers

• Flexible working models with the option to partly work from home
• Principle of Lifelong Learning
• Public transport subscriptions
• Car sharing
• Access to the wide range of ASVZ sports activities
• Childcare services
• Attractive pension benefits

About the company

ETH Zurich fosters a collaborative yet independent work environment. The institution values teamwork and individual ownership, operating effectively within an international setting.

• Collaborative team environment with independent task ownership
• International work setting