Auf einen Blick
- Aufgaben: Verwalte und verbessere unsere Linux-basierte Infrastruktur und automatisiere Prozesse.
- Unternehmen: Innovatives Softwareunternehmen mit Fokus auf Web3-Technologien.
- Vorteile: 25 Tage Urlaub, Homeoffice-Möglichkeiten und Unterstützung bei Weiterbildung.
- Weitere Informationen: Hohe Eigenverantwortung und Einfluss auf die DevOps-Strategie von Anfang an.
- Warum dieser Job: Arbeite an spannenden Web3-Projekten und forme die Zukunft der Technologie.
- Qualifikationen: Mindestens 3 Jahre Erfahrung in DevOps oder Infrastrukturrollen.
Das prognostizierte Gehalt liegt zwischen 74250 - 90750 € pro Jahr.
Please note that for this position, we'll only consider applications from people who are already living in Switzerland.
About Papers
Papers is a software engineering company founded on high-tech talent.
We support the full lifecycle of innovative web3 products — from concept to software market fit — building secure, scalable futures for our clients and the internet at large.
With over a decade of experience and a reputation built on delivering for Fortune 500s and blockchain ecosystems, our teams combine deep technical know-how with a mission to enable meaningful, decentralized innovation.
As an engineering-driven team, we work with autonomy and purpose.
Our culture is built on meritocracy, long-term thinking, and a commitment to quality over buzz.
We aim to collaborate with people who love tech for its own sake and want to help shape the future by solving real-world challenges.
- Tasks
- Your Responsibilities
- Manage and improve our self-hosted, Linux-based infrastructure (Ubuntu) running on a fleet of dedicated/bare-metal servers
- Keep servers patched and up to date (OS/security updates, reboots) and maintain the various applications we self-host
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab CI): build images, push to the Git Lab Container Registry
- Set up and optimize Docker and Docker Compose deployments
- Automate infrastructure and host provisioning with Ansible
- Define and enforce backup strategies and disaster-recovery processes.
- Run our observability stack — Telegraf + Influx DB + Grafana for metrics and alerting (alerts route to Teams/Pager Duty), Graylog for log aggregation — and write runbooks for the alerts
- Administer Microsoft 365 / Entra ID (Azure AD) — identity & access management, MFA, Conditional Access, SSO, and email/collaboration security
- Own and continuously improve our security posture: SSH/host hardening, firewalls, secrets management, least-privilege access, periodic access reviews, and incident response
- Participate in on-call rotations to support critical services (incl. the Acurast blockchain/bridge infrastructure)
- Collaborate with backend engineers to streamline integration and delivery
- Continuously identify and automate repetitive tasks to reduce manual intervention
- Tech Stack Overview
You'll be working with
- Linux (Ubuntu), bare-metal/dedicated hosts
- Git Lab CI, Docker, Docker Compose
- Ansible (infrastructure-as-code)
- Nginx, Let's Encrypt/certbot
- Telegraf, Influx DB, Grafana (metrics + alerting); Graylog (logs), Pager Duty
- Postgre SQL, NATS, Net Bird (mesh VPN)
- Microsoft 365 / Entra ID (Azure AD) — identity, MFA, Conditional Access
- Scripting: Bash, Python
Requirements
Your Profile
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or infrastructure roles
- Proficient with Linux/Ubuntu system administration on self-managed servers
- Comfortable with Docker / Docker Compose and CI/CD workflows (Git Lab CI)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Ansible especially)
- Confident with Nginx, TLS, shell scripting, and practical networking (reverse proxies, firewalls, VPN/overlay networks)
- Comfortable owning a metrics/alerting stack and responding to incidents
- Solid grasp of security fundamentals: identity & access management (MFA/SSO, least privilege), host hardening, secrets handling, and patch management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Self-driven, self-organized, pragmatic, and comfortable working independently
Benefits
Bonus if you have
- Background in blockchain/web3 infrastructure (we run Acurast network and bridge services)
- Microsoft 365 / Entra ID administration (Conditional Access, Intune, Defender)
- Deeper security background: hardening, vulnerability/patch management, or a security certification
- Experience operating a TIG stack (Telegraf/Influx DB/Grafana) or other time-series monitoring
- Managed-cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure) and Kubernetes/Helm
- Terraform or other declarative Ia C (transferable to our Ansible setup)
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience scaling infrastructure in startup or high-growth environments
Why join Papers?
Work with cutting-edge web3 clients and technology.
- ️ 25 days paid vacation per year.
- 2 days of home office per week possible
High ownership, low bureaucracy — your voice matters.
- ️ Influence the Dev Ops strategy from day one.
Regular team events and retreats when possible.
Learning and development supported.
Systems & IT Engineer (w/m/d) 80-100% in Zug Arbeitgeber: Papers AG
Papers ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern die Möglichkeit bietet, an innovativen Web3-Projekten zu arbeiten und dabei eine hohe Eigenverantwortung zu übernehmen. Mit einer offenen Unternehmenskultur, die auf Meritokratie und langfristigem Denken basiert, fördern wir das persönliche Wachstum und bieten 25 Tage bezahlten Urlaub sowie flexible Home-Office-Möglichkeiten. Unsere Mitarbeiter profitieren von regelmäßigen Teamevents und einer starken Unterstützung für Lernen und Entwicklung, was Papers zu einem attraktiven Arbeitsplatz in der Schweiz macht.
