Senior Technical Integration Engineer

Project overview

Job Title: Senior Technical Integration Engineer

Reference: 26-04-7180-001

Responsibilities

Education:

Primary Skills:

Important Skills:

• Perform the necessary actions for the integration, deployment to development, testing, and production of applications, aiming for optimal operability and respecting the expected service level.
• Participate in defining the technical architecture of the applications to be implemented.
• Install, configure, and parameterize applications in the different environments.
• Implement or have implemented the operational assets (probes, batch jobs, tests, deployment industrialization) defined in previous phases.
• Write and complete application operational documentation, submit it for validation to stakeholders, and register operational assets in repositories (ITSM, CMDB, and ITAM in particular).
• Perform technical acceptance testing of applications, including verification of operability requirements.
• Contribute to the deliverables expected at the pre-production milestone.
• Ensure change management with IT operations teams to minimize Level 2 operational tasks.
• Provide on-call support within standard hours, as requested by the service or sector manager or a service manager.
• Provide standby and intervention support outside standard hours, as requested by the service or sector manager or a service manager.
• Intervene at Level 2 for production incidents and routine production tasks, as requested by Run service managers (operational incidents, IT production management, and publishing).
• Take charge of change coordination: impact analyses, timelines, and rollback plans.
• Lead and participate in due diligence projects (operational takeover).
• Lead and participate in service projects aimed at evolving integration tools and practices.
• Actively participate in continuous improvement actions for practices and tools, particularly to minimize Run interventions.
• University of Applied Sciences degree or Bachelor's degree in IT, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH/EPF) engineering degree, or federal diploma.
• More than 6 years of experience in all the skills below.
• Good knowledge of IT production operations.
• Ability to integrate an application on all types of technologies autonomously.
• Understanding of technical and application architectures.
• Experience with a scheduling tool (production plan design, scheduling chain creation, execution monitoring): BMC Control-M.
• Global IT skills and good knowledge of component families in an infrastructure environment (access, applications, databases, storage, servers, virtualization, security, etc.), particularly in system administration.
• Good command of Windows Server and Linux / Unix environments.
• Skills in at least two of the following middlewares: Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, IIS.
• Skills in application deployment automation and application playbooks: YAML and Ansible.
• More than 4 years of experience in all the skills below.
• Good command of shell scripting: Korn shell, PowerShell.
• Good knowledge of DevSecOps principles and associated deployment methods: Git, Ansible, GoCD.
• Ability to evolve the integration and operation of a complex system or platform.
• Experience with application monitoring tools: Nagios, HP BSM, Splunk, JMeter.
• Good knowledge of ITIL v4 processes and best practices (validated by ITIL v4 certification), specifically in Service Transition.
• Experience with integration testing automation tools: Robot Framework.

Nice to have

Required Qualities:

• More than 2 years of experience in all the skills below.
• Skills in containerization principles and associated tools: Docker, Helm, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Kustomize, GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience in monitoring containerized solutions, including the use of Prometheus and Grafana tools.
• Skills in load testing and diagnostic tools HP Performance Center and Compuware Dynatrace.
• Skills in operating an ETL.
• Experience in operating IaaS and PaaS cloud services and software hosting platforms: vRealize.
• Skills in techniques for exposing technical solutions via APIs, including the use of Python language and Django framework and Swagger API tools.
• Experience in deploying applications and implementing operational assets for online services dedicated to citizens requiring a high level of availability (electronic forms, communication websites).
• Dynamism and initiative.
• Ability to work under stress.
• Ability to work in a team and share knowledge.
• Good writing and communication skills.
• Ability to manage conflict situations.
• Project management and coordination skills.
• Willingness to question oneself and to learn (personal or technical training).
• Open attitude towards change.
• Ability to perform on-call duties outside standard hours and during weekends, on a rotating basis within the team.

Project details

Geneva

Desired Start Date: January 2027

100%

Compensation: from 125,000 CHF / year

Job Description and Context:

We are looking for a senior technical integration engineer for a client, a public administration in Geneva, to strengthen its integration service. As part of a DevSecOps approach, this service orchestrates the transition of applications from development to testing and then to production, automates their operation, and contributes to maintaining high-service level systems, including critical systems, operational 24/7.

The selected person will create integration and operational assets, ensure application operability and the quality of production deployments, and assist service managers in applying processes and best practices. On-call duties, standbys, and emergency call-outs (including weekends, on a rotating basis) are to be expected. The mission is subject to a client accreditation procedure and fiscal secrecy. Long-term mission (up to 3 years).

• Start: flexible
• Location: Geneva, Geneva, CH
• Languages: French