About the team

The Azure Application Hosting team at Swiss Re is seeking a Cloud Engineer with a focus on Kubernetes and Azure Cloud. We accelerate developer teams in the company by providing a standardized application hosting platform. The team is based in Zürich, Switzerland, and Madrid, Spain. We're looking for someone who is ready to contribute to our team's efforts and support Swiss Re's cloud initiatives.

About the role

In this role, you'll engage in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and application hosting using Kubernetes.

Your main responsibility will be to manage, improve and operate our shared application hosting platform for various types of applications in the Azure cloud.

A significant part of your role involves further engineering of the platform, but also ensuring the stability and operability of the platform.

This includes automating operational processes as much as possible.

You will also participate in an on-call rotation, to handle high-priority incidents.

About you

We’re looking for a passionate and engaged cloud engineer to join this amazing team.



You will be a problem-solver, eager to tackle challenging technical problems.

To be successful in the role, you need to have these technical skills and knowledge:

• Proficient in managing and operating Kubernetes in a public cloud.

• In depth hands-on experience with Azure, AWS or GCP, ideally Azure.

• Programming experience, ideally Golang.

• Strong with Infrastructure as Code tools and concepts.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps.

• Experience in cloud network infrastructure and security concepts.

We're looking for someone with strong hands-on experience in at least two of these three areas: Azure, Kubernetes or Go. You don't need to be an expert in all three, but you should be keen to learn and develop your skills in the third.

For Spain the base salary range for this position is between EUR 42,000 and EUR 70,000 per year (for a full-time role).

The specific sa

📌 Cloud Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Swiss Re
📍 Madrid