Job Detail

Education First (EF) is a world-leading language learning company. EF EdTech is the division whose mission is to revolutionize the ways students, parents and teachers engage with their subject and with one another.

At EF we engineer solutions to design, build, test and maintain large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems. We combine software and systems engineering to ensure that both our internally critical and our externally visible systems are highly available. We strive to provide practices such as blameless post-mortems, proactive identification of potential outages and reducing operational work via automation.

Our team is made up of a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we provide an environment with the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.


• Collaborate with application teams before the launch of a new service by running activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.


• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.


• Run High Availability hybrid cloud platform services internationally inc. China.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc, BEng in Computer Science, other technical subjects, or equivalent qualification or technical experience.


• Excellent knowledge of network protocols/services (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, firewalls, load balancers) and shell scripting.


• Experience in one or more of the following: C++, Java, Python or Go.


• Experience with at least one of the major cloud providers: AWS, Azure or GCP.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience running infrastructure for consumer-facing services, ideally for a mass market.


• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.


• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.


• Best practices for security, monitoring, logging and alerting.

BENEFITS AND FUN STUFF:

• Competitive salary.


• Accident insurance.


• 25 days paid holiday.


• Relocation bonus for candidates moving abroad.


• Reimbursement for Swiss travel half pass.


• Discounted German lessons.


• Discounts at local shops and restaurants.


• Bookable free passes for mountains, museums, boats etc.


• Beautiful lakeside listed building as office.


• Great office atmosphere with events, talks, happy hours and excursions.