VirtaMed AG is an established company with an interdisciplinary background in engineering and medicine, and winner of multiple national and international awards. We develop, produce, and distribute high-fidelity virtual reality/augmented reality simulators for the education of doctors and medical personnel. Similar to how pilots use flight simulators for training, we enable medical personnel to practice and gain experience in virtual reality and not just on the patient.

Junior Build & Site Reliability Engineer 100% (m/f/d)

In order to strengthen our Software Development Team, we are looking for a “Junior Build & Site Reliability Engineer” with a background and passion for building and maintaining tools, processes, documentation, and software infrastructure to support good quality and efficiency of our software development in order to provide our customers with the highest quality and most reliable simulators.

Your Work
You will be part of the DevOps and IT Team whose primary goal is to ensure that all other teams can continuously deliver high-quality software and efficiently release products. Together with the team, you will:

• Design and build tools, write scripts and tests and embed different levels of application pipelines into a consistent testing and deployment framework


• Improve a highly automated infrastructure used to configure bare metal and Virtual Machines to build a standardized system


• Define, develop, test, and operate Azure cloud-based infrastructure for our online products


• Perform troubleshooting and maintenance of applications, as well as infrastructure services, together with platform and product development teams


• Write documentation and give trainings, to support developers and testers in using automation in our delivery pipeline.

You will work closely with our world-class software engineering and QA team to include input from product management and from the field (sales and support).

Your Profile

• At least 2 years of experience working with continuous integration and deployment, and appropriate automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, Ansible)


• At least 2 years of background in software development or systems engineering, including scripting and source control


• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field


• Good technical skills in both Windows and/or Linux systems, including package management


• Experience with the Azure cloud platform from a development (CI/CD), including from an operations perspective.


• Experience with the following technologies is a plus: Virtualization (e.g., VMWare, HyperV, etc.), web servers, DB systems (e.g., SQL based), and artifact storage systems.


• You are pragmatic, solution- and team-oriented, creative, and know how to teach yourself new skills.


• You value standardization of processes, applications, and interfaces.


• You want to work in an international, dynamic, and established company where products are at the heart of our business and developed at a high pace.

VirtaMed is a very international SME with great future potential, and we can offer a highly dynamic and innovative working environment in the Zurich area. In our development teams, we are constantly working on our agile processes. You have a multitude of opportunities for bringing in your own great ideas to reach a higher quality of our products and are encouraged to take responsibility for your work. For more information, please visit www.virtamed.com.

We are looking forward to your application! Please send your curriculum vitae and motivation letter electronically to our HR department including your top-5 list on what makes a great development infrastructure.

For this vacancy, only direct applications can be considered; therefore, we do not accept profiles from recruitment agencies. If we receive a profile from a third-party, we reserve the right to contact the applicant without entering into an arrangement with the third-party.

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Arbeitsort:Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland

VirtaMed AG
Frau Michèle Bölke
Rütistrasse 12
8952 Schlieren

Telefon 044 500 96 90michele.boelke@virtamed.com