Senior AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

Senior AI Infrastructure \& Platform Engineer (Basel)

Description of the company

Our client is a well-established financial institution known for its long-standing stability, international footprint, and commitment to operational excellence. The organisation fosters a collaborative culture, values expertise, and promotes continuous improvement across its global technology and data functions.

Role \& Responsibilities

As Senior AI Infrastructure \& Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, operating and continuously improving enterprise-grade AI infrastructure platforms supporting advanced machine learning and generative AI initiatives. You will work closely with infrastructure, platform engineering and data science teams to build highly available GPU-enabled environments and scalable container platforms capable of supporting large-scale model training and inference workloads.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, implement and operate GPU-enabled infrastructure platforms for AI and machine learning workloads

Administer and optimize Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms supporting enterprise AI services

Manage high-performance computing (HPC) environments, including bare-metal and virtualized GPU systems

Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform and GitOps methodologies

Troubleshoot complex platform issues involving Linux, networking, storage, Kubernetes and GPU architectures

Support AI and data science teams with platform provisioning, resource allocation and operational excellence

Implement platform monitoring and observability solutions

Participate in incident management and on-call rotations

Candidate Profile

You hold a university-level degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and bring several years of current, hands-on experience operating large-scale Linux and containerized infrastructure environments.

Additionally:

Minimum 5 years of enterprise infrastructure engineering experience

Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments

Proven experience operating Kubernetes and/or OpenShift platforms in production environments

Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, ArgoCD and Ansible

Practical experience supporting NVIDIA GPU infrastructures and GPU-enabled computing environments

Knowledge of GPU architectures and technologies such as NVLink, PCIe switching and GPU virtualization

Experience with Prometheus, Grafana and infrastructure monitoring solutions

Strong Shell and scripting capabilities

Experience working in highly regulated enterprise environments is advantageous

Fluent in English; German advantageous

Valid CH work permit or EU/EFTA citizenship required

Willingness to work 100% on-site

Benefits:

Central city office locations across Switzerland

Above average insurance coverage fully borne our client

Contribution to health insurance and meal allowance

Excellent opportunities for further training and personal development

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