Senior AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineer (Basel)

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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 Python 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
• International environment