avacone Switzerland
avacone Switzerland
avacone Switzerland provides consulting and technology services for organizations across pharmaceuticals, chemicals, logistics, and other regulated or operationally complex sectors. Its work combines managed IT services, technical support, engineering, project management, and compliance expertise, with a focus on connecting business needs to practical technology solutions. The company operates from Switzerland and maintains offices in Spain, Romania, and Canada, supporting clients across multiple industries.

Data Centre Engineer – Storage, Compute & Virtualisation, Basel Onsite

Maintain enterprise compute, storage and virtualisation platforms in Basel, Switzerland. Support automation, resilience, disaster recovery and hybrid cloud integration.

Description

  • Design, deploy and operate enterprise compute, storage and virtualisation platforms.
  • Assist with the physical installation and connectivity of servers, network equipment and storage systems.
  • Coordinate cabling and hardware deployments with external partners.
  • Administer virtualisation environments through troubleshooting, performance monitoring, capacity planning and availability management.
  • Track system performance and environmental conditions, escalate emerging issues and follow established operating procedures.
  • Contribute to incident, problem, change and lifecycle processes, including participation in the on-call rotation.
  • Support disaster recovery, platform resilience and business continuity initiatives.
  • Deploy, configure and maintain enterprise storage solutions.
  • Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code to simplify operations and increase efficiency.
  • Maintain and diagnose existing automation workflows while contributing to proofs of concept for emerging technologies.
  • Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional teams through meetings, technical discussions and knowledge sharing.
  • Help integrate hybrid cloud capabilities with existing Data Centre services.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience engineering enterprise Data Centre environments.
  • Advanced knowledge of compute, storage, virtualisation, operating systems and backup technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with virtualisation platforms and their management ecosystems.
  • Knowledge of storage protocols, data protection, replication and high-availability principles.
  • Understanding of infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning and performance optimisation.
  • Experience developing scripts, automation and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and hybrid operating models.
  • Understanding of security baselines, privileged access controls and infrastructure hardening.
  • Experience operating critical platforms within a structured production environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
  • Typically six to ten years of relevant experience, or demonstrable expertise suited to the role.
  • Strong grasp of platform reliability, security, resilience and operational excellence.
  • Experience working within incident, problem, change and lifecycle management processes.
  • Ability to document technical solutions and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Commitment to ongoing learning, professional development and relevant industry certifications.
  • A collaborative engineering mindset focused on continuous improvement and automation.

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