Junior Linux/Unix System Administrator 100%

Ref 2585645 | Date: 15 Oct 2026

Academic Work Switzerland

Participate in a highly strategic and large-scale observability project, aiming to migrate more than 1000 applications within a collaborative technical team.

Junior Linux/Unix System Administrator 100% (M/F)
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About the role

Join a large French-speaking public institution and actively participate in the modernization of a major technological infrastructure!

You will join a dynamic team of 5 people responsible for ensuring the health and reliability of more than 1'000 key applications. As part of the global redesign of its monitoring system, the organization is launching the strategic migration of its entire application park to a new cutting-edge observability platform based on OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana.

Your mission? Take charge of the operational implementation of this migration, progressively integrate applications and support the technical team to deliver an ultra-reliable platform.

Tasks
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This role consists of ensuring the configuration, deployment and testing of observability tools on Linux infrastructures for a park of more than 1000 applications.

• Configure and deploy OpenTelemetry agents and collectors on Linux servers.
• Integrate third-party applications into the new observability platform.
• Create and adjust monitoring dashboards with Grafana.
• Define and configure metric rules via Jira tickets.
• Write short automation scripts in Bash or Python for deployment.
• Collaborate actively with application teams to ensure smooth integration.

We are looking for

• IT degree (CFC, ES, HES, Bachelor or Master)
• Solid foundations in Linux/Unix system administration
• Strong sensitivity to DevOps methodology/SRE culture
• Knowledge or initial practice of observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus
• Notions of scripting (Bash / Python)
• Fluent French, technical English.

To succeed in this function, your personal skills are the following:

• Supportive
• Goal-oriented
• Intellectually curious

Our recruitment process
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This recruitment process is managed by Academic Work and our client wishes that all questions concerning the position be addressed to Academic Work.

Our selection process is continuous and the advertisement may be closed before the end of the recruitment process if we have moved to the next phase. The process includes tests which are tools allowing to find the right talent for the right position, to promote equality, diversity and a fair process.

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