Systems Engineer (80–100%)

Systems Engineer (80–100%)

Your Mission

We are looking for a curious and motivated Systems Engineer to join our Edge Cloud team. You will contribute to building and maintaining custom virtual test platforms and cloud provisioning workflows that power our SASE edge deployments. As part of this small but prolific team, an entrepreneurial mindset will be your most valuable asset.

Your responsibilities will include:

Lean Development: Code in quick MVP cycles, work closely with users and iterate on the product based on their feedback

Thoughtful AI-Partnership: Leverage co-pilot for efficiency gains without sacrificing deep understanding and craftsmanship of your product’s code base

Customer Focus: Keen awareness of customer needs and the impact of platform operations on internal engineering teams

Problem Solving: Proactively identify problems, propose solutions, and take responsibility for delivering them

Operational Support: After completing an internal training course covering networking and security topics, you’ll spend 20% of your time solving real time customer issues to stay close to our product in the wild

Your core products will include:

In-House Testing Platforms: Build, operate and optimize the virtual test infrastructure that teams across engineering use to validate releases on our custom operating system before production rollout

IaC Network Deployment Pipelines: Develop and maintain IaC templates that provision and manage infrastructure on Azure and GCP

Your perks include:

Mentorship: Work with a highly competent and engaged group of engineers for whom teaching is a valuable part of the job

Responsibility: Fully own solutions with daily impact for internal engineering teams

Flexibility: Enjoy a mix of joining the Zurich office’s lively working vibe and remote work

Paradise: The operational support shifts mentioned above come with the opportunity to work 3 months from Hawaii

You will need to be independently driven - but we won’t throw you out to the wolves. You will work closely with senior engineers, SREs, and platform teams as you develop your skills.

Your Qualifications

You are early in your engineering career with a solid academic foundation and a genuine interest in empowering the other engineers around you, networking/security, automation, and Linux systems. You are curious, eager to learn, quick to acknowledge what you don’t know and comfortable asking questions.

Required skills and qualifications:

Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

A hacker mindset - done is better than perfect

University degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or similar

Foundational knowledge of at least one scripting or programming language (Python/Go preferred)

Linux systems and command-line usage

Comfortable with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows

Basic understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S)

Bonus skills and qualifications:

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, or AWS)

Exposure to Terraform, Terragrunt, or other IaC tools

Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, or similar)

Interest in or coursework related to network security or SASE architectures

Experience with Bash

Extra bonus points will be given if you’re able to express your personal interest in this specific job in 3-5 sentences as part of your application when you're given a chance to leave a comment for the recruiting team. We’re specifically looking to get a feel for you with this - not to read something generic/AI generated.

About us

Want to join a team that enjoys making secure connectivity simple for our customers? You’ll be among people who believe in:

Caring PASSIONATELY about keeping our customers safe – We’re dedicated to solving problems. Whatever it takes.

Thinking UNCONVENTIONALLY to stay ahead – The world never fails to surprise us. So let’s surprise it first.

Doing the hard work to make things SIMPLE – Craft and hone something that delights in its simplicity.

Working COLLABORATIVELY to build success – The power of the team will always make us faster and better.

As a testament to this, Open Systems has been recognized as an outstanding place to work. You’ll be surrounded by smart teams who enrich your experience and provide opportunities you will need to develop your skills and advance your career.

We look forward to receiving your online application (please note that you need to compress your application into two attachments). Only direct applications will be considered.

Come as you are! We are looking for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Open Systems welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.

What Open Systems does

Open Systems is about secure connectivity made easy, combining SD-WAN, Firewall, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA into a framework that supports secure connectivity across cloud and hybrid environments and locations. Open Systems Managed SASE provides a comprehensive SASE solution through an easy-to-use customer portal, underpinned with a unified data platform to drive future innovation, all delivered as a 24x7 managed service.