Senior Developer Workplace Engineer

Senior Developer Workplace Engineer

About the Role:
As a Senior Developer Workplace Engineer within the Developer Workplace team, you will be a key enabler in our vision to empower every developer at Swiss Re with a seamless, secure, and high-performance workplace. Your role is central to creating a
frictionless environment that fosters innovation, accelerates software delivery, and ensures compliance without sacrificing speed. By integrating automation, self-service solutions, and secure-by-design practices, you will help transform Swiss Re into a leading technology-driven reinsurer. Further you will partner with endpoint engineers, developer advocates, and IT Security to standardize developer workstations, automate onboarding and environment setup, and deliver self-service tools that allow engineers to provision their own dev/test environments and access the right packages and privileges from day one.

Developer Background:
Strong software development background with extensive experience in programming languages, preferably Java and .NET, along with scripting experience in Shell and PowerShell. Demonstrated ability to design and architect solutions with a
strong focus on security.

Developer Tooling Ecosystem Knowledge.

Deep understanding of the developer tooling ecosystem, including build tools, package managers, IDEs, and artifact repositories.

Hands-on experience with tools such as npm, pip, Maven, NuGet, Git, SDK installations, certificates, proxies, and container-based workflows.

Experience working in Linux-based environments.

Containerization Technology
Strong experience with container technologies, including building docker images, running containers, applying containerization best practices and exposure to container-based development is a plus.

DevSecOps
Proven experience working in a DevSecOps environment, integrating security practices into development and delivery pipelines.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management:
Demonstrate a strong passion for platform engineering and developer productivity, with the ability to shape long-term technical strategy and influence enterprise-wide engineering practices.
Proven ability to build trusted relationships across technical and techno-functional stakeholders, aligning diverse teams around a common vision and driving transformational change.
Ability to combine strategic thinking with excellent communication and leadership skills to balance technical excellence, business priorities, and organizational goals.

Nice to have:
Endpoint Management Tooling: Working knowledge or conceptual understanding of application packaging with Intune, chocolatey and app controls.

Experience Level

Senior Level