YOUR FUTURE, ON DEMAND
The ideal blend of stability and flexibility. A genuinely human employer that cares for people and the planet. True autonomy to shape what comes next, for us and you. This is the perfect platform to take your career where you want.
Back in 2005, we pioneered Europe’s first TV streaming service. Today, we’re the world’s first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. Several million users across three countries. Over 230 colleagues of 47 nationalities. We’re the grown-up start-up, helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasn’t changed, even if the world has. We’re friendly, international, inclusive – and our people say we’re reliable and transparent, too. It’s why they trust us and believe in what we do.
THE ROLE
As a Datacenter Specialist, you should be passionate about all areas of data center infrastructure. You will be an essential member of our dynamic team of experts supporting the company's streaming services.
You will help operate, maintain, and develop our Datacenters, Server and Network Infrastructure, while contributing to projects that extend capacity and connectivity. Your technical expertise will play a key role in ensuring the stable operations of our service and scaling our infrastructure.
Last but not least, you can play a key role in helping to transition our services to carbon-neutrality and allow us to fully live up to our core value of Sustainability, by identifying CO2 emitters and finding alternative solutions in hosting, powering and distribution.
THE OPERATIONS TEAM
At Zattoo we are building the TV platform of the future, and our growing Operations team controls the whole IPTV chain from satellite and Multicast ingest through hosting hundreds of servers, petabyte-scale storage and Tbps-scale streaming over our own network and CDN. There are many exciting areas to work on and to push TV to a new level.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Manage the operation, maintenance, and renewal of the entire high-availability datacenter infrastructure
- Install and expand hardware and its cabling - e.g. servers and switches
- Execute hardware troubleshooting and replacement
- Manage all patches within the datacenter - fiber optic, copper, etc.
- Participate in conversions to optimize and expand the datacenters
- Document the datacenter inventory - e.g. cabling, location of servers, etc.
- Conduct required night maintenance (< 5% total work time)
- Emergency work during incidents
- Perform day-to-day maintenance on servers, e.g. Debian/Linux installation
- Optional: Configure switches
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- Experience in operation, installation, and troubleshooting in all areas of a datacenter
- Proven knowledge of hardware installation and operations (power, and optical fiber cross-connects)
- Understanding basic cooling and electrical skills
- Understanding of fiber optical cables and standards
- Experience as a datacenter specialist, systems administrator, or operations position, ideally operating a high-traffic service or hosting provider
- Comfortable working with remote colleagues, multidisciplinary teams, and external partners
- Fluent verbal and written English language skills
- Basic knowledge of Linux
Bonus:
- Experience with Linux
- Basic network knowledge
- Basic training in electrical engineering
- Fundamental understanding of the Internet and modern web services (e.g. http(s), TCP/IP, Streaming)
WHY JOIN US?
At Zattoo, you’re always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. You’ll have the support and opportunity you need to go far, while you’re helping us create a sustainable and entertainment-filled future for all.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
- Reward: strong market-competitive salary
- Recharge: 27 days vacation plus public holidays
- Regulate:trust based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year
Plus:
- We’re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
- We're developing: Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
- We’re inclusive: ‘Zattooies’ are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
- We’re healthy: Health checks, team sports, organic fruit, vegan options and more!
- We’re responsible: We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team
- We’re sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event
Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer, join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to the future of TV.
You can learn more about us at: https://zattoo.com
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What We Do
We are one of the leading TV streaming providers in Europe with several million monthly users, serving both B2B and DTC markets. Founded in 2005, we have more than 250 employees and are headquartered in Zurich with another location in Berlin and remote presences in Europe and North America. With our DTC business, users in Switzerland, Germany and Austria watch a variety of TV channels as well as a selection of video-on-demand content on almost all available devices via the Zattoo apps. Since 2012, we have also been running our own B2B business, making our technology available to media companies and network operators as an international TV-as-a-Service platform. Zattoo strives to satisfy existing customers and users and attract new ones by offering state of the art TV features with a superior user experience across many devices and platforms. For our achievements as a TV streaming pioneer, we were awarded the Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 2020, among others. We act responsibly: We have been carbon neutral since 2020. We are taking active action to further reduce our carbon footprint. As the first TV streaming provider worldwide, we therefore even operate one of our data centres directly in a wind turbine. We are growing and we are looking for new team members. If you like space for creativity, want to feel empowered, if you prefer an atmosphere of continuous learning and trust based working then Zattoo is the right place for you. We have a culture of embracing mistakes as a measure of learning and a very respectful style of working together. At Zattoo we can be ourselves and simply do what we are best at
