IT Infrastructure Specialist – Windows Server / VMware

Take your infrastructure expertise to the next level! Join a dynamic IT environment where you'll ensure the stability of business-critical systems while driving infrastructure modernization, migrations, and future-ready architecture.

• Administer, maintain, and optimize Windows Server and VMware environments to ensure reliable and efficient infrastructure operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure incidents, implementing sustainable remediation measures to maintain system stability.
• Manage day-to-day IT infrastructure operations, ensuring availability, performance, and operational continuity.
• Contribute to infrastructure migration and implementation projects, supporting the modernization of existing IT environments.
• Participate in the design and implementation of a future-state infrastructure architecture, bringing hands-on technical expertise to transformation initiatives.
• Support and maintain Active Directory, Cisco networking components, firewalls, and storage infrastructure.
• Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to ensure seamless infrastructure operations and successful project delivery.

Our client is an established international professional services organization supporting businesses through complex operational, technology, and transformation challenges. Working across industries, it combines advisory expertise with practical delivery to help clients modernize critical systems, strengthen resilience, and navigate change. Its teams collaborate closely with organizations in highly regulated environments, where reliability, security, and long-term thinking are essential. For this assignment, you will join a technically focused team supporting a financial services customer in Switzerland. The environment offers a balance of hands-on infrastructure operations and forward-looking transformation work, including migrations and architecture improvements. You will work alongside experienced specialists, contribute to business-critical infrastructure, and help shape a stable, modern technology landscape that supports evolving customer needs in a dynamic international setting.

• 5–10 years of relevant professional experience in IT infrastructure administration, engineering, or a comparable technical role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Windows Server administration and VMware technologies.
• Solid experience managing and troubleshooting Microsoft Active Directory environments.
• Practical knowledge of Cisco switches, firewalls, and enterprise storage infrastructure.
• Proven ability to investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical incidents.
• Experience supporting both operational infrastructure activities and infrastructure implementation or migration projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with a proactive, hands-on approach.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Residence in Switzerland is mandatory, as access to customer systems is restricted to Switzerland.
• Knowledge of SQL is considered an advantage.
• German and/or French language skills are a plus.

• Location: Zurich, Switzerland
• Workload: 100%
• Working model: Hybrid – 3 days per week on-site in Zurich and approximately 2 days remote
• Customer visits: Approximately 2–3 visits per month in Zurich, with occasional travel within Switzerland
• Start date: ASAP, no later than December 1, 2026
• Contract duration: Until February 28, 2027, with the possibility of a long-term extension