Senior Team Lead (f/m/d) Infrastructure & Tooling

100% Zürich

Hexagon Robotics is a division of Hexagon – a global leader in precision measurement. Established in 2025, Hexagon Robotics develops humanoid robots for industrial sectors to address labor shortages and enable the transition from automation to autonomy. The first humanoid product, AEON, was launched in June 2025 and combines agility, awareness, spatial intelligence and versatility to provide a market-leading solution for automotive, transportation, aerospace, manufacturing, and logistics customers.

 

We are searching for a Senior Team Lead Infrastructure & Tooling to own and drive our Infrastructure, DevOps, and Tooling teams. In this role, you will lead and grow your teams while actively contributing to the stack, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, compliance, and cost efficiency across our infrastructure. You will set standards for CI/CD, observability, and developer experience, define and execute the infrastructure roadmap aligned with robotics R&D and product milestones, and provide clear technical direction through mentoring, coaching, and hands-on collaboration.

Your Mission

  • Lead the infrastructure, DevOps and Tooling teams (line management) and act as tribe lead (sub-project lead) 

  • Own reliability, scalability, security, compliance and cost efficiency of all infrastructure 

  • Establish standards & metrics for CI/CD, observability, and developer experience across teams. 

  • Define and execute the infrastructure roadmap aligned with robot R&D and product milestones.  

  • Provide cohesive technical direction for your teams and support them in decision making 

  • Uphold a high-quality & delivery standard and grow your team members trough mentoring, coaching, planning, design and code reviews 

  • Drivel hiring in collaboration with the recruiting team to further build out the teams 

  • A team lead position where in your day to day you are expected to dive deep into the stack and contribute yourself. 

Your Skillset

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field 
  • Proven track record (5+ years) as an individual contributor in Infrastructure, DevOps or related fields. 
  • Experience in leading and the hiring of highly skilled engineers and the interest to grow further your leadership and management skills 
  • Independent leader with ability to balance pragmatism and long-term platform thinking. 
  • Experience building full hybrid (cloud/on-prem) infrastructures for R&D teams and transitioning into production environments. 
  • Experienced with following tech stack: Linux environments, Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), Terraform / OpenTofu, Prometheus/InfluxDB/Grafana, GitOps & Docker  
  • Strong system design thinking across compute, networking, storage, and observability. 
  • Experience running critical production systems with on-call responsibility. 
  • Experience with robotics or edge and MLOps is a plus 
  • Experience with Nix is a plus. 

What You’ll Get

  • Flexible working hours and a hybrid model for real work-life balance
  • Generous vacation: 25–30 days depending on age
  • CHF 500 mobility credit for sustainable commuting
  • Bonus system & strong pension contributions
  • Tailored training & development opportunities
  • Relocation support for a smooth start
  • Discounts on health, mobility & entertainment
  • Team events and a flat hierarchy where your voice counts
  • A warm, international culture built on respect and collaboration

Great robots need great people.

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Contact

David Rank 

Senior Recruiter / HR Generalist
E-Mail: david.rank@hexagon.com

Hexagon Robotics
Räffelstrasse 26, 8045 Zürich
https://robotics.hexagon.com/