DevOps
One of the main goals of our DevOps organisation is to become the best and coolest DevOps@Software team! To achieve this ambitious goal, we invest in innovation, DevOps skills, security, agility and autonomous teams, quality/stability and mastery.
To be successful in the market, we need the best software talent. However, our experience shows that the Swiss labour market is not able to provide the amount of talent we need. This situation will be exacerbated by the strong recruitment competition in Switzerland. We have therefore decided to establish the Swisscom DevOps Centre in Rotterdam, which will enable us to recruit any type of talent worldwide.
Our journey began in May 2019, when the Swisscom DevOps Center was founded as a subsidiary that perfectly complements the existing DevOps organisation of Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd. To start our operations in Rotterdam, NGTI, also a Swisscom company based in Rotterdam, was kind enough to sublet us office space. This support gave us plenty of time to set up the DevOps centre.
At the end of the year 2020 the Swisscom DevOps Centre Rotterdam will already count around 140 employees and we are a very international company having people working from 40 nationalities from all over the world. A young team of an average age of 32 years is part of a start-up environment, backed-up by the number one telco provider in Switzerland and one of the leading IT companies.
Due to our steady growth, we had to look for our own offices. In World Trade Center(opens in new tab) we have found the perfect office in the vibrant heart of Rotterdam. Since 1 July, we have been the official tenant of the 18th floor. Two more floors will follow to provide a nice mix of workspaces, common areas and even a chic play area. Rotterdam is a very international and multicultural city, easy to settle in and a great place to live.
The design on all three floors is based on the concept of the city and agile collaboration. Attention was paid to openness, brightness and translucency, which emphasises the eccentric, oval shape of the office and offers a breathtaking 360-degree view of the city. There are hardly any meeting rooms or walls. Many things can be easily moved and positioned as required.
It's a very exciting journey to become the best and coolest DevOps centre in Europe. The opening in Rotterdam is a key factor in the success of our strategy to utilise external services, which is an element in the battle for talent and a massive boost to our DevOps expertise, and it has been a project defined and designed by employees for employees from the start.
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