Swiss The telecommunications and software development company Swisscom has decided to open its second DevOps center outside Switzerland, according to the information provided by it.
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The investment project was implemented in cooperation with the Latvian Investment and Development Agency (LIAA).
Swisscom is the largest telecommunications service provider and one of the leading IT companies in Switzerland. The company offers services to both end users and business customers.
The decision to expand outside Switzerland was made in accordance with Swisscom’s strategy to establish one of the leading technology development centers in Europe by 2025. “The demand for IT services and innovation is growing, but it is becoming more and more difficult to attract the necessary professionals to meet this demand, so the decision to expand outside Switzerland is a logical step to continue our development path,” the company said.
“Latvia, and especially Riga, has an internationally good reputation as a fast-growing center of technology development and software development. The state invests in the education of qualified IT specialists, which forms a good basis for Latvia to become an important center of digital excellence. Therefore, Swisscom believes how to Riga is an ideal place for the development of its technology center. It should be emphasized that this will be only the second Swisscom technology center outside Switzerland, the first to be opened in Rotterdam in 2019, “the company said in a statement.
The Swisscom DevOps center in Riga was established on October 8, 2020, and the first engineers will start working in January 2021. Initially, the company will be located in the temporary “Workland Telegraph” co-working premises in Old Riga, but later it will move to “Z Towers” in Pardaugava. By the end of 2021, Swisscom plans to attract 40 employees, the selection of which has already begun.
Swisscom pays very little attention to the employee hierarchy. As the Swisscom center in Riga is being rebuilt, all its future employees will be involved in shaping the company’s structure, processes and work environment. A good example will be the relatively recently established center in Rotterdam, which was modeled on this model.
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