Senior IT System Engineer
Sven Meyer
Sensor: SGP
Favourite place at Sensirion: at Lake Zurich
Sports team: ZSC Lions
Travel Destination: Maledives
Sven Meyer has been a Senior System Engineer at Sensirion since 2013. After an apprenticeship as an electronics engineer, Sven completed his federal certificate as a computer scientist and later added a degree in business informatics. Before joining Sensirion, Sven worked as a consultant.
As a System Engineer at Sensirion, Sven ensures that the entire IT infrastructure and its associated systems, such as the servers for email and data backups, are always in good working order and up to date. His daily work is full of variety. He’s responsible for different tasks within the area of Infrastructure Services on an alternating schedule including monitoring and maintaining the servers, checking backups and processing inquiries from other departments or employees.
With the steady growth of the company and the generation of ever-rising data volumes, which requires continuous expansion and development of the systems, Sven is never bored. It’s also important that Sven and his colleagues are up to speed with the current versions and updates of the entire IT infrastructure. This is why they constantly strive to optimize the systems and correct any errors that might arise.
Here, everyone works as a team and big decisions are always taken together.
Sven especially appreciates the friendly and supportive atmosphere at Sensirion. Here, everyone works as a team and big decisions are always taken together. Sensirion also offers a great deal of freedom to employees to advance their own ideas and projects. A project that Sven remembers particularly was the integration of the US and Chinese operations into Sensirion’s IT system. As part of the project, he was on-site in the US for several weeks to assist with the set-up and integration of the servers.