Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

• Cloud-Native Automation: Design, build, and manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions on OCI using Terraform + Orchestration tooling, enabling automated, repeatable, and auditable deployments
• Collaboration & Enablement: Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to enable rapid, secure deployment of services
• Platform Reliability: Lead implementations which balance rapid feature delivery with system reliability, leveraging Monitoring, Logging, and Alarms
• Continuous Improvement: Drive platform evolution by evaluating emerging OCI features, modern DevOps tools, and fintech best practices, fostering a culture of innovation and learning
• Security & Compliance: Integrate DevSecOps practices, embedding financial data security, regulatory compliance (e.g. PCI DSS, SOC 2), and automated governance into CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Significant experience in implementing public cloud infrastructure (at least one: AWS / OCI / Azure)
• Advanced skills in IaC (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, or similar), and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in scripting/automation (Typescript, Bash, Go, Python) and experience in observability/monitoring solutions
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Strong grasp of SRE, GitOps, and platform engineering practices in highly regulated, high-scale environments

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Experience with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), including core services (Compute, Networking, Object Storage, OKE, IAM, Vault, etc.)
• Ansible

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.