Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer

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.

Your key tasks

• Build & run our cloud SaaS environments by monitoring availability, optimizing system performance and taking a holistic view of system health
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
• Build software and systems to manage and automate platform infrastructure and applications
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software as a service solutions
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning to create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts

• University degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Solid experience in implementing public cloud concepts and models
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Go or Java including object-oriented design
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code, e.g. Terraform and using it with a cloud provider such as AWS, AZURE or OCI.
• Gitops experience, using git as daily activity (Github or Gitlab or Bitbucket)
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Drive to standardize, streamline, and automate processes
• Experience with Observability (e.g. Cloudwatch, Prometheus / Grafana, Kibana, Elastic Search)

It would be a real bonus if you have 

• Expert of cloud SaaS security best practices
• Configuration management tooling (e.g. Puppet, Ansible)
• Github actions, experience using AI assitance, AI prompt engineering with terraform.

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