Senior Cloud Engineer - Financial Data

Job description:

Your Mission:

• Enabling the staging environment for comprehensive business testing
• Managing the SaaS third-party Tagetik application (upgrades, monitoring, etc.)
• Management of the Kubernetes cluster and the Azure subscription (e.g. increasing security, managing alerts)
• Collaborating in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in the cloud
• Working closely with the development teams to understand their needs and code infrastructure deployments in Terraform
• Keeping documentation concise, accurate, and up to date
• Contributing to continual improvement, e.g. increasing automation, better observability, and removing technical debt
• Providing third-level support during critical periods

About the customer:

For our client, a global leader in the insurance and reinsurance industry, we are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer - Financial Data.

Everyday is a different day

You will join a small team engineering and supporting Cloud Engineering solutions in Microsoft Azure for the finance data & analytics area of an international financial services firm. One day you might be creating and testing terraform; another managing our Kubernetes cluster; while the next increasing the observability of one of our products; on yet another day you might be pulled into a complex problem and need to investigate a performance issue in Databricks

• Start: ASAP or latest June 2025
• Duration: until 31.12.2025, possible extension
• Location: Zurich, 4 days/week onsite
• Pensum: 100%, 41.25h/week
• Contractor at Swisslinx

Requirements:

Your Profile:

• Degree in applied science, engineering or computer science (or equivalent applied professional experience)
• Minimum 5 years of experience as Cloud Engineer with great skills in Microsoft Azure
• Good experience writing terraform (preferable a Terraform Associate)
• Good general understanding of networking, compute and security concepts relevant to the public cloud
• Good skills with a shell/scripting language e.g. PowerShell or Bash
• good working knowledge of git
• Experience with at least one RDBMS
• Being fluent in Python is a plus
• Strong interest in/motivation to learn about insurance/reinsurance
• Excellent in English, verbal and written

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Online Application

If you are ready to make an impact today, we are looking forward to your online application with your latest CV and your availability. If your profile is shortlisted, our consultant will contact you for a first call to discuss the details.