Senior DevOps Platform Engineer - Banking

About the job

Senior DevOps / Observability Engineer for the development and further enhancement of a central, hybrid observability platform in a regulated banking environment.

Senior DevOps Platform Engineer - Banking

Job description:

For a long-term project, we are looking for a Senior DevOps / Observability Engineer with a strong understanding of architecture. The goal of the role is to develop, advance and technically implement a product-oriented solution architecture for a central observability platform.

You will ensure that a scalable, automated and regulation-compliant observability solution is developed and integrated into a hybrid IT landscape. You will work at the interface between architecture, platform engineering, security, ITSM and project management.

Your tasks will particularly include:

• Contributing to the product-oriented solution architecture with a focus on feasible and automatable designs
• Designing, standardising and implementing OpenTelemetry (OTEL), especially collector/gateway architectures and pipelines
• Building and further developing the observability platform using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps
• Creating and advancing Terraform modules, configuration templates and Helm charts
• Integrating the platform into hybrid on-premises and Azure environments
• Considering network, security, IAM and regulatory requirements
• Designing and implementing automated onboarding processes, self-service functions and automatic provisioning
• Supporting pilot onboardings, MVPs as well as PoC/PoV activities
• Developing migration scenarios and target architecture mappings for the replacement of existing legacy solutions
• Integrating with ITSM processes such as incident/event management and CMDB
• Collaborating with platform, application, security, risk/compliance and ITSM teams
• Supporting architecture reviews and architecture gates
• Coaching internal DevOps teams as well as creating technical operations and security documentation

About the customer:

Our client is an established Swiss financial institution with a highly regulated and complex IT landscape. As part of a strategic transformation programme, a central observability platform for hybrid on-premises and cloud environments is being built and further developed.

Requirements:

• 5–7 years of experience as a solution architect or in a comparable technical architecture role for observability platforms
• Experience in regulated environments, ideally banking or insurance
• Proven practical experience with at least one modern observability stack in production environments
• Very good practical knowledge of OpenTelemetry, especially collector/gateway architectures, configuration, operation and scaling
• Experience in designing and operating hybrid platforms with on-premises and Microsoft Azure
• Very good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and GitOps
• Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms
• Experience with network, security and IAM/RBAC concepts
• Experience with ITSM integrations, for example incident/event management and CMDB
• Knowledge of regulatory and security requirements in the financial sector, especially FINMA, BYOK and data residency
• Ability to translate technical architecture concepts into production-ready and automatable solutions
• German C1
• English B2

Nice to have

• Experience with AKS and OpenShift
• Very good knowledge of Terraform and Helm
• Experience with self-service onboarding and automated provisioning of observability components
• Experience with legacy migrations in the observability environment
• Experience with Agile / SAFe
• Good knowledge of Jira, Confluence and Git-based development and operations processes

Compensation benefits:

• Workload: 100%
• Contract duration: 04.01.2027 to 31.12.2027
• Participation in a strategic observability and transformation programme within a modern hybrid banking IT
• Collaboration with enterprise architecture, security, compliance as well as platform and application teams