Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

• Full-time

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

Join Avaloq’s new, dynamic Platform Engineering team. Our mission is to design and deliver the cloud platform and developer experience that powers the next generation of banking solutions. We provide the building blocks for product teams to innovate quickly, safely, and at scale.

You will be surrounded by smart, highly capable people who are passionate about building secure, cost-efficient, and developer-friendly platforms for modern SaaS banking.

Your key tasks

• Design and implement Avaloq’s internal cloud platform to enable product teams with secure, scalable, and compliant foundations
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules, landing zones, and cloud-native blueprints for AWS
• Develop and optimize self-service deployment pipelines, testing frameworks, observability stacks, and golden paths for product development teams
• Establish and enforce DevSecOps practices: CI/CD automation, security scanning, compliance guardrails, and monitoring by default
• Collaborate closely with Product Development and SRE teams to balance velocity and reliability, reducing cognitive load on developers
• Mentor colleagues and drive a culture of platform-as-a-product, enabling autonomy while ensuring governance and efficiency

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in a related role
• Strong expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS), networking, security, and cloud-native architectures
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CDK) and landing zone design
• Proven track record in DevOps/Platform Engineering: CI/CD, monitoring/observability
• Understanding of financial services requirements (security, compliance, cost efficiency)
• Experience designing scalable SaaS platforms in a B2B context
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence, enable, and mentor product teams

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.

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