API Platform/DevOps Engineer (80-100%)

Publication date:31 October 2025
Workload:80 – 100%
Place of work:Zurich, CH

Job summary

Join SIX as an API Platform/DevOps Engineer in Zurich. Shape the future of finance!

Tasks

Operate and enhance the corporate API Gateway for reliability.
Design and implement features based on business needs and automation.
Collaborate with teams to ensure smooth and compliant integrations.

Skills

Experience in DevOps or platform engineering is required.
Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and GitLab CI.
Proficient in scripting and automation tools like Terraform and Helm.

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About the job

SIX drives the transformation of financial markets.

What sets us apart drives us ahead: between local roots and global relevance, we are a unique blend of tradition and future, of foundation and growth. We value bright minds and inspire them to grow with their ideas. Come and shape the future of finance with us.

API Platform/DevOps Engineer (80-100%)

Zurich |working from home up to 40% | Reference 7422

Our Corporate API Platform is at the heart of this mission — connecting internal and external APIs across on-premises and cloud environments. We’re looking for an API Platform / DevOps Engineer to help us operate, and enhance this strategic platform.
In this role, you’ll combine platform ownership, operational excellence, and automation to deliver reliable, modern API connectivity at scale.

What You Will Do

Operate and evolve our corporate API Gateway (Kong) on OpenShift and Azure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

Design and implement new features and platform capabilities driven by business and customer needs.

Automate and optimize infrastructure and deployments using GitOps practices and IaC tools like Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, and GitLab CI.

Enhance observability and performance through OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch, improving visibility across metrics, logs, and traces.

Collaborate across teams (network, security, product, infrastructure) to ensure smooth, compliant, and high-performing integrations.

Increase reliability and release safety through progressive delivery patterns, capacity planning, and well-documented operational playbooks.

Participate in incident response and on-call rotations, contributing to a culture of blameless postmortems and continuous improvement.

What You Bring

Solid experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE-like roles, operating production systems.

A strong DevOps mindset with proven experience in automation, reliability, and scalable operation; intermediate scripting or programming skills (Bash, Python and/or Go) is desirable

Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes / OpenShift, Docker, Helm, GitLab CI, Terraform, Argo CD, Vault, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Solid understanding of proxy / reverse-proxy / gateway concepts, TLS / mTLS, certificates, OAuth / OIDC, REST, WebSockets, OpenAPI, and GitOps / CI/CD practices.

Knowledge of distributed tracing, observability tools (OpenTelemetry, logging pipelines, dashboards), and API security standards, governance, and lifecycle management is a plus.