Senior Platform Engineer
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About the Position
Avaloq's R&D Lab is building a SaaS, API-first, composable banking platform. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will help design and operate the AWS foundation and the developer experience this platform runs on, so that product teams can ship quickly and safely, and our clients can run their data in a secure, performant, and stable environment.
This is amongst the first technical roles we are hiring for our Fort Lauderdale site. You will work closely with our team in Zurich.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and operation of our multi-tenant AWS environment, including account structure, guardrails, and network and security baselines
- Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and landing zones using Terraform or OpenTofu
- Collaborate on the design of our observability approach for a distributed serverless system
- Work with the team on FinOps practice: cost visibility, per-tenant attribution, and tuning of concurrency, memory, and cost per invocation
- Help build the guardrails, access patterns, and cost controls for product teams consuming Amazon Bedrock
- Support platform identity across Amazon Cognito and federation into client-managed identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID for production workloads
- Share an on-call rotation with the other platform engineers, and help shape a coverage model that works across time zones
- Mentor colleagues and support a platform-as-a-product culture that gives teams autonomy without losing governance
Requirements
- 5+ years in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps, with substantial hands-on AWS experience
- Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, including multi-account and landing zone design
- A clear point of view on observability for distributed systems, and the reasoning behind it
- Solid automation and scripting ability. We are language-agnostic; Rust, TypeScript, or Python all work here
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence and enable product teams
Nice to Have
- Experience with AWS serverless and event-driven architecture, including idempotency, retries, dead-letter queues, and failure handling
- Experience building AI agents to monitor platform health
- FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience
- Experience with identity federation into client-managed identity providers such as Entra ID, and with multi-tenant identity models
- Experience building or scaling a B2B SaaS platform
- Familiarity with financial services requirements around security, compliance, and auditability
- Strong CI/CD and automation background, ideally with GitHub Actions
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock or comparable managed AI services
- AWS certification, particularly DevOps Engineer - Professional, Solutions Architect - Professional, or Security - Specialty
We Offer
- Hybrid and flexible working to maintain work-life balance
- Opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions
- Collaborative, supportive, and flexible work environment
About the Company
Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 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.
This role will require regular travel to Switzerland
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