Senior Site Reliabilty Engineer

Senior Site Reliabilty 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 our Technology R&D Lab as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and help shape the operational foundation of a new generation of cloud-native, composable banking platforms. You will design and evolve the systems, automation, and practices that keep our SaaS products reliable, observable, and secure as we scale globally.

You will work closely with Platform, Security, and Product teams to embed reliability and performance into every layer of the stack, ensuring our ability to deploy rapidly and repeatedly so that innovation, performance and stability move in lockstep.

Your key tasks

• Design, implement, and manage observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Develop reliability automation and self-healing systems to detect and remediate issues proactively
• Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to drive data-informed reliability improvements
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient architectures, load balancing, and capacity management strategies
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to reduce operational toil and risk
• Lead incident response and post-mortem practices to drive continuous learning and system hardening
• Define cloud-agnostic reliability standards supporting multi-cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Design and implement robust disaster recovery solutions ensuring seamless 24x7 operations
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure operational processes align with regulatory expectations (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR)
• Contribute to a culture of shared ownership, mentoring engineers on reliability, scalability, and observability practices

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability or DevOps roles for distributed, cloud-native systems
• Strong command of infrastructure and automation technologies (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Kubernetes)
• Deep understanding of monitoring, alerting, and incident management frameworks
• Experience operating across at least two major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling
• Proven ability to design and manage highly available, fault-tolerant architectures
• Knowledge of security and compliance requirements in financial or regulated environments
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a pragmatic approach to balancing speed and stability

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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