A bit about the role
The Senior Cloud Operations Specialist role in the Cloud and Infrastructure Division is responsible for the overall delivery of all application services in the Avaloq Financial Cloud by providing leadership and coaching support to a team of Cloud Operations Specialist. Additionally, this role is expected to cover a 24/7 shift pattern as well as support customers in different countries and in multiple cloud environments.
Your key tasks:
- Provide leadership, guidance and coaching to a growing team of Cloud Operations Specialist
- Provide support to reliable and efficient cloud operations through monitoring and ensuring service availability, optimizing service performance and overall maintaining service health for Avaloq SaaS customer
- Improve quality and reliability of Avaloq SaaS service through automation, orchestration and integration of cloud infrastructure and operations
- Balance automation speed and reliability with well-defined Service Level objectives
- Partner with software and infrastructure development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures of multiple large distributed software applications
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning to create sustainable systems and services through automation
A bit about you
- College degree in computer science, engineering or other related field that provides similar skills
- Vendor specific certifications from AWS/Azure/Google/OCI
- Experienced in leading a team, managing and distributing workload
- 3 to 5 years of experience working in a public cloud services environment using Azure/AWS/GCP/OCI
- 2 to 4 years of experience in DevOps and Cloud automation
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Git, Jenkins, JSON)
- Experience with Cloud Observability tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus / Grafana, Kibana, OpenSearch, PagerDuty)
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.
Benefits
Annual bonus
At Avaloq we work hard to remain an industry leading provider and we love to reward our colleagues with a share of that success with an annual bonus, you will even remain eligible for annual bonus while you do the hardest job of your life – taking care of your children during parental leave.
Flexible working
We understand that fitting your life around your job can be challenging which is why in most roles we offer flexible working to allow you to thrive both in and out of work.
Instant recognition
We love to see people thriving in their roles and we have an instant recognition scheme at Avaloq to help managers reward the great work our colleagues deliver with a gift to say thanks.
Access to Udemy for professional and personal learning
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A bit about us
Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 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.