DevOps Engineer - Technology R&D Lab
A bit about the role
Join our Technology R&D Lab as a DevOps Engineer focused on build and deployment pipeline automation for our API-first, composable banking SaaS platform. You will help improve how engineering teams build, validate, package, release, and deploy software using GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD automation, and modern cloud tooling.
Working closely with software engineers, test engineers, and a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will design and maintain reliable CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions automation, branching and release processes, deployment controls, quality gates, and environment promotion flows that support secure and repeatable delivery.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys automation, Git-based delivery workflows, practical release engineering, and improving developer productivity through reliable build, test, and deployment pipelines.
Your key tasks
Design, build, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test, package, release, and deployment workflows
Develop and maintain GitHub Actions workflows, reusable actions, pipeline templates, and automation standards
Support practical branching, pull request, merge, tagging, and release strategies across engineering teams
Automate deployment pipelines for development, test, staging, and production environments with clear quality gates and approvals
Improve pipeline reliability, execution speed, observability, and failure handling across build and deployment processes
Automate manual release and deployment steps to reduce operational effort and improve delivery consistency
Partner with engineering teams to integrate automated tests, security checks, artifact handling, and deployment controls into pipelines
Manage pipeline configuration, secrets, environment variables, and deployment permissions using secure DevOps practices
Troubleshoot failed builds, blocked deployments, flaky checks, and release pipeline issues
Contribute to infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CDK where needed to support delivery workflows
Maintain clear documentation for CI/CD standards, branching models, release processes, and operational runbooks
Work closely with the Senior SRE to align deployment automation with reliability, observability, and operational readiness goals
A bit about you
- Minimum 3 years of experience in DevOps, Build Engineering, Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, or CI/CD automation
Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in production engineering environments
Strong practical experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions, including workflows, triggers, jobs, environments, approvals, secrets, and reusable automation
Good understanding of Git workflows, pull request practices, branching strategies, versioning, tagging, and release management
Experience automating build, test, package, deployment, and environment promotion processes
Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures, deployment issues, flaky checks, and integration problems across engineering teams
Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, TypeScript, or similar languages
Familiarity with cloud deployment concepts and AWS services used in modern delivery pipelines
Understanding of secure CI/CD practices, including secrets management, least-privilege permissions, and deployment controls
Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a distributed engineering environment
Highly valued:
Experience standardizing CI/CD practices across multiple repositories or engineering teams
Experience with trunk-based development, GitFlow, release branches, feature branches, or other branching and release models
Experience using GitHub environments, deployment approvals, protected branches, required checks, and code ownership rules
Experience integrating automated testing, code quality, security scanning, dependency checks, or artifact management into pipelines
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CDK
Experience operating AWS-based, serverless, or event-driven SaaS platforms
Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry to monitor deployment and runtime health
Knowledge of rollback, blue-green, canary, or progressive deployment approaches
Familiarity with financial services platforms, regulated environments, or audit-sensitive release processes
Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot
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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Benefits
- Annual bonus or sales reward
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.
- Kudos instant recognition scheme
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
We think it is important to learn and grow professionally, but if you are someone who likes to learn outside of work we give you access to online learning for both professional and personal learning, with over 210,000 courses to choose from.
About us
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.