Overview

DevOps Middleware Specialist – Bioggio

 

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

We are looking for a DevOps Middleware Engineer for a team of motivated, enthusiastic and committed colleagues who always take the time to look at complex issues from all sides, who together master the challenges of day-to-day business, and who make the job of “running the bank” in Avaloq a success. On our way to the cloud, we are providing an ever-increasing range of microservices to best combine availability and scalability.

Your key tasks

  • Declaration of infrastructure components in Terraform for Oracle, GPC, AWS, MS Azure, and the private cloud of our service provider
  • Use of current technologies and tools for continuous improvement and automation of system operation
  • Set-up, operation, monitoring and maintenance of the systems for the realization of the offered services
  • Assumption of tasks within the ITSM lifecycle, especially in performance, service, change, asset, incident, and problem management
  • Participation in on-call duties
  • Administration and configuration of web application server
  • Coding of automation and monitoring scripts
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to ensure efficient and scalable deployment processes
  • Issues investigation and troubleshooting
  • Contribution to the design, technical documentation, implementation, and administration of enterprise applications
  • Middleware refreshment and patching
  • Collaboration with specialists of different areas for the implementation of cross-domain activities
  • Ticket management (L2/L3 support) in collaboration with our strategic 3rd party suppliers
  • On-call service (7×24) and early/late shifts

 

Qualifications

  • Computer science degree or successfully completed training in the IT field or comparable professional experience
  • Good Linux knowledge (Windows is considered a plus)
  • Basic understanding of network protocols and architectures (TCP/IP, MPLS, peering, hub & spoke)
  • Practical experience with at least one cloud provider (Oracle is preferred)
  • Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Strong experience with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub, CloudInit, Ansible)
  • Basic knowledge of software development
  • Strong teamwork and communication skills and strong customer focus
  • Experience in analysing technical problems and preparing and automating recurring administrative activities
  • Experience in administration of J2EE Application Server (JBoss, WebLogic, Tomcat)
  • Experience in Secure Data Transfer topics (SFTP, Queue Management)
  • Knowledge of SSL and digital certificates
  • Ability to work on multiple tasks and cope with strict deadlines
  • Fluent in English

 

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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