Avaloq

Senior Platform Engineer

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9 hours ago
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate the multi-tenant AWS environment, including account structures, guardrails, network and security baselines.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and landing zones using Terraform or OpenTofu.
  • Collaborate on observability for a distributed serverless system.
  • Develop FinOps practices for cost visibility, per-tenant attribution, and invocation-cost optimization.
  • Build guardrails, access patterns, and cost controls for product teams using Amazon Bedrock.
  • Support platform identity through Amazon Cognito and federation with client-managed identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID.
  • Participate in a cross-time-zone on-call rotation and help shape the platform coverage model.
  • Mentor colleagues and promote a platform-as-a-product culture that balances team autonomy with governance.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps.
  • Substantial hands-on AWS experience, including multi-account and landing-zone design.
  • Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu.
  • A well-developed perspective on observability for distributed systems.
  • Strong automation and scripting ability; experience with Rust, TypeScript, or Python is applicable.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence and enable product teams.
  • Preferred experience with AWS serverless and event-driven architecture, including idempotency, retries, dead-letter queues, and failure handling.
  • Preferred experience building AI agents for platform-health monitoring, FinOps or cloud-cost optimization, identity federation, multi-tenant identity models, or B2B SaaS platforms.
  • Familiarity with financial-services security, compliance, and auditability requirements.
  • Strong CI/CD and automation experience, ideally with GitHub Actions.
  • Experience with Amazon Bedrock or comparable managed AI services.
  • AWS certification is a bonus, particularly DevOps Engineer - Professional, Solutions Architect - Professional, or Security - Specialty.

Benefits

  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements are available for most employees.
  • The role requires regular travel to Switzerland.
  • The position is based at the Fort Lauderdale site and works closely with the Zurich team.
  • Avaloq promotes an equal-opportunity and inclusive work environment.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAngularAWSGitHub ActionsPythonRustTerraformTypeScriptVue.js

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About Avaloq

1,001-5,000 employees

Avaloq develops core banking and digital wealth management platforms and provides banking-operations outsourcing for financial institutions, delivered via cloud SaaS, BPaaS, or on-premises deployments. Its clients include private, retail and investment banks; more than 170 institutions use its systems. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Zürich, Avaloq is a subsidiary of NEC Corporation.

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