DevOps Engineer Technology R&D Lab

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 

Qualifications :

• 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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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time