Deploy & Configuration Engineer
- Full-time
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
The Deployment & Configuration Engineer is responsible for managing and orchestrating the end-to-end deployment lifecycle across all environments, ensuring that changes are delivered safely, consistently, and on schedule. Acting as a central coordination point, the role bridges Project Delivery and Service Operations, aligning project timelines with operational stability requirements.
The position serves as the quality gate for all deployment activities, enforcing standards, governance, and process adherence. It also acts as the release orchestrator, coordinating multiple technical teams (infrastructure, platform, middleware, and application) to ensure readiness, manage dependencies, and resolve blockers impacting deployment execution.
Additionally, the role is accountable for environment management and test readiness from an infrastructure perspective, ensuring environments are stable, properly configured, and aligned with release schedules. Continuous improvement, automation, and standardization of deployment practices are key expectations, along with participation in on-call rotations and weekend deployment activities when required.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in deployment, release management, or environment management within enterprise IT environments
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure)
- Experience coordinating cross-functional technical teams across multiple domains
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation practices
- Solid troubleshooting skills and ability to resolve complex technical dependencies
- Strong communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholders and provide clear status reporting
- Ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressure environments with multiple concurrent initiatives
It would be a real bonus if you have
- Experience with Kubernetes and container-based platforms
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform)
- Experience in regulated environments (banking, insurance, or similar)
- Familiarity with ITIL or similar operational frameworks
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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