Site Reliability Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

DON’T LEAVE BANKING TO BANKERS
Founded by two engineers, Swissquote makes trading opportunities accessible to everyone and we challenge everything that makes traditional banking irrelevant.

Join our 120 IT Engineers to challenge the code and bring your enthusiasm & sharpness on cutting-edge Fintech projects such as eTrading, eForex, Robo-advisory, cryptocurrencies and more.
Our Tech stack is 100% Cobol free! See: Java, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes... and we always try to find the best tools for the right needs. Have a look at our Tech Blog!

As an always-evolving company, we strive to challenge our organization, making teamwork and innovation more than just values.
You will be able to accelerate your career in a fast-moving and rock-solid company: during these last couple of years, our bank has become the Swiss leader in online trading. We still keep growing and despite the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to deliver exceptional results in 2020.

Job Description

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Swissquote and active member of the SRE Automation team, your main mission will be to supercharge delivery, automate processes and promote the self-service platform !

Working with both Software Engineering and IT Departments, you will help the team to facilitate the project delivery pipelines (CICD), ensure the automation and evolution of platform processes (APIs, CLIs, GitOPS), and enable the adoption of platform self-service model (Config-as-code, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Helm, Docker, ArgoCD). 

The IT SRE Automation team encourage autonomy, education and continuous improvements for all the team members in an Agile and collaborative environment.

At Swissquote we are embracing the DevOps culture and looking for rockstars to help make that culture a reality.

Responsibilities

  • Autonomy on projects and proposals based on research
  • Own post-build CI/CD pipelines
  • Provide cross team, cross department automation tools related to CI/CD
  • Publish & Maintain platform state metadata and events via APIs
  • Identify and automate manual processes to reduce toil
  • Publish and maintain state metadata via APIs
  • Research, proposition and evolve platform tools
  • Abstract platform access into APIs, CLIs and config-as-code
  • Define standardized, reusable templates for classic & kubernetes deployments
  • Provide delivery runbooks for easy application onboarding & maintenance
  • Normalize way of developing IT tools and scripts

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • BS/MS degree in Computer Science OR related technical field experience involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), OR equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience OR portfolio projects in one of more of the following: SRE or DevOps Position, Software Development, Systems Administration or IT Operations
  • Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Perl, GO, Rust, Bash, Java.
  • Experience using different flavors of *nix (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, SLES, Solaris, CentOS)
  • Experience and Interest for CICD, gitops, Cloud (Kubernetes) and self service workflows
  • Experience with IaaS and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform or Puppet
  • Experience working with Kubernetes
  • Ability to communicate to collect and share knowledge within and outside the team
  • Proactive, enthusiastic and willing to learn new skills, technologies and tools
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, French is an asset

Additional Information

A BANK THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE ONE
Located near Geneva and the lake, our Headquarters gathers 600 of our employees: young (34 years old average), multicultural (50 nationalities) and wearing what suits them best. You will find a friendly atmosphere in an open and inclusive environment. Spacious offices, home-office policy, outdoor terrace, sports clubs and even... a real Pub for after-work moments.

Make your move in a challenging environment that offers you an exciting opportunity to boost your career and develop solid banking and financial business expertise.

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