AWS Infra Lead: AI-Driven, Cost-Smart Platform

Rivia; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivia in Zürich, Switzerland is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the AWS platform end to end, including EKS, RDS, MemoryDB, S3, IAM and networking. This on-site role reports to the CTO and sits with the engineering team.

You will drive cost optimization, reliability and CI/CD improvements, and push AI-native operations using agents to automate infrastructure tasks, audits and security controls.

Qualifications

• Experience as sole or first infrastructure owner at a startup.
• 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure or DevOps with AWS expertise.
• Production Kubernetes operations experience.
• Production-quality code and debugging in application codebases.

Responsibilities

• Own our AWS platform end to end across staging and production: EKS, RDS, MemoryDB/Redis, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, networking.
• Understand and reduce our infrastructure costs, from the Spark data pipeline to backups, and keep unit economics improving as customer volume grows.
• Own CI/CD and developer productivity: faster pipelines, fewer flaky tests, better internal tooling.
• Keep our Kubernetes workloads stable and scalable, including the services behind our AI features.
• Run identity and secrets management: Keycloak, SSO, OIDC.
• Build AI-agent workflows for infrastructure work, such as recurring audits of AWS for cost, security, and performance findings.
• Support external penetration tests and provide infrastructure evidence for ISO 27001 and client audits.
• Document core systems and runbooks so the platform does not depend on any single person.

Skills

AWS expertise

Kubernetes

CI/CD end-to-end

Cost optimization

AI-native operations

ISO 27001

Keycloak

SSO/OIDC

Datadog observability

Tools

Keycloak

Datadog

GitHub Actions

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Rivia in Zürich, Switzerland is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the AWS platform end to end, including EKS, RDS, MemoryDB, S3, IAM and networking. This on-site role reports to the CTO and sits with the engineering team.

You will drive cost optimization, reliability and CI/CD improvements, and push AI-native operations using agents to automate infrastructure tasks, audits and security controls.