Azure Platform Engineer - 12 month contract

Summit Recruitment AG; Basel; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Summit Recruitment AG is assisting a Swiss financial institution in Basel with a cloud platform engineering role focused on Azure guardrails, policy and governance. You will design, implement and evolve guardrails and landing zones, and drive secure, compliant cloud infrastructure in a SAFe environment.

The role requires 8+ years in cloud or platform engineering, deep hands-on Azure DevOps and Terraform experience, and fluent German with good English.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps.
• Terraform at production scale.
• Proven cloud governance experience: Azure Policy, RBAC, landing zones, guardrails and compliance controls.
• Experience in regulated environments such as banking, insurance, pharma or the public sector.
• A secure by design mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve Azure guardrails covering policy, RBAC, identity, networking and landing zones.
• Develop infrastructure as code in Terraform, including reusable modules consumed by other teams.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and help migrate to it.
• Embed security and compliance controls into the platform by design so they are inherited by default.
• Contribute across the wider platform: Linux, containers and observability.
• Work closely with security, architecture and product teams within a SAFe setup.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Azure Policy

RBAC

Landing zones

Guardrails

Security by design

German (C1+)

English

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Azure Policy

Job description

Location - Basel, 2 days onsite and 3 days home office

Language - Fluent German (C1+) and good English

Experience - 8+ years

About the client

Our client is a well established Swiss financial institution with its headquarters in Basel. Its IT organization runs on SAFe, and the Platform team builds the foundation that every other product team builds on: automation, Azure, DevOps, Linux, containerization and observability.

You will join the department that owns the Azure guardrails, security and compliance of that platform. In a highly regulated environment, this team makes sure the platform is secure and compliant by design, so everyone building on it starts from solid ground.

What you will do

• Design, build and evolve Azure guardrails covering policy, RBAC, identity, networking and landing zones
• Develop infrastructure as code in Terraform, including reusable modules consumed by other teams
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and help drive the ongoing migration onto it
• Embed security and compliance controls into the platform so they are inherited by default
• Contribute across the wider platform: Linux, containers and observability
• Work closely with security, architecture and product teams within a SAFe setup

What you bring

• 8+ years in cloud, infrastructure or platform engineering
• Strong hands on experience with Azure DevOps
• Terraform at production scale
• Proven cloud governance experience: Azure Policy, RBAC, landing zones, guardrails and compliance controls
• Experience in regulated environments such as banking, insurance, pharma or the public sector
• A secure by design mindset. You build it right the first time rather than building first and securing later
• Fluent German (C1+) and good English

Nice to have

• Azure certifications such as AZ-305, AZ-400 or AZ-500
• Policy as code tooling (Azure Policy, OPA, Checkov)
• Container platforms such as AKS, plus solid Linux skills
• Observability tooling (Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience working in a SAFe organisation