Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Driven GCP/K8s (Remote)

Swissblock Technologies AG; Italia; Remote; EUR 163,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cutting-edge technology in financials

Profitable international company

Flat hierarchy and quick decisions

Remote-first culture (Europe) or on‑s‑

Annual bonus

25 days annual leave, pension, and ins

Job summary

Swissblock Technologies AG is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, deploy and operate our algorithmic trading platform in a GCP/Kubernetes setup. You will collaborate with quant engineers, data scientists and researchers to implement scalable architecture, apply SRE best practices, and drive AI-assisted automation while ensuring high availability across the stack.

You will lead infrastructure migrations, capacity planning, security audits, and cost optimization, shaping the future of

Qualifications

• At least 5 years operating production infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of GCP and Kubernetes at administrator level.
• Observability administration knowledge (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
• Infrastructure as code experience in a CI/CD DevOps environment (Terraform, GCP Config Connector, Argo).
• Unix, Linux, shell scripting, and networking experience.
• Solid working knowledge of infrastructure security, including secret and encryption management.
• Strong interest in AI methodology and automation.
• Proactive automation mindset, with a drive to remove repetitive work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive attitude.
• Strong sense for quality, reliability, and genuine curiosity to learn new things.

Responsibilities

• Drive in-depth analysis of architecture, design and implementation of our system.
• Maintain and enhance the existing infrastructure.
• Conduct architecture reviews, support vulnerability and incident response.
• Drive and track progress of infrastructure changes from concept to production.
• Perform workload and complexity assessments.
• Run security audits.
• Influence the technical direction of new services and initiatives.
• Work with engineers to define and uphold our concepts, SRE, and DevOps best practices.
• Evaluate and roll out AI-assisted tooling for the engineering team.

Skills

GCP Kubernetes

Observability

IaC Terraform

CI/CD

Unix/Linux

Security & encryption

AI automation mindset

English communication

Problem-solving

Quality & reliability

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

ClickHouse

NATS

Go

Python

REST APIs

Job description

Swissblock Technologies AG is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, deploy and operate our algorithmic trading platform in a GCP/Kubernetes setup. You will collaborate with quant engineers, data scientists and researchers to implement scalable architecture, apply SRE best practices, and drive AI-assisted automation while ensuring high availability across the stack.

You will lead infrastructure migrations, capacity planning, security audits, and cost optimization, shaping the future of