DevOps Engineer - Technology R&D Lab

Avaloq AG; Makati; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Avaloq AG is seeking a DevOps Engineer to automate and improve how we build, test, package, release, and deploy software across our API-first, composable banking SaaS platform.

You will design reliable CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions automation, and environment promotion strategies, collaborating with software and test engineers and a Senior SRE to raise reliability and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Automate build, test, packaging, release, and deployment workflows.
• Develop reusable GitHub Actions and templates to standardize delivery.
• Incorporate security checks, tests, and quality gates into pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve delivery reliability and speed.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test, package, release, and deployment workflows
• Develop and maintain GitHub Actions workflows, reusable actions, pipeline templates, and automation standards
• Support practical branching, pull request, merge, tagging, and release strategies across engineering teams
• Automate deployment pipelines for development, test, staging, and production environments with clear quality gates and approvals
• Improve pipeline reliability, execution speed, observability, and failure handling across build and deployment processes
• Automate manual release and deployment steps to reduce operational effort and improve delivery consistency
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate automated tests, security checks, artifact handling, and deployment controls into pipelines
• Manage pipeline configuration, secrets, environment variables, and deployment permissions using secure DevOps practices
• Troubleshoot failed builds, blocked deployments, flaky checks, and release pipeline issues
• Contribute to infrastructure automation using Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CDK where needed to support delivery workflows
• Maintain clear documentation for CI/CD standards, branching models, release processes, and operational runbooks
• Work closely with the Senior SRE to align deployment automation with reliability, observability, and operational readiness goals

Skills

CI/CD automation

GitHub Actions

Release engineering

Terraform

AWS CDK

OpenTofu

Security checks

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS CDK

Git

Job description

Join our Technology R&D Lab as a DevOps Engineer focused on build and deployment pipeline automation for our API-first, composable banking SaaS platform. You will help improve how engineering teams build, validate, package, release, and deploy software using GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD automation, and modern cloud tooling.

Working closely with software engineers, test engineers, and a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will design and maintain reliable CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions automation, branching and release processes, deployment controls, quality gates, and environment promotion flows that support secure and repeatable delivery.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys automation, Git-based delivery workflows, practical release engineering, and improving developer productivity through reliable build, test, and deployment pipelines.

Your key tasks

• Design, build, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test, package, release, and deployment workflows

• Develop and maintain GitHub Actions workflows, reusable actions, pipeline templates, and automation standards

• Support practical branching, pull request, merge, tagging, and release strategies across engineering teams

• Automate deployment pipelines for development, test, staging, and production environments with clear quality gates and approvals

• Improve pipeline reliability, execution speed, observability, and failure handling across build and deployment processes

• Automate manual release and deployment steps to reduce operational effort and improve delivery consistency

• Partner with engineering teams to integrate automated tests, security checks, artifact handling, and deployment controls into pipelines

• Manage pipeline configuration, secrets, environment variables, and deployment permissions using secure DevOps practices

• Troubleshoot failed builds, blocked deployments, flaky checks, and release pipeline issues

• Contribute to infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CDK where needed to support delivery workflows

• Maintain clear documentation for CI/CD standards, branching models, release processes, and operational runbooks

• Work closely with the Senior SRE to align deployment automation with reliability, observability, and operational readiness goals