DevOps Engineer - Technology R&D Lab

Avaloq Philippines Inc.; Makati; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Avaloq Philippines Inc. is seeking a DevOps/CI-CD engineer to advance our API-first, cloud-based SaaS platform. You will build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, automate GitHub Actions workflows, and ensure secure, repeatable delivery across development to production stages.

You will work with software engineers and SREs to improve reliability, speed, and observability of deployment processes, embracing IaC and modern cloud tooling.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in DevOps, Build Engineering, Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, or CI/CD automation.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in production environments.
• Strong practical experience with GitHub Actions, workflows, environments, approvals, and secrets.
• Understanding of Git workflows, branching, versioning, and release management.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with AWS and modern cloud delivery pipelines.
• Knowledge of secure CI/CD practices and least-privilege permissions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test, release, and deployment workflows.
• Develop and maintain GitHub Actions workflows, reusable actions, templates, and automation standards.
• Support practical branching, PR, merge, tagging, and release strategies across engineering teams.
• Automate deployment pipelines for development, test, staging, and production with quality gates and approvals.
• Improve pipeline reliability, observability, and failure handling across build and deployment processes.
• Automate manual release steps to reduce effort and improve delivery consistency.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate tests, security checks, and artifact handling into pipelines.
• Manage pipeline configuration, secrets, environment variables, and deployment permissions securely.
• Troubleshoot failed builds, deployment issues, and release pipeline problems.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation using Terraform/OpenTofu/AWS CDK as needed.
• Maintain documentation for CI/CD standards, branching models, and runbooks.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Python

Bash

TypeScript

AWS

Security

Communication

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS CDK

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Join our Technology R&D Labfocused on build anddeploymentpipeline automation for ourAPI-first, composable bankingSaaS platform.You will helpimprove how engineering teams build,validate, package, release, and deploy software using GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD automation, and modern cloud tooling.

Working closely withsoftwareengineers, test engineers, and a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you willdesignand maintainreliable CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actionsautomation,branchingandreleaseprocesses, deployment controls, quality gates, and environment promotion flowsthatsupportsecureand repeatabledelivery.

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 andmaintainGitHub 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

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in DevOps, Build Engineering, Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, or CI/CD automation
• Hands-on experience building andmaintainingCI/CD pipelines in production engineering environments
• Strong practical experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions, including workflows, triggers, jobs, environments, approvals, secrets, and reusable automation
• Good understanding of Git workflows, pull request practices, branching strategies, versioning, tagging, and release management
• Experience automating build, test, package, deployment, and environment promotion processes
• Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures, deployment issues, flaky checks, and integration problems across engineering teams
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, TypeScript, or similar languages
• Familiarity with cloud deployment concepts and AWS services used in modern delivery pipelines
• Understanding of secure CI/CD practices, including secrets management, least-privilege permissions, and deployment controls
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a distributed engineering environment

Highly valued:

• Experience standardizing CI/CD practices across multiple repositories or engineering teams
• Experience with trunk-based development,GitFlow, release branches, feature branches, or other branching and release models
• Experience using GitHub environments, deployment approvals, protected branches,requiredchecks, and code ownership rules
• Experience integrating automated testing, code quality, security scanning, dependency checks, or artifact management into pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform,OpenTofu, or AWS CDK
• Experience operating AWS-based, serverless, or event-driven SaaS platforms
• Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, orOpenTelemetrytomonitordeployment and runtime health
• Knowledge of rollback, blue-green, canary, or progressive deployment approaches
• Familiarity with financial services platforms, regulated environments, or audit-sensitive release processes
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

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