DevOps Engineer - Technology R&D Lab

Avaloq Group; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Avaloq Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer in the Technology R&D Lab to advance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for a cloud-native, API-first SaaS platform. You’ll collaborate with software and SRE teams to design reliable build, test, and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and modern cloud tooling.

The role emphasizes automation, secure delivery, and developer productivity, with hybrid work options and close coordination with the Senior SRE and engineering teams in a distributed

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in DevOps, release or CI/CD roles.
• Hands-on with GitHub Actions, pipelines, environments, and approvals.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, TypeScript) and cloud familiarity.
• Understanding of secure CI/CD practices and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test, release and deployment.
• Develop and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and automation standards.
• Support branching, PR, merge, tagging and release strategies across teams.
• Automate deployment across dev, test, staging and production with quality gates.
• Improve pipeline reliability, performance, observability and security controls.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Automation

Scripting

Cloud (AWS)

Security

Observability

Release Engineering

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS CDK

AWS Services

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Job 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 Lab as a DevOps Engineerfocused 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.

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.

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