Senior Platform Engineer

Avaloq AG; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Avaloq AG's R&D Lab in Fort Lauderdale is hiring a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design and operate the AWS foundation and the developer experience that powers our composable banking platform. You will work with teams in Zurich, contribute to serverless-first architectures, build IaC modules with Terraform or OpenTofu, and drive cost visibility and governance across tenants.

You’ll mentor colleagues and help shape a platform-as-a-product culture that enables rapid yet safe product

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and operation of our multi-tenant AWS environment, including account structure, guardrails, and network and security baselines
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and landing zones using Terraform or OpenTofu
• Collaborate on the design of our observability approach for a distributed serverless system
• Work with the team on FinOps practice: cost visibility, per-tenant attribution, and tuning of concurrency, memory, and cost per invocation
• Help build the guardrails, access patterns, and cost controls for product teams consuming Amazon Bedrock
• Support platform identity across Amazon Cognito and federation into client-managed identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID for production workloads
• Share an on-call rotation with the other platform engineers, and help shape a coverage model that works across time zones
• Mentor colleagues and support a platform-as-a-product culture that gives teams autonomy without losing governance

Job description

Avaloq's R&D Lab is building a SaaS, API-first, composable banking platform. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will help design and operate the AWS foundation and the developer experience this platform runs on, so that product teams can ship quickly and safely, and our clients can run their data in a secure, performant, and stable environment.

This is amongst the first technical roles we are hiring for our Fort Lauderdale site. You will work closely with our team in Zurich.

The first 3-6 months:

Some of what you can expect early on:

• Learning our AWS environment and serverless platform setup in depth
• Working through open items from our Well-Architected Framework Review
• Contributing to the direction on observability tooling, together with the other Senior Platform Engineer, the SRE team, and our developers
• Taking on increasing responsibility as you build context, always in alignment with the Zurich team

What you will do:

• Contribute to the design and operation of our multi-tenant AWS environment, including account structure, guardrails, and network and security baselines
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and landing zones using Terraform or OpenTofu
• Collaborate on the design of our observability approach for a distributed serverless system
• Work with the team on FinOps practice: cost visibility, per-tenant attribution, and tuning of concurrency, memory, and cost per invocation
• Help build the guardrails, access patterns, and cost controls for product teams consuming Amazon Bedrock
• Support platform identity across Amazon Cognito and federation into client-managed identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID for production workloads
• Share an on-call rotation with the other platform engineers, and help shape a coverage model that works across time zones
• Mentor colleagues and support a platform-as-a-product culture that gives teams autonomy without losing governance

Our stack:

Serverless-first on AWS: Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, S3, and Bedrock. Terraform and OpenTofu for infrastructure, GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Product teams work in Rust, TypeScript, Python, Vue, and Angular. We do not run containers