Platform Engineer

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Core Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain modern platform solutions that empower developers with fast, frictionless, and self-service access to runtime environments
• Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to co-design platform capabilities and provide them with a modern, customisable developer workplace with exceptional developer experience
• Develop intelligent automations to streamline platform operations, deployments, and maintenance tasks
• Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security of owned services, applying high-quality principles and proactive resilience engineering
• Provide support to key stakeholders, addressing complex technical challenges with a consultative approach and ensuring minimal disruption to business-critical services
• Drive continuous improvement by proactively identifying technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and scalability risks, and lead initiatives to elevate platform maturity, reliability, and developer experience

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards

YOUR PROFILE

Personal and Social

• Initiative taker, enthusiastic and mission oriented on delivering in sprints
• Ambidextrous, flexible to pick up new technologies and polyglot mindset
• Ability to question approach being followed & challenge the problem statement at hand
• Great communication skills and work ethics
• Great eye for detail, nuance, and gravity of situations
• Can operate in a fast-paced environment with changing requirements
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, stressful situations, and emergency situations
• Hands on development experience and a flair for setting an example for junior team members
• Prior startup product experience or demonstrated ability to lead a project independently is preferred

Professional and Technical

Professional

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Systems Engineer
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts, containerization, and orchestration with technologies like Kubernetes, Azure, and Ansible
• Highly self-motivated and proactive team player with a strong sense of ownership, customer-centric mindset, a hands-on mentality, and the ability to drive and manage change independently
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders, drive projects to completion, and overcome delivery challenges
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex functional requirements into efficient, practical, and fit-for-purpose technical solutions

Technical

Must Have:

• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and their integration into workflows
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Exposure to application servers setup and administration
• Proven track record in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

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