Platform Engineer

About the role

Julius Baer is transforming how its engineers build, deploy and run software, and is looking for a Platform Engineer to design, develop and operate scalable self-service platforms that power hundreds of applications across hybrid and cloud-native environments. The platform is used by the entire developer community and aims to give product teams fast, secure access to runtime environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain modern platform solutions giving developers fast, frictionless, self-service access to runtime environments.
• Co-design platform capabilities with software engineering teams and provide a modern, customisable developer workplace.
• Build intelligent automations to streamline platform operations, deployments and maintenance.
• Ensure high availability, performance, scalability and security of owned services, applying resilience engineering.
• Support key stakeholders and resolve complex technical challenges with minimal disruption to critical services.
• Identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks and scalability risks and lead initiatives to improve platform maturity and developer experience.
• Comply with regulatory and risk management standards, including honesty, integrity, fair dealing, conflict of interest management and adherence to applicable laws.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or Systems Engineer.
• Hands-on development experience and a preference for prior startup product experience or independent project leadership.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, question assumptions and communicate clearly.
• Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field background.

Required skills

• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
• Scripting in PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Cloud computing, containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes, Azure and Ansible.
• Application server setup and administration.