Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Description

Join our Cloud & Infrastructure Delivery Architecture team and play a key role in shaping the future of our modular, cloud-native banking platform. You will be contribute to the design, development, and deployment of our Avaloq Banking Solution SaaS offering on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), ensuring scalability, reliability, and automation. The team acts as the primary architectural interface between clients, delivery execution, and central architecture functions, ensuring alignment between customer needs, execution feasibility, and architecture standards.

Your key tasks:

• Develop end-to-end infrastructure and cloud solution designs for Avaloq SaaS on OCI
• Support Cloud Engineers and Developers ensuring solutions are deployable, scalable, and operationally sustainable
• Collaborate with internal teams and clients to deliver tailored cloud solutions aligned with strategic goals
• Provide expert-level support and guidance on cloud architecture and DevOps practices
• Contribute to cost optimization and implementation approaches
• Troubleshoot complex issues and drive continuous improvement in system performance and reliability

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or in a similar role
• Strong expertise in DevOps methodologies and Git-based project workflows
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, including Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Oracle Exadata, Oracle RAC, container orchestration, and enterprise deployment strategies
• Proficiency with automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible is strongly preferred
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and abstraction skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• A proactive, team-oriented mindset with a passion for innovation

It would be a real bonus if you have 

• Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is essential; experience with other cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus
• OCI Certified Solution Architect preferred
• Knowledge of cloud governance, landing zones, multi-region architectures, business continuity, and cloud security best practices
• Additional certifications in AWS, Azure, or GCP are advantageous
• Experience with enterprise observability and monitoring solutions such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/OpenSearch, or Splunk

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. 

Compensation: 105 to 125 (CHF) (MONTHLY)