Senior Platform Engineer

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 5+ years in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps, with substantial hands-on AWS experience  Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, including multi-account and landing zone design  A clear point of view on observability for distributed systems, and the reasoning behind it  Solid automation and scripting ability. We are language-agnostic; Rust, TypeScript, or Python all work here  Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence and enable product teams  It would be a real bonus if you have:  Experience with AWS serverless and event-driven architecture, including idempotency, retries, dead-letter queues, and…