DevOps Engineer in Alliance Cloud CSI squad
Location: Brussels area, Belgium
Time Type: Full time
Job Description
ABOUT US
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Excellence
- Deploy changes, patches, and releases in test and production environments (core responsibility).
- Prepare, present, test and execute changes in Production - requiring on‑site presence 3 days per week.
- Perform occasional Production changes outside business hours (± once per month).
- Log, investigate and resolve/escalate operational issues occurring in test and production systems.
- Ensure high availability, data integrity, and security through appropriate controls and validation.
Systems & Platform Management
Maintain and operate a mission‑critical application deployed across multiple data centers, based on micro‑services and synchronous replication.
- Contribute to resiliency and capacity improvements in collaboration with other engineering teams.
DevOps & Continuous Delivery
Design, maintain, and evolve our DevOps pipeline using technologies including Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, Ansible, ArgoCD, and others.
- Participate in code and configuration reviews to enforce best practices, resilience, and consistency.
- Promote automation, shift‑left principles, and reliability‑focused engineering.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
Participate in change planning and risk mitigation activities.
Stay up to date on DevOps tools, SRE practices, modern deployment techniques, and industry trends.
- Suggest improvements to increase efficiency, quality, and operational robustness
Professional Qualifications
Profile & Soft Skills
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
- Autonomous, proactive, and comfortable driving improvements and managing change.
- Customer‑oriented with strong attention to quality and detail.
- Team‑player with an open, solution‑oriented mindset.
- Able to work effectively independently and collaboratively.
- Fluent in English (spoken and written) with strong communication skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Experience with agile methodologies is an asset.
Technical skills
Required
- Strong hands‑on experience with Linux systems (RedHat preferred).
- Experience with continuous delivery technologies: Jenkins, Git, Maven, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes, Kibana, OpenShift, Ansible, ArgoCD.
- Experience with databases (Oracle, H2) and data modelling.
- Understanding of SSL/TLS, HTTP/S, XML (schema, XSLT).
- Knowledge of distributed frameworks (Kafka, Zookeeper).
- Familiarity with scripting and automation (Python).
- Comfortable collaborating with Java development teams (reading logs, understanding stack traces, deployment artifacts, etc.).
Nice to Have
- Experience with secrets management, especially HashiCorp Vault.
- Experience with SRE practices, observability, or reliability engineering.
Why Join SWIFT?
Work on high-impact systems used worldwide in the financial industry.
- Join a global organization, collaborating with experts across three continents.
- Grow your expertise with access to SWIFT's global platform and learning ecosystem.
- Contribute to meaningful projects focused on security, reliability, and innovation.
- Work in an environment that values autonomy, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Ready to make an impact?
If you are a DevOps Engineer looking for a role where you can grow your skills, influence production quality, and contribute to mission‑critical systems, we’d love to hear from you.
Join us and help shape the future of secure financial communication.
What we offer
We give you a competitive package
We help you perform at your best
We give you the freedom to be yourself
We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.
We are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact [email protected] or indicate this in your application.
Please note that this mailbox is not monitored for general recruitment enquiries and should only be used for accessibility or accommodation-related requests (for example related to vision, hearing or neurodiversity).
All requests are confidential and will not affect your candidacy.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.
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