Platform Engineer

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Geneva, Geneva

Primary Duties

• Design, build, automate and operate the production platform across AWS and on-premises infrastructure.
•  Own, maintain and evolve the HashiCorp platform, including Vault, Consul, Nomad and associated integrations. 
•  Use Terraform to define and manage infrastructure resources, configuration and reusable platform modules. 
•  Use Ansible to support multi-stage deployment workflows, configuration management and repeatable operational procedures. 
•  Build internal tooling, automation and self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead. 
•  Support and enhance CI/CD platforms and engineering workflows, including the safe promotion of infrastructure and platform changes. 
•  Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance and operational excellence. 
•  Partner with software engineers, quantitative developers, research teams, Technology Operations and security colleagues to deliver secure, scalable and resilient platforms.

Education, Knowledge and Experience

• At least five years’ experience in platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering or a closely related role.
•  Strong experience operating production or production-like infrastructure, ideally across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. 
•  Hands-on experience with HashiCorp technologies, particularly Nomad, Consul and Vault. 
•  Strong Linux systems administration and networking knowledge, including DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing, firewalls and certificate management. 
•  Strong infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform. 
•  Experience using Ansible, including playbooks, roles and inventories. 
•  Experience building automation or operational tooling using Python, Go, Bash or a similar scripting language. 
•  Experience with GitHub or similar source-control platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and infrastructure change management. 
•  Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure. 
•  Experience with Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS, and Docker or other container runtimes. 
•  Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki or Datadog. 
•  Experience with artifact-management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory. 
•  Knowledge of AWS Batch, AWS Step Functions, AWS Identity and Access Management and Karpenter would be advantageous. 
•  Experience supporting hybrid-cloud platform migration or modernisation would be advantageous. 
•  Experience designing secure platforms within regulated environments. 
•  A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cyber Security or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
•  Relevant certifications in HashiCorp technologies, cloud platforms, Linux, security, networking or DevOps would be advantageous.

Benefits