DevOps Engineer (Jira and Confluence)

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Your Team
The team is looking for a committed and competent DevOps Engineer, who will join our Engineering Division - the strategic applications team designs, which runs services across all the Avaloq businesses. We maintain a high level of quality, pay attention to details and deliver by bringing software into production.

You will work closely with technology vendors, infrastructure providers and the software development division to provide world class services. You will continuously work on technical and process improvements, keeping both incremental and disruptive options in mind.

Your mission
As part of the team, you will contribute to the global delivery of our highly valued Engineering services and shape the future!

Responsibilities:

• You must be able to understand and implement the needs and requirements of our internal and external clients
• Troubleshoot incidents affecting the software development application stack
• Coordinate requirements with different user groups and vendors
• Take responsibility in interdisciplinary projects and in a broad application landscape
• Synchronize your work with international teams

What you need

We are looking for an experienced person in the Atlassian environment, i.e. a Atlassian certification for Jira and/or Confluence, with at least one to two years of experience with system administration/configuration for Jira and Confluence.

• Depth know-how of administrating and configuring Jira (Software and Service Management) and Confluence
• Experience in integrating third-party systems and plugins with Atlassian products
• Completed higher education in the IT area or comparable qualification
• Can work independently and reliable
• Good communication skills in writing as well as verbally

You will get extra points for the following

• Basic Unix system knowledge & experience, preferably centos and/or RHEL
• Basic database knowledge (e.g., SQL)
• Basic network understanding and troubleshooting with good knowledge of ssl/tls protocols
• Setup and configure virtual hardware (vSphere / cloud experience) and infrastructure

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.