Lead Cloud Engineer

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

The Role

Bring your passion for DevOps and platform engineering to life by enabling modern, automated cloud-native delivery across complex enterprise environments. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work in agile, multidisciplinary teams to design, build, and operate scalable platforms that empower developers and accelerate delivery for the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

In this role, you’ll drive GitOps and Everything-as-Code practices, architect advanced CI/CD pipelines, and build self-service, on-demand environments that improve developer experience and productivity. You’ll be hands-on with Kubernetes operations, infrastructure automation, observability engineering, cloud-native security, and modern deployment strategies.

You will shape end-to-end DevOps capabilities—from automated environment provisioning and secure service mesh networking to monitoring-as-code, secrets automation, and resilient runtime operations. Your work will ensure faster releases, higher reliability, and stronger compliance in a mission-critical environment.

At Zühlke, we value craftsmanship, collaboration, and continuous learning. You’ll work closely with our global community of experts, supported by cutting-edge tools and a culture that encourages curiosity and innovation.

What’s Important to Us

You bring a blend of technical depth and consulting mindset, ideally from DevOps, cloud transformation, or platform engineering roles. You are comfortable exploring new technologies, simplifying complex systems, and working directly with clients to guide engineering best practices.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering in enterprise or consulting environments.

• Strong expertise with AWS, including EKS, networking, IAM, security, automation, and managed services.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).

• Hands-on experience building scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Jenkins.

• Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar).

• Proficiency in containerization and Kubernetes, including Helm, Kustomize, and automated cluster operations.

• Experience implementing GitOps workflows with Argo CD or similar tools.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, ingress controllers, load balancers, VPC design, and service discovery.

• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or Dynatrace.

• Familiarity with DevSecOps tooling such as SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy, Vault, and AWS Secrets Manager.

• Experience with automated testing, quality gates, and performance testing frameworks (e.g., Testcontainers, JUnit/Kotest, k6).

• Operating databases and caching layers (RDS/Aurora, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis).

• Managing API gateways (Kong, API Gateway, Apigee) and event streaming platforms (Kafka/MSK, RabbitMQ, SQS).

• Knowledge of chaos engineering, resilience testing, or policy-as-code (OPA).

• AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications.

• You communicate effectively, work well in agile teams, and thrive in an environment that values continuous improvement, sharing knowledge, and delivering lasting impact for clients.

What we offer

• Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company’s success in the previous year
• Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 17 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.
• Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We’re empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.

If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!  

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.