The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Development Platforms and Integrations team within the Information Technology and Services unit.
This role is based in Basel, however, thanks to our status as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities and located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members.
This job is available as three years fixed-term.
The deadline for application is on Thursday 27 August 2026 end of the day.
Purpose of the job:
Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performing enterprise platforms that power the Bank's data infrastructure. The Senior Platform Engineer ensures the reliability, modernization, and operational excellence of critical platforms such as Cloudera, Elastic Stack. This role drives automation, ensures compliance with security and governance standards, and collaborates with diverse teams to deliver innovative, future-ready technology solutions aligned with business objectives.
By joining the ITS team, you will:
Design and maintain secure, scalable platforms that underpin the Bank’s data infrastructure.
Lead modernization and automation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
Collaborate with diverse teams to deliver innovative, future-ready technology solutions.
Act as a technical authority across core platforms, ensuring alignment with business needs and industry best practices.
Principal accountabilities:
Platform Architecture, Administration and Engineering: Design, deploy and manage platforms like Cloudera (Hadoop ecosystem, Kafka, Apache NiFi), Elastic Stack, and Dataiku (DSS), ensuring security, resilience, and performance. Drive platform modernization efforts, including hybrid cloud integration, containerization, and emerging technology adoption.
Operational Excellence: Lead continuous improvement initiatives with a focus on automation, standardisation, and lifecycle management. Maintain operational runbooks and guardrails while ensuring adherence to SLAs in critical production environments.
Integration and Automation: Automate provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Puppet. Develop CI/CD pipelines and integrate platforms with AD/Azure AD for authentication and access control.
Monitoring and Observability: Implement monitoring solutions like Cloudera Manager, Elastic Monitoring, and OpenTelemetry to track platform health and performance. Centralize logs for analysis and troubleshooting through Elastic Stack.
Collaboration and Leadership: Act as a senior advisor to technical teams, providing engineering direction and resolving complex issues. Align platform capabilities with business objectives and mentor teams to foster continuous learning and growth.
Risk and Security: Ensure compliance with audit and security standards, embed secure-by-design practices into platform architecture, and enforce encryption and vulnerability management practices.
Qualifications, skills, and experience:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or equivalent professional experience, with relevant industry certifications (e.g., Cloudera Administrator, Elastic Certified Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator) highly valued.
Proven experience with Cloudera (Base, Streaming, Data Flow, Data Services), Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats), and Dataiku DSS, focusing on cluster management, performance tuning, and workflow automation.
Proficient in integrating platforms with Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD, and skilled in automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet) and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub.
Expertise in monitoring tools (e.g., Cloudera Manager, Elastic Monitoring, OpenTelemetry) and centralized log management through Elastic Stack.
Advanced knowledge of Linux (RHEL, CentOS), including scripting, backup, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.
Hands-on experience with big data platforms (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Hadoop), machine learning workflows, hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), and container management (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
Who we are:
Internationalism is at the core of our identity and the best representation of this is our workforce. With employees from over 66 countries and offices in nine locations, the BIS is a global organisation with a truly international workforce. By joining us, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We are committed to equal opportunities at the BIS and aim to build a workforce that reflects our global membership. We strive to attract the best talent and foster an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including those with a breadth of professional experience. You can discover more about our inclusive working environment here.
What the BIS offers:
We want your time at BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- Proven experience with Cloudera (Base, Streaming, Data Flow, Data Services)
- Proven experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats)
- Proven experience with Dataiku DSS
- Experience integrating platforms with Active Directory and Azure AD
- Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Cloudera Manager, Elastic Monitoring, OpenTelemetry)
- Advanced knowledge of Linux (RHEL, CentOS), including scripting, backup, disaster recovery, and performance optimization
- Hands-on experience with big data platforms (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning workflows
- Experience with hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container management (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Relevant industry certifications (Cloudera Administrator, Elastic Certified Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator)
What We Do
At the Bank for International Settlements, we occupy a distinct position among international financial institutions. As a hub for central bankers and financial regulators, the BIS blends varied perspectives into a greater collective understanding of the world's economy. Through our work, we contribute to monetary and financial stability, which is essential for sustained economic growth. Our wide-ranging activities include economic and policy research, statistical analysis, and banking. Our staff have expertise in economics, finance, banking, risk management, international law, and statistics, among other fields. Such diversity helps to create the right environment for knowledge-sharing and collaboration. Our headquarters are in Basel, Switzerland, with representative offices in Hong Kong SAR and Mexico City. Visit us: https://www.bis.org/careers Follow us on: - Twitter https://twitter.com/BIS_org - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bankforintlsettlements/ - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bisbribiz
