Cloud Engineer / Platform Engineer in Genève

About AlpianWe're building the next generation of private banking: one that's digital, personalized, and meaningful. Alpian is the first Swiss digital private bank, combining wealth management and everyday banking in a single app. Our mission?Make investing and banking simple, intuitive, and accessible to all.To get there, we're bringing together bold thinkers, pragmatic engineers, and passionate innovators. Sounds like you?About the teamWe're a small team with different backgrounds who get along really well and work closely together. Everyone has a real say in how things are built. We like questioning the way things have always been done and trying new approaches when they make sense. AI is part of how we work every day, but we still want to understand and own the code we write.We're looking for someone curious who wants to keep pushing our platform forward. That means a more stable platform and better tools for our developers, which in turn makes for a better experience for our customers.PurposeWe're looking for a Cloud / Platform Engineer to help us build and scale the banking platform that powers all Alpian workloads, used by thousands of customers. We run a modern cloud infrastructure, managed as code. The team has a high level of agency over design decisions and technical implementation. It supports developers and the business by providing the infrastructure they need to deliver quality software to our customers, at scale and in a secure manner. Automation, reliability, and security are core principles for the team.What you'll be doingOperate and improve our Internal Developer PlatformBuild automation and processes that help developers deliver safe and reliable software fastApply a security-first approach to everything we build (in line with FINMA regulatory requirements)Contribute to architecture decisions and own strategic pieces of workImprove SRE practices around observability, alerting, and the release processTake part in the on-call rotation (compensated)Leverage AI tools like Claude Code and Gemini to automate and accelerate our engineering workKeep the platform lean and maintain a high level of automationOur stackGoogle Cloud (GKE, Cloud Run, GCS), KafkaModern Kubernetes ecosystem: ArgoCD, Helm, and many OperatorsGrafana, PrometheusInfrastructure as code with Terraform, and GitOpsGitHub, GitHub ActionsAI tools: Claude Code, GeminiWhat you'll needStrong experience with at least one of the hyperscalers: Google Cloud, AWS, or AzureStrong experience running workloads on KubernetesTerraform proficiencyClean code in Bash, Python, or GoGood system design skillsEnthusiasm for AI and a habit of using AI tools in your daily engineering workFluent in French and EnglishNice to haveExperience supporting developer teams and driving cross-team initiativesComfortable sharing ideas, giving feedback, and explaining your decisionsEnjoy mentoring dev teams on platform engineering and SRE, and bringing new ideas to the tableExperience with KafkaExperience with Grafana and PromQLNetworking knowledgeREST API design principlesExperience with GitOps and automated deployment and promotion flows across environmentsWhy join AlpianA chance to build the future of banking from scratchA startup mindset backed by a banking licenseA flat, collaborative team of smart, driven peoplePowerful, modern equipment: you'll work on a MacBook ProBased in Geneva (preferred) or Lausanne, with a hybrid setup (2 remote days per week)Ready to help us build the bank of tomorrow? Apply now and let's make it happen. #J-18808-Ljbffr