DevOps / Cloud Platform Engineer
Helvo
About the role
About
We are looking for a DevOps / Cloud Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and evolve the cloud infrastructure behind our digital financial platform.
Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure, you will work hands-on with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, and Cilium, contributing to scalable, secure, and automated platform foundations. You will collaborate with a tech team of around 15 people across Switzerland and Finland, supporting production systems and improving reliability, deployment workflows, and developer experience.
This role is ideal for a mid to senior engineer with strong cloud-native experience, a pragmatic engineering mindset, and the ability to take ownership of infrastructure topics from design to operation. Experience in a regulated environment such as FinTech or banking is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Terraform, ensuring modular, reusable, and well-structured infrastructure-as-code.
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, enabling fast, reliable, and automated deployments across environments.
- Develop and operate Kubernetes-based workloads, contributing to cluster configuration, deployment patterns, and scalability.
- Engineer reliable and secure platform components, including networking, IAM, and service integrations across cloud providers.
- Contribute to the evolution of infrastructure architecture, focusing on scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Implement automated validation, testing, and deployment strategies for infrastructure and applications.
- Participate in incident analysis and contribute to engineering solutions that improve system reliability and reduce failure points.
- Collaborate closely with backend and product engineers to ensure systems are production-ready by design.
- Continuously improve developer experience through tooling, automation, and streamlined workflows.
- Document infrastructure patterns, modules, and engineering standards to support team scalability.
Qualifications
- First professional experience or strong academic background in DevOps, cloud or software engineering
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and IaC principles
- Familiarity with GitLab CI and pipeline design
- Good understanding of AWS and/or Azure core services
- Comfortable in Linux and scripting (Bash, Python)
- Good communication skills in English and French
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