Cloud Engineer / Platform Engineer

About Alpian

We'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 team

We'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.

Purpose

We'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 doing

• Operate and improve our Internal Developer Platform
• Build automation and processes that help developers deliver safe and reliable software fast
• Apply a security-first approach to everything we build (in line with FINMA regulatory requirements)
• Contribute to architecture decisions and own strategic pieces of work
• Improve SRE practices around observability, alerting, and the release process
• Take part in the on-call rotation (compensated)
• Leverage AI tools like Claude Code and Gemini to automate and accelerate our engineering work
• Keep the platform lean and maintain a high level of automation

Our stack

• Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud Run, GCS), Kafka
• Modern Kubernetes ecosystem: ArgoCD, Helm, and many Operators
• Grafana, Prometheus
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, and GitOps
• GitHub, GitHub Actions
• AI tools: Claude Code, Gemini

What you'll need

• Strong experience with at least one of the hyperscalers: Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure
• Strong experience running workloads on Kubernetes
• Terraform proficiency
• Clean code in Bash, Python, or Go
• Good system design skills
• Enthusiasm for AI and a habit of using AI tools in your daily engineering work
• Fluent in French and English

Nice to have

• Experience supporting developer teams and driving cross-team initiatives
• Comfortable sharing ideas, giving feedback, and explaining your decisions
• Enjoy mentoring dev teams on platform engineering and SRE, and bringing new ideas to the table
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with Grafana and PromQL
• Networking knowledge
• REST API design principles
• Experience with GitOps and automated deployment and promotion flows across environments

Why join Alpian

• A chance to build the future of banking from scratch
• A startup mindset backed by a banking license
• A flat, collaborative team of smart, driven people
• Powerful, modern equipment: you'll work on a MacBook Pro
• Based 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.