DevOps Engineer in Alliance Cloud CSI squad

About the role

We're the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value - across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we're proud to support the global economy. We're unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value - a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We're always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.

Responsibilities

• Operational Excellence
• Deploy changes, patches, and releases in test and production environments (core responsibility).
• Prepare, present, test and execute changes in Production - requiring on‑site presence 3 days per week .
• Perform occasional Production changes outside business hours ( ± once per month ).
• Log, investigate and resolve/escalate operational issues occurring in test and production systems.
• Ensure high availability, data integrity, and security through appropriate controls and validation.
• Systems & Platform Management
• Maintain and operate a mission‑critical application deployed across multiple data centers, based on micro‑services and synchronous replication.
• Contribute to resiliency and capacity improvements in collaboration with other engineering teams.
• DevOps & Continuous Delivery
• Design, maintain, and evolve our DevOps pipeline using technologies including Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, Ansible, ArgoCD , and others.
• Participate in code and configuration reviews to enforce best practices, resilience, and consistency.
• Promote automation, shift‑left principles, and reliability‑focused engineering.
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
• Participate in change planning and risk mitigation activities.
• Stay up to date on DevOps tools, SRE practices, modern deployment techniques, and industry trends.
• Suggest improvements to increase efficiency, quality, and operational robustness
• Professional Qualifications
• Profile & Soft Skills
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Autonomous, proactive, and comfortable driving improvements and managing change.
• Customer‑oriented with strong attention to quality and detail.
• Team‑player with an open, solution‑oriented mindset.
• Able to work effectively independently and collaboratively.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) with strong communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience with agile methodologies is an asset.
• Technical skills
• Required
• Strong hands‑on experience with Linux systems (RedHat preferred).
• Experience with continuous delivery technologies: Jenkins, Git, Maven, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes, Kibana, OpenShift, Ansible, ArgoCD .
• Experience with databases ( Oracle, H2 ) and data modelling.
• Understanding of SSL/TLS, HTTP/S, XML (schema, XSLT) .
• Knowledge of distributed frameworks ( Kafka, Zookeeper ).
• Familiarity with scripting and automation (Python).
• Comfortable collaborating with Java development teams (reading logs, understanding stack traces, deployment artifacts, etc.).

Requirements

• Experience with secrets management , especially HashiCorp Vault .
• Experience with SRE practices, observability, or reliability engineering.
• Why Join SWIFT?
• Work on high-impact systems used worldwide in the financial industry.
• Join a global organization , collaborating with experts across three continents.
• Grow your expertise with access to SWIFT's global platform and learning ecosystem.
• Contribute to meaningful projects focused on security, reliability, and innovation.
• Work in an environment that values autonomy, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Ready to make an impact?
• If you are a DevOps Engineer looking for a role where you can grow your skills, influence production quality, and contribute to mission‑critical systems, we'd love to hear from you.
• Join us and help shape the future of secure financial communication.

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