Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Wyden AG
The ideal candidate would bring:
Must have
- Proven, production-depth AWS expertise across the full infrastructure stack: EKS (Kubernetes), Aurora/RDS, Lambda, VPCs, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, Route 53, and AWS networking services (VPN, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway) — not familiarity, daily hands-on depth
- Senior-level Infrastructure as Code experience: Terraform and Terragrunt in production, writing and maintaining modular, tested, reusable IaC at scale across multiple environments
- CI/CD pipeline design and ownership: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline or equivalent — built pipelines from scratch, not just used them
- Kubernetes operations at depth: EKS cluster design, workload deployment, scaling, upgrade management, and troubleshooting in production multi-tenant environments
- Strong scripting and automation: Python, Bash or equivalent — builds automation tooling, not just scripts individual tasks
- Monitoring and observability stack ownership: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and equivalent — has designed and owned a full observability stack, not just configured dashboards
- Excellent written and spoken English: able to produce clear architecture documentation, conduct technical discussions with a CTO, and communicate infrastructure risk to operational and CS teams
Strong assets
- AWS certification at professional level: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator — strong preference for at least one professional-level certification
- SaaS or multi-tenant platform experience: operational complexity of managing customer-specific environments on shared infrastructure, where one change can impact multiple clients
- Financial services or regulated industry background: familiarity with ISO 27001, SOC 2, or equivalent compliance frameworks from an infrastructure design and evidence perspective
- Migration experience: designed and executed platform migrations at scale, including environment provisioning, data migration tooling, validation frameworks, and cutover management
- AWS networking depth: VPN connectivity, Direct Connect, AWS PrivateLink, Transit Gateway — particularly valuable for Wyden's complex single-tenant customer integrations
- Experience mentoring or technically leading junior engineers: setting standards, conducting code review, and building team capability without becoming a bottleneck
- Database operations at depth: Aurora/RDS design, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and upgrade execution for production financial-grade databases
- DevSecOps experience: security scanning in pipelines, compliance automation, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault), and infrastructure security hardening
The right mindset
- Architecture thinking: you design systems that scale and stay maintainable, not just solutions that work today
- Automation-first: your instinct is always to eliminate the manual step, not to do it faster
- Builder of team capability: you write documentation, set standards, and build systems so others can operate independently — you are not the bottleneck
- Reliability-focused: you think in terms of SLOs, failure modes, blast radius, and recovery time — not just delivery
- Calm and systematic under pressure: production incidents are solved methodically, with clear communication, not heroics
- Collaborative across functions: you work comfortably with a CTO on architecture, with a Head of Run on operational governance, and with CS teams on customer impact — adapting your communication register appropriately
About the role
The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is the AWS architecture authority for Wyden's Run function — the most senior technical individual contributor in production operations. This role sits within Customer Success & Operations, reporting directly to the Head of Run, and is the engineering backbone on which every customer environment, deployment, and operational system depends.
This is not a pure operational support role and it is not a management role. It is a senior technical leadership position: you own the infrastructure architecture, you set the DevOps standards, and you build the systems that allow the broader Run team to operate with confidence. You will also recruit, onboard, and technically lead a junior SRE — defining what good looks like and building toward genuine team capability.
Zurich is the preferred location. The Senior SRE will work in close daily proximity to the CTO and Head of Customer Success — involved in architectural reviews, compliance discussions, and operational governance decisions at a level that benefits significantly from being in the room. Remote candidates based in Poland will be considered for exceptional profiles.
The deep AWS and DevOps execution that was previously concentrated in a single interim contractor is now formally owned by this role. Wyden's customer base is growing toward 20+ live environments. The infrastructure must scale with it — reliably, automatically.
What Wyden offers
- An opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of the digital assets industry.
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Flexible / remote working policies
- Rapid growth of responsibility for high performers in a dynamic, scale-up environment
- An open and dynamic work environment where everyone is valued
- Become part of a global team of professionals with a diverse range of expertise covering banking, trading, software and systems development, and more.