Network Engineer (Hybrid & Cloud Networking – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Join Avaloq’s Network team in Cloud & Infrastructure Operations. You will be tasked with ensuring secure, reliable connectivity and network operations. This includes managing connections and networks between and within our data centres, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), our customers, and other related services. You will combine operational discipline with hands-on engineering and automation. This will help improve the current setup in a regulated environment. Operational discipline includes stability, handling incidents, and hardening.

Your key tasks

• Run and operate hybrid connectivity spanning enterprise LAN/WAN, data centres and OCI—ensuring high availability, predictable performance, and robust security controls.
• Continuously improve and streamline the network platform. Standardise designs. Remove complexity. Improve endurance. Reduce operational toil. Use automation tools like Terraform and GitOps to achieve these goals.
• Handle network operations. Monitor the network. Respond to incidents. Troubleshoot issues. Manage problems. Drive root-cause analysis. Take preventive actions.
• Collaborate with the Architecture and Sales teams to obtain scalable, secure network designs for implementation and improvement roadmaps.
• Keep operational documents high-quality. This includes runbooks, standards, and diagrams. Make sure services are ready by following good change practices, testing methods, and giving clear handovers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in network engineering. This experience must include working in complex enterprise environments.
• Skills in routing and switching, WAN and Internet connectivity, firewalls, and load balancing.
• A solid insight into hybrid-cloud networking is required. This includes experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• An Infrastructure-as-Code mindset. Useful experience with Terraform, whether by creating or using modules, and be familiar with Git for change control and collaboration.
• Solid fundamentals: TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, VLANs, subnetting, VPN/IPsec; deep troubleshooting skills across layers (L2–L7).
• Operational excellence while prioritising security: monitoring, managing incidents and problems, and creating clear documentation. 
• Experience in enhancing endurance in regulated or high-availability environments, like financial services.

It would be a real bonus if you have (max. 3 bullet points)

• You have certifications such as CCNP, OCI Networking (Associate or Professional), CheckPoint CCSE, FortiGate FCP, and Terraform Associate.
• Experience with SD-WAN

How you work

• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and collaborate well in cross-functional teams.
• You are curious and pragmatic: eager to learn, but focused on delivering secure, maintainable solutions.
• You stay structured under tension and can prioritise appropriately during incidents and delivery peaks.
• Languages: fluent English; Italian and/or German are a plus.
• Shift work and/or on-call duty apply depending on service needs.
• Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland
• For regulatory reasons, Swiss residency is required

If you enjoy operating mission-critical networks and modernising them through automation and cloud adoption (OCI), we’d like to hear from you.

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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