Cloud Architect (m/f/d)

Cloud Platform Engineer

Would you like to shape the cloud platform behind business-critical applications at Generali Switzerland? As part of our platform team, you help evolve CoPa, our enterprise cloud platform on Google Cloud, and create secure, scalable and reliable foundations for our product teams. You work with a modern cloud-native technology stack including Google Cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps and Infrastructure as Code and have the freedom to bring in new ideas and AI-supported engineering practices.

What to expect

• You design and evolve our GKE platform, including architecture, networking, autoscaling, security and capacity planning.
• You develop our GitOps delivery platform with ArgoCD, Helm and Kustomize and enable reliable software delivery.
• You build and operate our Google Cloud foundation as code with Terraform, including IAM, networking and security guardrails.
• You ensure platform reliability through observability, troubleshooting, incident management, root-cause analysis and disaster recovery.
• You continuously improve our CI/CD and software supply chain practices with GitLab CI, container technologies and security scanning.
• You collaborate with Security, Architecture and product teams and support them with technical consulting, design reviews and documentation.
• You promote platform engineering best practices and help us use AI-supported automation where it creates measurable value.

The skills you'll bring

• You have several years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, SRE or DevOps, including at least 3 years operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• You have deep knowledge of Kubernetes and ideally hands-on experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• You have practical experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, Helm and Kustomize as well as Google Cloud infrastructure using Terraform and/or Config Connector.
• You are experienced with GitLab CI/CD, containers, automation and scripting with Python, Go or comparable languages.
• You know how to operate production systems and handle incident management, root-cause analysis and sustainable technical improvements. Experience with Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Apigee, FinOps or AI/LLM-based engineering workflows is an advantage.
• You combine strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an understanding of reliability, security and developer experience. Relevant Google Cloud, CKA or CKS certifications are an advantage.
• You communicate confidently in English; German or French is an advantage.