Azure Platform Engineering Infrastructure Lead (80-100%)
Switzerland
Zurich
Sygnum is a global digital asset banking group, founded on Swiss and Singapore heritage. We empower professional and institutional investors, banks, corporates and DLT foundations to invest in digital assets with complete trust. Our team enables this through our institutional-grade security, expert personal service and portfolio of regulated digital asset banking, asset management, tokenisation and B2B services.
In Switzerland, Sygnum holds a banking licence and has CMS and Major Payment Institution Licences in Singapore. The group is also regulated in the established global financial hubs of Abu Dhabi and Luxembourg.
We believe that the future has heritage. Our crypto-native team of banking, investment and digital asset technology professionals are building a trusted gateway between the traditional and digital asset economies that we call Future Finance. To learn more about how Sygnum’s mission and values are shaping this digital asset ecosystem, please visit sygnum.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
A key pillar of our success are the Sygnum values that define and unite us a team. We proudly call them our SYGN values:
S stands for the importance we hold in Seeking and seizing opportunities, and the way we take personal ownership for delivering results for our clients;
Y represents the way we say Yes to maintaining the highest level of integrity and fairness in everything we do. Sygnumers always display confidence without attitude;
G reminds us to always Grow and win together. We only succeed by supporting each other and challenging ourselves, and our team-mates, to reach for new heights;
N is here for Nose for value because we are always looking to focus on what matters most to our clients, partners and team.
Sygnum has one of the most diverse teams in the industry. Diversity plays a central role in keeping our work culture open, our teams productive and energised, and our solutions at the forefront of the industry. In the spirit of our SYGN value to “grow and win together”, we fully embrace an equal opportunity mindset in the way we onboard, develop and promote our team members.
Our Azure Cloud SRE team ensures the reliability, scalability, and performance of our digital banking infrastructure, aiming for a robust financial future and pioneering cloud operations standards.
Your main responsibilities: • Opportunity to own and shape infrastructure standards for our integrated currency and digital asset banking platforms at the frontier of digital asset banking. • Leadership in defining, implementing, and monitoring infrastructure governance frameworks for digital asset custody, trading, and banking. • Hands-on development of infrastructure patterns bridging traditional banking and blockchain. • Strategic input into our multi-cloud and key management architecture. • Chance to establish industry-leading infrastructure practices in an emerging sector. • Serve as a key liaison and coordinator between the SRE team and cross-functional teams, including engineering, IT operations, and other clouds. • Drive the effective implementation and operationalization of infrastructure strategies and standards across the organization.
You are a highly skilled infrastructure professional with a strong background in overseeing cloud architecture for infrastructure, applications, and cloud technologies. You are eager to join an innovative organization at the forefront of the digital asset economy. You thrive on solving complex infrastructure challenges in regulated environments and are passionate about establishing new standards for the emerging digital asset banking sector. You combine deep technical expertise with an understanding of regulatory requirements for financial institutions.
Bachelor’s degree in information technology or equivalent.
5+ years of IT experience with at least 5 years in infrastructure architecture roles or equivalent.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills in English.
Strong ability to collaborate with and influence diverse teams, serving as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives and driving alignment across teams.
Proven expertise covering at least 75% of:
Cloud infrastructure architecture and landing zone concepts for Azure
Knowledge in architecting, building and securely maintaining infrastructure running on Azure in an immutable (declarative) fashion
Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) frameworks
Developing infrastructure standards in regulated environments
Infrastructure architecture reviews for critical business systems
Financial regulations (e.g. FINMA) and banking infrastructure requirements
Application, infrastructure, and networking best practices
API standards and gateway architecture
Kubernetes and microservices infrastructure patterns
Nice to Have:
Team leadership or management experience
Azure Data platforms infrastructure
German language proficiency
Joining Sygnum means being part of a dynamic, global team that is building a trusted gateway between the traditional and digital asset economies. Working at Sygnum, you will experience our fast-paced, exciting work environment that embraces meritocracy and collaboration and open communication. Alongside our ambitious long-term mission, we also come together for reaching important milestones and annual crypto-industry anniversaries like Bitcoin Pizza Day, and regularly celebrate together at themed company events as part of our journey to shape Future Finance.
Sygnum offers a comprehensive package of benefits for all team members. They include: • Attractive combination of market salaries and entrepreneurial incentive scheme • Flexible/Work at home policies • Professional development via Mentoring and Buddy programs • One-month fully paid sabbatical after five years of continuous employment
If you are passionate about the potential of blockchain to share Future Finance and your profile is a good fit for this position, please send us your CV today!
