Lead DevOps Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

ABOUT US

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.

Lead DevOps Platform Engineer

**Swift is unable to sponsor an employment authorization for this position now or in the future.

What to expect

Swift is looking for a Lead DevOps Platform Engineer to spearhead the transformation of our infrastructure and configuration automation capabilities, with a strong focus on Ansible-based automation and orchestration.

In this role, you will work in the heart of our central DevOps Tooling Organization and play a pivotal role in delivering secure, scalable, and self-service automation frameworks for infrastructure, platforms, and application teams. You will drive zero-touch provisioning, configuration management, and operational excellence across environments while ensuring strong governance and compliance.

As a senior member of the team, you will help define automation standards, shape platform strategy, and act as a trusted advisor to internal customers. You will combine hands-on technical expertise with architecture leadership, coaching, and customer engagement to maximize the value delivered by our enterprise automation platform.

With a strong focus on automation-first mindset, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and secure software delivery, join us on our ground-breaking journey and bring your senior-level expertise to drive excellence.

In this role you will:

• Design and implement enterprise-grade Ansible automation frameworks for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational tasks, as well as zero-touch automation strategies for infrastructure lifecycle (provisioning, patching, configuration, decommissioning)
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, and reusable automation patterns
• Administer, maintain, and evolve the enterprise Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and operational excellence
• Integrate Ansible automation into CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for consistent and auditable deployments
• Collaborate with platform, security, and application teams to standardize infrastructure automation approaches
• Define and promote automation standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices for Ansible playbook, role, and collection development
• Coach and mentor development and operations teams on automation design patterns, infrastructure-as-code principles, security best practices, and maintainable automation development
• Review and provide guidance on automation solutions to ensure consistency, quality, security, and adherence to enterprise standards
• Implement secure automation practices, including secrets management, RBAC, credential governance, and audit trail generation
• Automate compliance controls, validation checks, and policy enforcement within automation workflows
• Design and maintain automation observability and metrics dashboards (execution success rate, drift detection, compliance posture, and platform adoption)
• Design and implement Software Supply Chain Security capabilities, including Software Composition Analysis (SCA), dependency governance, artifact integrity validation, and vulnerability management practices across the software delivery lifecycle
• Contribute to the definition and adoption of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) capabilities to improve software transparency, traceability, compliance, and risk management
• Act as an end-to-end Solution Architect for strategic platform engineering and automation initiatives, translating business, security, compliance, and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Serve as a trusted advisor to internal customers by conducting technical consultations, solution reviews, onboarding sessions, and architecture workshops
• Drive developer and operator adoption of automation frameworks through self-service capabilities, documentation, training, and enablement activities
• Investigate and resolve complex infrastructure, platform, and automation-related support requests
• Propose and implement case avoidance initiatives by eliminating manual operational activities through automation
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to evolve automation tooling strategy and roadmap
• Champion solutions to complex challenges, applying your senior-level problem-solving skills to optimize infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, and DevOps practices

What will make you successful:

We are seeking professionals with:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (MUST)
• 10 years of progressive DevOps Platform Engineering including at least 2 years as a lead (MUST)
• 5+ years of expertise in Ansible automation -playbooks, roles, collections, and enterprise-scale usage. Including strong experience with Ansible Automation Platform / AWX / Automation Controller (MUST)
• Experience integrating Ansible with CI/CD tools and Git-based workflows (MUST)
• Experience administering and operating enterprise Ansible platforms, including RBAC, execution environments, credential management, governance, upgrades, and lifecycle management (MUST)
• Proven experience establishing automation standards, performing code reviews, and coaching engineering teams on secure and maintainable automation practices (MUST)
• Mastery of RHEL and OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms (MUST)
• Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code and configuration management principles (MUST)
• Strong proficiency in Git and branching strategies (MUST)
• Experience with secrets management and secure automation patterns (MUST)
• Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead, trusted advisor, or end-to-end solution architect for enterprise automation, platform engineering, or DevSecOps initiatives (MUST)
• Strong stakeholder management, customer engagement, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to partner effectively with engineers, architects, security teams, and senior leadership (MUST)
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python and/or Groovy (MUST)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Helm, ArgoCD, or other GitOps tools (A PLUS)
• Knowledge of observability tools (ELK, metrics, logging pipelines) (A PLUS)
• Substantial experience in enterprise software or infrastructure engineering environments

The estimated salary range for a new hire in this position in Virginia is $121,564.00 USD Annual MINIMUM to $225,762.00 USD Annual MAXIMUM. Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Our compensation packages include a competitive base salary and bonus opportunity for all employee’s contingent on personal and company performance. Our generous benefits program includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance with no premium costs for our employees and their families, and retirement plan plus matching 401k.

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals - like you - with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

We are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact [email protected] or indicate this in your application.

Please note that this mailbox is not monitored for general recruitment enquiries and should only be used for accessibility or accommodation-related requests (for example related to vision, hearing or neurodiversity).

All requests are confidential and will not affect your candidacy.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.