What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.  Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Asset & Wealth Management Division

Across Asset and Wealth Management (AWM), Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world reach their financial goals.

The Private Wealth management (PWM) business within Asset & Wealth Management division provides comprehensive Investment Management services and advice across a full range of asset classes for very high net worth individuals. PWM leverages a global technology platform offering, an integrated suite of tools, and applications to service clients. This platform helps realize a client's goals and objectives, develops, and implements an integrated wealth management plan and delivers first-class client service.

Across AWM, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and leading-edge technology, data, and design.

Private Wealth Management Swiss Bank Team:

As a DevOps engineer within the division in Switzerland, your role will be to assist as part of a global team in the development and operation of the PWM production platform for the region, including data security platforms. The firm continuously strives to meet or exceed the industry’s information security best practices and applies controls to protect our clients and the firm - your contributions will be an essential part of this mission. The security and integrity of our clients' data are imperative to the firm - we employ a defence-in-depth approach to protecting our information from a variety of threats, both internal and external, through a wide range of initiatives. Such initiatives include but are not limited to; encryption of sensitive information, performing operations and searches on encrypted data, fine-grained entitlements and analytics of sensitive data consumption.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Support business-critical front-office applications for the region
• Support business-critical data encryption solutions and make these available to applications via services (i.e. Data Protection as a Service), along with building automation to assist in their usage and integration
• Build and support authentication solutions for our data protection services which support the concept of authorization delegation
• Build partnerships with our clients, which include many development teams across the division
• Support entitlement frameworks which control access to individual attributes based on roles, entity states and physical locations
• Ensure all solutions align to modern Continuous Delivery standards, High Availability and Rapid Scaling, Swiss Data Secrecy
• Engage in production troubleshooting and engineer product improvements to eliminate manual investigation where possible
• Conduct code reviews to ensure logic is consistent with Swiss data secrecy requirements

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Prior industry experience with DevOps, Reliability Engineering, Application Programming and Systems Administration
• Experience working on Linux servers
• Experience with automation and configuration management tooling and frameworks
• Familiarity with Java Runtime Environment and Java deployments
• Familiarity with RDBMS like Sybase, DB2, MSSQL.
• Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Python, JavaScript or similar
• Ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
• Strong communication and documentation skills - both verbally and in writing to effectively interact with multiple people and teams
• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
• Understanding of modern application design, best practices and infrastructure
• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose performance, security, and process interactions in complex distributed systems
• Ability to understand and effectively debug both new and existing software
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively and possess interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with colleagues across diverse technology teams

Preferred Qualifications

 

• Experience monitoring, measuring, auditing and supporting software
• Experience designing, installing and operating security products and infrastructures
• Background in IT security, including authentication, authorization, encryption and secure coding practices
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP.