Infrastructure Engineer at Garda Capital Partners (Geneva, Switzerland)
Garda Capital Partners· Geneva, Switzerland·
Job description
Garda Capital Partners (Garda) is a multi-billion dollar alternative investment firm with over 22 years of experience deploying relative value strategies across fixed income markets for institutional investors. We hire, grow, and mentor great talent and remain steadfast in our commitment to building a culture that helps them succeed. Garda is more than a workplace. We are built on trust, integrity, and a shared vision for how we work together, the enduring relationships we build, and the consistency of our results. Garda's primary offices are located in Wayzata, New York City, West Palm Beach, Geneva, Zug, Copenhagen, Singapore, and Scottsdale.
Garda is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own Platform Engineering & Automation. This hands-on role builds and operates shared deployment capabilities for infrastructure and selected applications, while providing advanced infrastructure engineering and production support.
The engineer develops reusable deployment pipelines, infrastructure templates, and self-service workflows that help teams provision environments and release changes consistently — working with architecture, application owners, and regional teams to improve platform reliability and resolve complex infrastructure problems.
Position Responsibilities
Escalation & Infrastructure Support
- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and recurring operational problems
- Troubleshoot across Windows/Linux systems, identity, networking, cloud, virtualization, storage, and backup
- Lead root-cause analysis and convert recurring incidents into engineering work or documented standards
- Participate in major changes, recovery events, and follow-the-sun handoffs
Platform Engineering & Deployment Automation
- Build automation using PowerShell, Python, and APIs with production-quality testing and error handling
- Own reusable infrastructure-as-code and configuration templates (Terraform, Ansible)
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications, including validation, environment promotion, health checks, and rollback
- Apply Git, peer review, automated tests, change controls, and secure secrets handling
Observability, Reliability & Standards
- Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and automated health checks
- Tune operational signals to reduce noise and improve detection/recovery
- Maintain reusable provisioning workflows and self-service capabilities
- Own platform reliability and lifecycle improvements with service owners
Technical Leadership
- Mentor engineers and workplace technology staff in troubleshooting and automation practices
- Review infrastructure code and pipeline designs with architecture, Security, and application owners
- Maintain runbooks, diagrams, and onboarding guidance
- Maintain a prioritized platform backlog with the architect and regional leads
Qualifications & Desired Skills
- 4–6 years of hands-on infrastructure operations experience across several domains
- Degree in IT, computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
- Advanced PowerShell or Python automation experience, including API integration
- Practical experience with infrastructure as code or configuration management
- Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines (Git, testing, secure deployment, rollback)
- Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and incident-response skills
- Working knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability concepts
- Ability to document work, mentor others, and collaborate across a distributed team
Preference for experience with:
- AWS, container platforms, modern cloud operating patterns (Azure a plus)
- Experience delivering reusable provisioning workflows for infrastructure and business applications
- Familiarity with ITSM, change, incident, and problem-management practices
- Experience in financial services or another performance-sensitive environment
- Track record of solving complex infrastructure problems and building shared capabilities other teams can use independently
- Strong track record of maintaining high standards for reliability, documentation, and maintainability
- Experience remaining effective under pressure, with a history of mentoring and knowledge-sharing within teams
Why work at Garda Capital Partners
- Culture: Emphasizes collaboration, empowerment, continuous learning, and accountability. Leaders are approachable, and employees are encouraged to take initiative. Values include rigor, fairness, transparency, and excellence.
- Work environment: Global offices with a hybrid/office presence (roles listed in Geneva, Zug, New York, and Wayzata). The firm combines the agility of an entrepreneurial firm with the discipline of an established institution.
- Career growth: Focus on long-term career development; employees are given “lived experiences” and opportunities to shape outcomes. Open roles include Quantitative Researcher, Software Engineer (AI Tooling), Data Engineer, AI Intern, and Investment Analyst.
- Notable perks: Flat structure, cross-departmental collaboration, and a strong emphasis on integrity and work-life balance (the firm explicitly avoids short-termism).