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Azure Platform Engineer - Kronos

As a Cloud Engineer for the Azure (Kronos) team in the area Engineering Platforms which is part of the Tribe Tech4Engineering you participate in shaping the future of our global Cloud transformation you make a difference and real impact by driving adoption of Cloud Native Application Designs within Rabobank. As a team you work together with the DevOps teams. By doing so, we can bring services to our customers in a faster, more reliable, and secure way.

Join our team at Rabobank, where innovation meets diversity in the realm of cloud computing. We're a tight-knit group of professionals dedicated to aiding other teams on their journey to the cloud, offering a secure Azure Platform. We're on the lookout for an Azure Cloud Platform Engineer who's not just technically proficient but also a perfect fit for our unique team culture.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer within the Area Engineering Platforms, you can help bring about this change by:
• Development, management and maintenance of the Azure Platform for Rabobank
• Building various security automations, designing solutions, and making a real difference at Rabobank by contributing to the long-term goals of Engineering Platforms
• Undertaking diverse responsibilities and initiatives, full autonomy is key
• Growing your knowledge on the complete Azure Cloud technology stack. (network, security, functions, containers, data, etc.) But with the main focus on storage.
• Drive automation by utilizing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
• Making sure that all services delivered are compliant according to the bank
• Drive innovation topics like Open AI technology
• Helping DevOps teams in their journey to the Cloud
• Helping DevOps teams lower their cognitive load
• Helping DevOps teams by delivering support and direction
• By sharing knowledge increase competence within the DevOps teams
• Standby shift that will rotate within the team

How do we work within our team
Working together with an agile mindset is the way we work. Our team joins forces with other (Azure) teams within the Area Engineering Platforms to make all Cloud infrastructure and automation processes faster, more agile, and more secure. We provide a secure and easy way for DevOps teams within the bank to leverage the Azure Cloud. In addition, we have weekly contact with the DevOps teams to understand their challenges and share knowledge. We lower their cognitive load so teams can easily accelerate in delivering value for their stakeholders. The Rabobank is transitioning to a Cloud first environment, providing a lot of fun challenges and opportunities.

What your future colleagues from team Kronos say:
Rene, Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer: ‘As an Engineering Platforms Cloud Engineer you get the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology every day while advising the DevOps teams on how to incorporate these technologies in their solutions. You get the shared responsibility of maintaining the Engineering Platforms Azure services catalogue while personally experiencing the freedom to learn and innovate while contributing to the long-term mission of Engineering Platforms.’
Monika, Cloud Platform Engineer: The Oxford dictionary defines a team as "a group of people who work together at a particular job". That is us but we are also so much more: we are serious with a touch of jolliness when it comes to work, fun and geeky while sharing lunch or coffee, and super keen when it comes to learning about technology. Our catchphrase is "can I help?" - be that a consumer of our platform or one of our own team members who needs a hand. If you are enthusiastic about cloud and this sounds like your dream team, we hope to meet you for an interview!

What do you bring to the table:
We are looking for new colleagues which can proof they are (azure) Platform Cloud Engineers with an insatiable curiosity in (Azure) Cloud Engineering, technology, innovation and self-development on a medior/senior level. We believe that if you are a good Platform Cloud Engineer It is logical that customer orientation, team collaboration, enthusiasm and an unstoppable hunger for new knowledge are indispensable for this function. In addition, it is important that you recognise the skills and capabilities on the checklist below:

People and cultural skills and capabilities
- You have good communication skills
- English proficiency in speech and writing
- You are a true team player with a goal driven mindset
- Eager to keep learning new technologies
- You have an Agile and DevOps mindset
- You are not afraid to engage in experimentation
- Able to adopt new technology and introduce new ideas
- You are able to initiate and maintain cross-functional collaboration
- You are able to Contribute to a phycological safety within the team and be respectful
- You always work towards a constructive conflict resolution
- You are able to participate in a learning culture
- Able to lower the Cognitive Load by Minimizing the mental effort required by DevOps teams to understand the platform’s capabilities.
- Insure that the platform is easy to use, thus encouraging adoption across the organization.
- Focussing on complex, specialized tasks that require deep expertise, such as algorithm development or data science.
- Encourages the sharing of expertise and resources among (your) teams..
- You can provide services to another in a self-service fashion, reducing the need for constant communication.
- You can provide documentation to help teams understand how to use the services.
- You are able to coach, mentor, and educate teams and engineers becoming more autonomous.

Process skills and capabilities
- CI/CD: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
- Minimum of 2 years of experience with Agile Way of Working (Scrum & Kanban)
- Minimum of 2 years in the DevOps way of working
- You have experience in incident response handling and processing
- Experience in risk and mitigation processes
- You are able to eliminate technical debt
- You have experience with security processes and compliance governance
- You have experience with On demand Self service
- You are able to measure services and monitoring
- Experience with loosely coupled architecture
- You embrace the everything as code principal

Your technical skills and capabilities
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in a relevant direction (B ICT)
- Substantive knowledge when it comes to (Azure) Cloud technologies & Cloud design patterns
- Minimum of 2 Azure certifications (Solutions Architect and/or Azure Administrator and/or DevOps Engineer and/or Azure Security Technologies)
- Minimum of 2 years of experience with Azure development
- Experience with at least one of the following programming/ scripting languages: Bash and/or PowerShell,
- Experience with Azure DevOps practices, Git and Yaml pipelines
- CI/CD: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery configuration, usage and maintainability
- Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or Azure Bicep
- Knowledge and experience of Cloud native development
- Knowledge and experience with commonly used Azure resources like Azure Data Factory, Cosmos DB, SQL server, PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge and experience of Azure Active Directory
- Knowledge and experience of Azure policies
- Knowledge and experience with commonly used Azure resources like Azure Web Apps
- Skills to troubleshoot and fix issues in a running cloud application (highly preferred)
- Azure Function Apps, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure API Management,
- Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Bastion, Azure Bot Service
- Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Registry, Azure Event Grid/Hub and Azure

It is a plus if you also have:
- Knowledge of Machine Learning, Datawarehouse and ETL development
- Knowledge and experience with Azure Networking concepts like VNET, Subnets, NSGs and Private Endpoints
- Knowledge of container technologies (AKS, ACI, ACR)
- Knowledge and experience with programming to build a backend cloud application