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Description Vacancy : Container Platform DevOps Engineer

As a Container Platform DevOps Engineer in the area Engineering Platforms, part of the Tribe Tech4Engineering, you will participate in shaping the future of our Container Platform. You will be part of a (new) team that builds a new Container Platform on top of Azure (AKS).
You and your job You work in a challenging International environment, with the mission to enable the bank to provide relevant financial services to our clients, so that we can 'Grow a Better World Together'. You are part of a multidisciplinary squad that realizes the digital ambitions for Rabobank within the Tech4Engineering domain, while closely collaborating with business and IT stakeholders.
As part of a DevOps team you will be developing, maintaining and support the best Container platform environment, performing version upgrades, undertaking fault prevention and resolution, roadmap implementations and specialist product advice. IT never stands still and with new technologies and integrations being introduced, innovation and research will be part of the role. As a DevOps Engineer you make an impact on the way our customers perceive the services we deliver at Rabobank. You make it possible to give our customers a 9+ experience.
Tech4Engineering Tech4Engineering's mission is to minimize the cognitive load of our engineers throughout the bank. You contribute by implementing and operationalizing the container platform on Azure, which will be the standard of all containerized application in Azure.
The Tribe Tech4Engineering (as part of Engineering & Enterprise Tech) consists of approximately 500 FTE.
It is necessary, among other things, to have a strong focus on self-service, enabling our consuming DevOps teams to operate with full autonomy. This is complex to realize in times of reorganization and pressure to get the environment operational. The impact of this change affects processes, team structure and the way in which employees within the tribe perform their work.

Characteristics for this context that are relevant to the assignment: 

• A complex network of applications, with complex communication flows; 

• A culture in which rolling up your sleeves is highly valued, craftsmanship is central and changes are not embraced in advance; 

• A very high degree of complexity (Container & Cloud & Security & DevOps and Rabobank knowledge)

You and your talent 

• 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. 

• Strong analytical skills and know how to separate main and side issues; 

• Strong expertise in containerization, particularly with AKS, Azure Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes (K8s). 

• Advanced Azure experience, covering Azure Compute, Azure Storage, networking, IAM, Azure Functions, and related services. 

• Proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). 

• In-depth understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. 

• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages. 

• Certifications in Azure or Kubernetes are preferred but not required.

Together we achieve more than alone We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. We are curious about what you can bring to our team within Tech4Engineering. With colleagues in this environment we are working on improving our complex Container platform and secure processes and we are helping the bank to implement its goal ‘contribute to secure world’.
Working together following agile principals we strive to be an effective, results-driven, problem-solving team. We take time to help each other with a pragmatic approach within a multi-cultural team of professionals. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries with over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners, we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.