Software operations Engineer

Your work makes payments happen, 24*7, easy and fast, anywhere, online, in the shop and on the road. State of the art.

You and your job
You work on the Payments Service Provider of Rabobank: Rabo Smart Pay. Payments online, in the shop downtown, or in the mall. So you work on a key element in the payments ecosystem, you make payments happen. The payments world is highly dynamic and continuously evolving. We are highly innovative, together with fellow leading innovators in the market, to drive state of the art services. Merchants need instant insight in their business at any moment, and be able to adapt their payments services quickly.

As an Cloud Operations Engineer you ensure  the quality and continuity of our services to merchants/shops so their customers can make their payments, fast and effortless. And you provide the best platform for the continuous, fast, safe and secure development of our services.

You work in a DevOps team, you create and run your software together. At the same time you are part of the  operations  crew responsible for the 24*7 operations (standby is part of the job).
You shape the future of operations, fully in the cloud.

Practical Examples

• Designing and providing well-architected standardized cloud platform services.
• Ensure flawless processing by pro-active participation in the development.
• Always be in control with state of the art monitoring and alerting.
• Ensure our systems are robust and secure by design

Facts & Figures

• 36 or 40  hours per week
• Serving more than 100.000 merchants and processing millions of transactions
• 43,822 Rabobank colleagues around the world

Top 3 responsibilities

• Design and develop our cloud platform in line with architecture principles, improving day by day
• Maintain the application, keeping it fit for tomorrow, next month, next year and beyond.
• Be the best DevOps team member your fellow team members could wish for. Share, care, guide and support each other. Grow as engineering professional.
  

In an ever changing payments world there is never a dull moment. This complex environment demands full commitment to the services we provide and the team that makes it happen. We work agile/scrum, delivering and improving sprint after sprint. There are challenges that require you to rise to the occasion, there is satisfaction of the job well done and there is the celebration with the team.

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. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at Rabo Smart Pay.

 ‘At Rabo Smart Pay we strive to create the best possible merchant experience. Being part of a team of dedicated professionals that directly contributes to this goal is inspiring, challenging and rewarding. At the same time it is also a lot of fun.’

Lead Software Engineer.

The 50  people in Rabo Smart Pay are committed to deliver the most delightful payments services to our merchants. Working together is in our dna; as 1 entrepreneurial and purposeful team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,5000,000 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.

You and your talent

• 8+ years or more working experience as a operations engineer in complex IT landscapes, on the MS Azure platform and/or AWS, but preferably also on premise (Linux/Websphere/oracle);
• Experience in or affinity with IT operations in the financial sector, the payment sector in particular;
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in e.g. computer sciences;
• Fluent in English, preferably in Dutch as well;
• Take full responsibility for the structural quality of the cloud infrastructures with very high performance, availability and security requirements.
• Take ownership from design to production (pro-active DevOps mindset)
• Proven track record as innovator and leader of major improvements of (cloud) platform services.
• As a senior team member you coach colleagues and your informal leadership makes the team better.
• Agile mindset and experience in working agile/scrum
• An engineer in heart, mind and soul. A master of your game, thoroughly enjoying it, eager to learn, and happy to share;
• Very much aware of the developments in your profession and field of expertise, continuously seeking how to bring them to effective use in the organization.
  
• Key skills:
  • Highly experienced in Azure Cloud ,- Portal, - Monitoring and Azure DevOps.
  • Creation of well-architected standardized platform services enabling agile development in a devops mindset.
  • Experienced in Linux, Apache HTTP and Websphere version 8.5.5 (or higher)
  • Experienced in Deployment automation and orchestration (Azure Devops)
  • Experienced in Security; Certificate Mngt, Azure Networking (VPN, NSG’s)
  • Experienced in Network infrastructure (e.g. SSL-connectivity, TCP/IP, Firewalls, DNS)
  • Experienced with dbases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
  • Familiar with monitoring tools like ELK stack, Splunk, Azure Log Analytics (nice to have knowledge on APM tools like Dynatrace, Elastic APM)
  • Familiar with automating cloud Infra via Templates and scripting, preferably Terraform or any other Infrastructure as Code is a pre.
  • Basic coding skills using scripting languages on both Linux and Windows (e.g. Bash, Powershell)
  • Understanding the concepts and objectives of DevOps and CI/CD.
  • Setting up effective CI/CD pipelines.
  • Great analytical and problem solving skills
  • Very good communication and cooperation skills
  • Results matter, you get things done whatever happens.

This is what we offer you

• gross monthly salary up to € 90k (scale 9) depending on experience, knowledge and education. This is including all benefits and based on a 36 hour work week
• Flexible working hours.
• 100% reimbursement of the costs of home/work travel if you travel by public transport!
• An annual personal development budget of € 1.400,-.
• A very attractive pension scheme, to which your own contribution is only 5,5%.

This is a selection of the terms of employment for a Operations Engineer based on a 36-hour working week. You can find all terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment.

You and the job application process

• Application is open until the vacancy for this role is filled. Responses will be handled in accordance with our vacancy management policy.
• Isabelle Brust , IT Recruiter, would be happy to answer any questions about the application procedure via  Isabelle.brust@rbaobnk.nl
• The application process includes obligatory screening. Based on the screening procedures in place at Rabobank, we assess whether new staff matches the high standards we pursue to work at Rabobank.
• The application process for this vacancy may include an individual assessment.
• Everyone is different, and it is exactly those differences that help us become an even better bank. That's why we want to know who you really are!
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq.
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