Medior DevOps Engineer Event Streaming Platform

Pioneer the next generation of banking with Team Godzilla, the squad in charge of event streaming solutions at Rabobank. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of transforming how Rabobank interacts with data in real time. Imagine working on the platform that empowers Rabobank's internal teams to send real-time notifications, such as informing customers when their balance is too low or confirming successful payments, or that enables teams to create enhanced real-time fraud detection capabilities.

Your journey with us will involve connecting applications to Kafka platform, troubleshooting issues, and pioneering new event streaming technologies. You'll dive into platform governance processes, champion event-driven architecture, and enhance user experiences with the event streaming platform. Working in a vibrant, international environment, you'll collaborate with diverse teams internally to shape the digital future of Rabobank.

You & your role

We're looking for a passionate and skilled engineer to join our team! If you're excited about event streaming, building scalable systems, working with modern cloud technologies, and continuously improving through automation and collaboration, we'd love to hear from you.

Top responsibilities

• Ensure our users get onboarded to our Event Streaming Platform.
• Troubleshoot our users' queries.
• Support the team to improve on event streaming guardrail specifications.
• Support automation of pipelines.
• Contribute to the introduction and testing of new innovative event streaming features.
• Develop and deliver tools and automation solutions, including CI/CD Azure pipelines and Azure DevOps extensions.
• Ensure a robust, future-proof Event Streaming landscape.
• Engage in the community as an Event-driven Advocate.
• Participate in rotational 24/7 standby support.

Our tech stack currently includes:

• Apache Kafka Ecosystem
• Programming languages: Java, .NET, Python
• CI/CD: Azure Pipelines and Azure Pipeline extensions
• Testing framework: pytest (Python), Junit (Java), To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a mandatory cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the role. Please pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers. together with your CV, these responses form the basis for our evaluation in this round. Submitting both a CV and answers to the three questions is the minimum requirement to be considered in the selection process. A cover letter is not mandatory but may be submitted optionally.

You may draw on your work experience, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions:

1. Can you describe a recent project where you integrated applications with Apache Kafka using producers, consumers, or stream processing?

2. What experience do you have with building or customizing CI/CD pipelines, particularly in Azure DevOps?

3. How have you applied cloud-native services (e.g., Azure or AWS) to automate or improve event-driven solutions?

Please submit these answers (combined with your motivational letter) in the application section titled 'Add your cover letter (optional)' on the website portal.

• Education: Bachelor's or master's degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• Programming: Proficient in at least one programming language such as Java, .NET, or Python, with experience using Kafka client libraries.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, including producers, consumers, Connect, and stream processing. Knowledge of Avro and Json formats for schema contracts.
• Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud platform (e.g., Azure or AWS).
• CI/CD: Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure Pipelines.
• Pipeline Customization: Experience creating custom extensions for Azure Pipelines.
• Serverless: Familiarity with serverless technologies like AWS Lambda or Azure Functions.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Understanding of identity and access management (Azure Entra ID or AWS IAM), networking (VPC/VNet), and monitoring tools (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor).
• Cloud Services: Experience working with cloud-native services such as Azure DevOps and serverless compute platforms.
• Security: Familiarity with secure coding practices. Knowledge of PKI, authentication and authorization mechanisms (MTLS and OAuth).
• IT Operations: Understanding of IT service management processes.
• Agile Mindset: Experience working in Scrum or Agile teams.

What we value

• Ownership & Initiative: You're proactive, take responsibility, and aren't afraid to speak up.
• Curiosity & Growth: You're eager to improve processes through automation and open to learning new tools and technologies.
• Team Spirit: You're a collaborative team player with a "can-do" attitude.
• Communication: You communicate clearly and effectively and can engage with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Language: Proficiency in English (spoken and written).

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Container Orchestration: Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, especially on platforms like OpenShift.
• Testing: Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Jest, or Pytest.
• API Specifications: Familiarity with AsyncAPI or OpenAPI specifications.

Please note:

This role focuses on Kafka usage and best practices, not on Kafka administration. The candidate should be able to use Kafka effectively and guide others on how to integrate and connect to Kafka from various platforms, following best practices.

We are using Kafka Platform as Service (SAAS) Kafka administration tasks-such as broker installation, cluster maintenance, and configuration-are nice to have but not mandatory for this position.

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,024 and EUR 5,747 (scale 08)0.
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That's why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: 'At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You'll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions. Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself - whoever you are. That's what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about