Container Platform DevOps Engineer

Utrecht Croeselaan 18 Voltijd Gross monthly salary between € 4.931 and € 7.043 (scale 09).

• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

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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).

Design, build, and operate a modern Azure AKS container platform, collaborating across IT and business to deliver secure, reliable financial services as a Container Platform DevOps Engineer, including upgrades, automation, fault resolution, and continuous innovation.

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'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/AKS, which will be the standard of all containerized application in AKS. 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.

• Built and operated an enterprise Azure AKS container platform with secure networking, CI/CD integration for multiple teams.

• Improved reliability and stability by leading Kubernetes upgrades, automating incident resolution, and implementing proactive fault prevention.

• Enabled development teams through self-service deployments, enhanced monitoring, and clear platform standards and best practices.

• 36 hours per week

• The role involves working in a new DevOps team to build and operate 1 enterprise Azure AKS container platform serving multiple engineering teams across the bank

• More than 49,000 Rabobank colleagues around the world

• 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)

• Build and operate a standardized Azure AKS container platform, including networking, security, CI/CD integration, and observability.

• Maintain and improve platform reliability through Kubernetes upgrades, fault prevention, incident resolution, and automation.

• Enable and support DevOps teams with self-service capabilities, platform guidance, and ongoing innovation to reduce cognitive load.

The role also includes driving platform standardization, improving security and compliance, introducing new cloud-native capabilities, and continuously reducing developer cognitive load by simplifying platform usage, automation, and documentation across engineering teams.

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'.

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.

• 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 willing to experiment, while adhering to established Rabobank security guidelines and risk controls
• 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.
• Ensure 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, ACS, Docker, and Kubernetes (K8S).
• Advanced Azure experience, covering storage, networking, IAM, serverless, and related services.
• Proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• In-depth understanding of Git, CI/CD pipelines, ArgoCD, and DevOps practices.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Certifications in Azure or Kubernetes are preferred but not required.