Platform Engineer

Looking for a sharp Platform Engineer for our client in Amsterdam! If you're all about Kubernetes/OpenShift, S3, Cassandra, and Elastic Search, then this is your chance to shine.

Our client is seriously stepping up their game, migrating traditional apps to their own container cloud platform and gearing up for a big move to the public cloud. They're all about staying ahead of the curve with the latest tech. Sound like your jam? Want to work with the best and learn from them too? Keep reading!

Your Playground

You'll be diving into the fast-paced world of Payment, where we're rocking a Scrum process with two-week sprints and living the DevOps dream. We're all about delivering top-quality, mission-critical software on time, using agile methods and regular check-ins with stakeholders to keep things smooth and avoid nasty surprises.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to translate business needs into solid deliverables. We're talking scalability, reliability, security, and compliance - covering everything from core infrastructure to those slick cloud-native apps. You'll be a key player in our client's cloud journey and their "digital by default" push.

As part of the Engineering domain, you'll get to geek out with fellow Automation Engineers, sharpening your skills, staying curious, thinking outside the box, questioning everything, and celebrating diversity. We foster an entrepreneurial spirit here, a collaborative environment that thrives on innovation, with technology leading the charge.

Ready to be responsible for systems that power tens of thousands of commercial banking customers? Where investing in automation for provisioning and monitoring is a constant? Want to join a crew of elite Ops engineers tackling one of the most critical internet-facing applications for a major European bank? If you're nodding enthusiastically, this is for you!, As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be the guardian of the availability and reliability of our client's core internet-facing commercial banking systems. The Order Manager platform handles a huge range of Wholesale Banking products, from payments to financial markets and lending services.

• Keep all Order Manager environments humming smoothly through automation and testing.
• Dive deep into database and application performance, suggesting and implementing tuning improvements.
• Elevate our monitoring and alerting game to be proactive, not just reactive.
• Champion privacy and security in everything you do.
• Jump into incident response and take turns with the team on standby duties.
• Cook up suggestions and tools to help development teams slash their lead times., Working conditions: This job role offers a balanced split between operational (run) and project (build) work, with a distribution of 75% operational and 25% project-related tasks. To minimize the impact on business operations, some changes may be scheduled outside of regular business hours.

Do you want this too? Do you aspire to be the best version of yourself? We are delighted to support your development and invest in an environment where continuous learning is encouraged. We provide you with the freedom to innovate and take initiative. By offering numerous growth opportunities, we help you exceed your own expectations and excel in your work, enabling you to grow both personally and professionally.

Moreover, you can expect the following benefits based on a 36 or 40-hour working week:

• An Employee Benefit Budget equivalent to 10% of your monthly income, which you can use according to your preferences. This budget allows you to purchase additional holiday days or make additional contributions to your pension.

We're on the lookout for someone with a solid technical foundation, ideally holding a Master's or Bachelor's degree in IT. You should have at least 10 years of experience under your belt, with a proven history of success in similar roles, ideally within an international setting. If you're already rocking container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or OpenShift, that's a huge plus!

We'd love to see your experience with S3, Cassandra, and Elastic Search. Plus, a strong grasp of continuous integration and delivery using tools like Azure DevOps, Git, and Maven is essential. And hey, if you're a whiz with OSS monitoring tools like Grafana, Kibana, and Prometheus, and know your way around creating dashboards, you'll fit right in. Your experience with automated deployments on both container and non-container platforms using tools like Azure DevOps is also highly valued.

We definitely need your expertise in at least one scripting language (Bash, Unix). We know the tech world can be demanding, so being able to thrive under pressure and being ready for standby duty outside of office hours is key. A basic understanding of Scrum/Kanban and Agile methodologies would be great too.

Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal, are a must. And if you have an affinity for Risk and Compliance, that's a bonus! Ultimately, you'll be a crucial part of our 24x7 production support team.

• Flexible working hours and the possibility of location-independent work, depending on the team's planning.
• 100% reimbursement of commuting costs if you travel using public transportation. If you commute by car or motorcycle, you can opt for a commuting allowance.
• A pension scheme with a contribution rate of only 5% from your side.

Let's get to know each other.