DevOps Engineer

Every day, threat actors target financial institutions with increasingly sophisticated attacks. Our mission is to stay ahead of them by building intelligent automation that helps incident response team with rapid detect and respond. Therefore, we're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join the team developing our Security Incident Response Automation Platform, the technology that powers our CISO Cyber Defense Security Operations Center (SOC). Do you want to help security analysts stop attacks faster, reduce risk, and protect the systems, data, and financial well-being of millions of customers? Then we're looking for you.

Good to know: this is more than building software. It's an opportunity to work on technology with a real-world impact, collaborating with engineers, cybersecurity experts, and incident responders to make the digital world safer. If you're excited by challenging engineering problems and motivated by a mission larger than writing code, we'd love to meet you.

Your job

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, and continuously evolve the platform infrastructure architecture, ensuring alignment with our long-term vision for security incident response automation.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, secure, and automated software delivery across the platform.
• Enhance observability across platform services by improving logging, monitoring, tracing, and performance insights.
• Proactively monitor platform health, reliability, and operational performance, driving continuous improvements and operational excellence.
• Embed security into every layer of the platform, implementing best practices and controls that help protect critical banking services and customer data.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, security analysts, and platform specialists to deliver resilient and impactful solutions.
• Share knowledge, mentor team members, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Take ownership of technical challenges from design through production, helping build a platform that enables our defenders to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.

Your work will directly contribute to our mission of protecting customers, defending critical financial infrastructure, and empowering security teams to outpace increasingly sophisticated threat actors.

Working environment

You’ll join CISO Cyber Defense, a highly skilled and diverse cybersecurity organization dedicated to protecting the bank, its customers, and the broader financial ecosystem. Working alongside experts in cyber defense, threat detection, incident response, engineering, and security strategy, you'll help tackle some of the industry's most complex security challenges. We operate in an agile and collaborative environment where ideas matter more than hierarchy, teams are empowered to take ownership, and innovation is encouraged at every level.

Our mission goes beyond technology. Every day, we help protect millions of customers, safeguard critical financial services, and strengthen trust in the digital world. You'll have the opportunity to work on mission-critical solutions that make a real impact, while continuously developing your skills alongside talented colleagues who are passionate about engineering and cybersecurity.

Your profile

We're looking for a passionate software engineer who loves building great technology, experimenting with new ideas, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible. You are naturally curious, eager to explore emerging technologies, and excited to apply innovations such as cloud-native platforms, AI, machine learning, and automation to solve real-world problems. You combine a strong engineering foundation with a hands-on mindset, enjoy turning concepts into production-ready solutions, and thrive in an environment that encourages learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement. Beyond technical excellence, you enjoy collaborating with others, sharing knowledge, and contributing to a mission that helps protect customers and critical financial services from evolving cyber threats.

We are looking for someone with following skills:

• 5 years of experience in DevOps engineering positions
• Good understanding of async event driven microservice design patterns and corresponding infrastructure architectures with strong practical experience of implementing them in Azure
• Excellent knowledge and experience in Azure Kubernetes
• Practical experience with managing Azure IaaC with Terraform, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, DevOps automation, Monitoring
• Proficiency in Python, NodeJS, PowerShell, bash

We are offering

We believe it is important to be a good employer. Joining us means stepping into a role with impact, supported by excellent employment conditions that foster your job satisfaction, development, and wellbeing.

In addition, we offer:

• An attractive gross monthly salary based on a 36-hour work week, including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget.
• An excellent pension scheme, ensuring that you are well prepared for the future.
• Flexibility in working: working from home is possible in consultation with your team and depending on your role. We will provide an ergonomic home office setup for you.
• Plenty of room for relaxation with five weeks of vacation per year, supplemented by two mandatory days off. You can also purchase up to four additional weeks of vacation annually.
• Five “Banking for better days”: extra days off that you can use for personal development or volunteer work.
• Personal development is key: you receive a development budget of €1,000 per year, which can accumulate up to €3,000.
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands for both business and private use.