Junior Dev Ops Engineer - Early Career Program

Kick‑start your career in the front line of real‑time data innovation. Build meaningful solutions while growing into the engineer you want to become.

Junior Dev Ops Engineer - Early Career Program

You & Your Role

During this Early Career Program at Rabobank, you will work on your career by becoming part of Team Godzilla, the engineering squad behind Rabobank’s Event Streaming Platform. You’ll help internal teams use real‑time data — from notifying customers about balance updates to enabling instant fraud‑detection capabilities. You will onboard users to our Kafka platform, troubleshoot technical issues, and contribute to a scalable, future‑proof event‑driven architecture.

After completing the program, you will continue your journey as a Junior DevOps Engineer, with opportunities to grow into areas like event streaming, automation, or cloud engineering. Alongside your role, you’ll follow a structured learning program that includes technical courses, professional development, and weekly collaboration days with fellow Young Professionals.

In Short

• Onboarding new teams to our Event Streaming Platform
• Building automation tooling, such as Python scripts or CI/CD pipelines
• Participating in quarterly innovation sprints
• Contributing to new event‑driven features and platform improvements

Your Development as a Young Professional

Within this program, you will have the opportunity to get to know yourself, the field, and Rabobank. The program lasts a total of 18 months. You will start the program in a junior position within one team, participate in (online) workshops and training modules with other juniors, and quickly gain practical experience. Together with others, there is room for creativity and initiative to organize events, training sessions, and knowledge‑sharing sessions. This way, we continuously improve the program and ourselves! You will easily build a large and valuable network within the bank.

Your development in our Early Career Program

In the Rabobank Early Career Program IT, you will work on your technical and personal development for 18 months. This includes technical training based on the work you do and your personal interests. You will also work on relevant skills, and various themes such as sustainability, as well as learning how a bank operates. In addition to this, you will choose one of the tracks that suits you. In these tracks, you will focus more on the content of your role. You will meet fellow starters from different departments weekly, and on other days you will work within your own team.

Learning from each other

Development is our top priority. Because the best way to learn is by doing, through mistakes and successes. At Rabobank we offer you the right balance between freedom and supervision. To develop talents you never thought you possessed. To specialize in a professional field or explore the things you're good at and enjoy doing. During your program you can count on us for excellent supervision. You'll work with experienced colleagues and have lots of contact with young professionals.

About Rabobank

Rabobank is a Dutch bank serving more than 9.5 million customers across 38 countries.

You & Your Talent

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, Informatics or System and Network Engineering
• Basic experience in at least one of: Python, Java or .NET
• Understanding of software engineering principles and REST APIs
• Interest in event streaming technologies (Kafka experience is a plus)
• You take ownership and show initiative
• You communicate clearly and ask questions when needed
• You are curious, eager to learn and collaborative

Sacha.Veenhof@Rabobank.nl