DevOps Engineer API Platform

Join the Kong Platform & Infra team as we transform how 8000+ internal engineers at Rabobank discover, adopt, and integrate with our mission-critical integration platforms (API Gateway/Kong, Event Streaming/Kafka, Message Queues, File Transfer). We are seeking a skilled and proactive engineer to manage and enhance our Kong API Gateway platform deployed across hybrid environments—AKS, EKS and on-premises OpenShift clusters. This role involves designing, deploying, maintaining, and optimizing the API gateway infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and security of API traffic across the enterprise.

This is what we offer you

• A thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• A balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Decide for yourself the amount of your personal pension contribution.

Practical Examples

• Work with enterprise-scale integration challenges while having the autonomy to redesign and improve systems.
• Balance cutting-edge technology with pragmatic solutions that work in a large financial institution.
• Join a team that values both technical excellence and genuine collaboration.
• Work with experienced engineers while having space to challenge and improve how things are done.

Your responsibilities

• Design and implement Kong API Gateway solutions in AKS, EKS and OpenShift environments.
• Manage the lifecycle of Kong components including Kong Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and plugins.
• Maintain and develop scripts/pipelines for managing our infrastructure in both cloud and on-premise, configurations, and gathering metrics.
• Monitor and troubleshoot API traffic, latency, and gateway performance issues.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Application teams to define API standards, policies, and governance.
• Ensure secure API exposure through authentication, rate limiting, logging, and auditing.
• Maintain and upgrade Kong Gateway versions and associated infrastructure components.
• Document architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.

You'll become part of the "silent fabric of all data exchange between applications at Rabobank" - enabling engineers to innovate without integration complexity.

Together we achieve more

We're curious to know what you'll add to our Kong Platform & Infra team.

Your work directly improves the daily experience of every engineer at Rabobank. When you remove friction from integration processes, you multiply productivity across the entire organization.

The Kong Platform & Infra team values both technical excellence and genuine collaboration. We work with experienced multinational engineers while having space to challenge and improve how things are done. Our culture is built on empathy first, outcome over output, first-principles thinking, pragmatic excellence, and continuous learning.

You & your talent

• 3+ years of Dev Ops/Platform Engineer role.
• Good experience with API Gateway, preferably Kong API Gateway.
• Experience with Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), Azure DevOps Pipelines and Network.
• Experience with OpenShift and container deployments.
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, Terraform and AzureCLI scripts.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with API security best practices (OAuth2, mTLS, JWT).
• Strong troubleshooting skills in containerized environments.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, or Grafana.
• Technical communication: explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Outcome-focused: balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery of user value.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with financial services technology landscapes and regulatory requirements.
• Understanding of enterprise governance, security, and compliance in large organizations.
• Familiarity with legacy system integration and gradual modernization approaches.
• Experience in platform development.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.