Azure Platform Engineer

Join Rabobank as a Cloud Engineer

As a Cloud Engineer for the Azure Platform Team in Engineering Platforms, which is part of Tribe Tech4Engineering, you participate in shaping the future of our global Cloud transformation. You make a difference and have a real impact by driving the adoption of Cloud-Native Application Designs within Rabobank. As a team, you work together with the DevOps teams to bring services to our customers faster, more reliably, and more securely. Join our team at Rabobank, where innovation meets diversity in cloud computing. We’re a tight-knit group of professionals dedicated to aiding other teams on their journey to the cloud and offering a secure Azure Platform. We’re looking for an Azure Cloud Platform Engineer who’s not just technically proficient but also a perfect fit for our team culture.

About Team Titan

**Team Titan** is one of the three Azure teams, focusing mainly on Compute services and various Azure services such as:

• Azure Container Apps
• Azure Container Instance
• Azure Container Registry
• Azure Function App
• Azure Web App
• Event Grid and Event Hub
• Azure API Management
• And more...

Our mission is to provide a robust and secure Azure platform that empowers DevOps teams to innovate and deliver value efficiently. We work closely with these teams to lower their cognitive load and support their cloud journey.

Your Role as a Cloud Platform Engineer

As a Cloud Platform Engineer within the Area Engineering Platforms, you can help bring about this change by:

• Developing, managing, and maintaining the Azure Platform for Rabobank
• Building various security automation, designing solutions, and making a real difference at Rabobank by contributing to the long-term goals of Engineering Platforms
• Undertaking diverse responsibilities and initiatives, with full autonomy
• Growing your knowledge of the complete Azure Cloud technology stack with a focus on storage
• Driving automation by utilizing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
• Ensuring that all services delivered are compliant according to the bank
• Driving innovation with new technology
• Helping DevOps teams in their journey to the Cloud
• Delivering support and direction to DevOps teams
• Sharing knowledge to increase competence within the DevOps teams
• Participating in a standby shift that will rotate within the team

How Do We Work Within Our Team

Our team collaborates with an agile mindset, working alongside other (Azure) teams within the Area Engineering Platforms to enhance the speed, agility, and security of all Cloud infrastructure and automation processes. We offer a secure and user-friendly approach for DevOps teams within the bank to utilize the Azure Cloud. Additionally, we maintain weekly communication with the DevOps teams to comprehend their challenges and exchange knowledge. Rabobank is in the process of transitioning to a Cloud-first environment, which presents a multitude of exciting challenges and opportunities.

What Do You Bring to the Table

We are looking for new colleagues who can demonstrate their expertise as (Azure) Platform Cloud Engineers, with a strong interest in (Azure) Cloud Engineering, technology, innovation, and self-improvement at a medior to senior level. People and Cultural Skills and Capabilities:

• Good communication skills
• English proficiency in speech and writing
• True team player with a goal-driven mindset
• Eager to keep learning new technologies
• Agile and DevOps mindset
• Not afraid to engage in experimentation
• Able to adopt new technology and introduce new ideas
• Able to initiate and maintain cross-functional collaboration
• Contribute to psychological safety within the team and be respectful
• Work towards constructive conflict resolution
• Participate in a learning culture
• Ensure the platform is easy to use, thus encouraging adoption across the organization

Process Skills and Capabilities:

• CI/CD: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Agile Way of Working (Scrum & Kanban)
• Minimum of 2 years in the DevOps way of working
• Experience in incident response handling and processing
• Experience in risk and mitigation processes
• Ability to eliminate technical debt
• Experience with security processes and compliance governance
• Experience with On-demand Self-service
• Ability to measure services and monitoring
• Experience with loosely coupled architecture
• Embrace the everything as code principle

Technical Skills and Capabilities:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in a relevant direction (B ICT)
• Substantive knowledge of (Azure) Cloud technologies & Cloud design patterns
• Minimum of 2 Azure certifications (Solutions Architect and/or Azure Administrator and/or DevOps Engineer and/or Azure Security Technologies)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Azure development
• Experience with at least one of the following programming/scripting languages: Bash and/or PowerShell
• Experience with Azure DevOps practices, Git, and Yaml pipelines
• CI/CD: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery configuration, usage, and maintainability
• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or Azure Bicep
• Knowledge and experience of Cloud-native development
• Knowledge and experience with commonly used Azure resources like Azure Web App, SQL server, Azure Function App, App registration
• Knowledge and experience of Azure Active Directory
• Knowledge and experience of Azure policies
• Knowledge of the Titan services mentioned above

It is a Plus if You Also Have:

• Knowledge of Self-service APIs, event-driven architecture, and serverless architecture.
• Knowledge and experience with Azure Networking concepts
• Knowledge of container technologies like Docker, Azure Container Apps
• Knowledge about programming to build a backend cloud application

What Do We Offer?

We would love to help you achieve this by focusing firmly on your growth, development, and investing in an environment where you keep learning every day. We give you the space to innovate and initiate. In this way, we offer you numerous opportunities to grow and help you exceed your expectations, to do the right thing exceptionally well, and to therefore grow as a professional. In addition, with us (on the basis of a 36-or 40 hour working week), you can also expect:

• Based on your experience: up to max € 90.000,00 incl all benefits (40 hours) depending on your experience.
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• An extra budget of 11% of your gross salary to be used at your discretion.
• A budget of € 750- to set up your home working space and a monthly home working allowance of up to € 40-
• A personal development budget of € 1,400-
• A combination of working from home and at the office
• 100% reimbursement of commuting costs if you travel by public transport
• A pension scheme to which you contribute 3.5%
• 151.2 hours holiday per year + 1 Diversity Day per year
• Relocation belongs to the possibilities

Growing a Better World Together

You are already aware that Rabobank is a financial services provider for millions of customers in 40 countries. But did you know that we aim to contribute to real change with our “Growing a better world together” mission? We do so in countless ways, such as:

• Together with Nature & Environment, we’re working to increase awareness among consumers of how to reduce food waste.
• As part of a project with Humanitas, we are helping people who are experiencing financial difficulties to get their household finances in order.
• Together with Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland (the Dutch Council for Refugees), we are helping 1,500 refugees find a suitable job.