Azure Platform Engineer

at  Rabobank

As a Cloud Engineer for the Azure Platform Team (Team Titan) in the area of Engineering Platforms, which is part of the Tribe Tech4Engineering, you participate in shaping the future of our global Cloud transformation. You make a difference and real impact by driving the adoption of Cloud-Native Application Designs within Rabobank. As a team, you work together with the DevOps teams. By doing so, we can 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 on the lookout for an Azure Cloud Platform Engineer who’s not just technically proficient but also a perfect fit for our unique team culture.
About Team Titan:

Team Titan is one of the three Azure teams and focuses mainly on Compute services and the following Azure services:

• Azure Container Apps
• Azure Container Instance
• Azure Container Registry
• Azure Function App
• Azure Webapp
• 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.

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 (network, security, functions, containers, data, etc.) 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
• Helping DevOps teams lower their cognitive load
• 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:
Working together with an agile mindset is the way we work. Our team joins forces with other (Azure) teams within the Area Engineering Platforms to make all Cloud infrastructure and automation processes faster, more agile, and more secure. We provide a secure and easy way for DevOps teams within the bank to leverage the Azure Cloud. In addition, we have weekly contact with the DevOps teams to understand their challenges and share knowledge. We lower their cognitive load so teams can quickly and easily accelerate delivering value for their stakeholders. Rabobank is transitioning to a Cloud-first environment, which is providing a lot of fun challenges and opportunities.
What do you bring to the table:
We are looking for new colleagues who can prove they are (Azure) Platform Cloud Engineers with an insatiable curiosity in (Azure) Cloud Engineering, technology, innovation, and self-development on a medior/senior level. We believe that if you are a good Platform Cloud Engineer, it is logical that customer orientation, team collaboration, enthusiasm, and an unstoppable hunger for new knowledge are indispensable for this function. In addition, it is important that you recognize the skills and capabilities on the checklist below:

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
• Lower the Cognitive Load by minimizing the mental effort required by DevOps teams to understand the platform’s capabilities
• Ensure the platform is easy to use, thus encouraging adoption across the organization
• Focus on complex, specialized tasks that require deep expertise, such as algorithm development or data science
• Encourage the sharing of expertise and resources among teams
• Provide services to another in a self-service fashion, reducing the need for constant communication
• Provide documentation to help teams understand how to use the services
• Coach, mentor, and educate teams and engineers to become more autonomous

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 and experience with commonly used Azure resources like Azure Web Apps
• Skills to troubleshoot and fix issues in a running cloud application (highly preferred)
• Azure Function Apps, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure API Management
• Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Bastion, Azure Bot Service
• Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Registry, Azure Event Grid/Hub

It is a plus if you also have:

• Knowledge of Self-service API’s, event-driven architecture, and serverless architecture.
• Knowledge and experience with Azure Networking concepts like VNET, Subnets, NSGs, and Private Endpoints

• Knowledge of container technologies like Docker, Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Instance, Azure Container RegistryKnowledge and experience with programming to build a backend cloud application

• 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:

• A third of all the food we purchase is thrown away. 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.

Please refer the Job description for details