Cloud Engineer Azure Platform

As a Azure Platform Engineer, you can help bring about this change by:

• Development, management, and maintenance of the Azure Platform for the whole organization;
• Building various security automations, designing solutions, and making a real difference at our firm by contributing to the long-term goals of Engineering Platforms;
• Undertaking diverse responsibilities and initiatives, full autonomy is key;
• Growing your knowledge on the complete Azure Cloud technology stack (network, security, functions, containers, data, etc.) but with the main focus on data services;
• Drive automation by utilizing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code;
• Drive innovation topics like Open AI technology;

You get the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology every day while advising the DevOps teams on how to incorporate these technologies in their solutions. 

• Guiding DevOps teams in implementing applications that are compliant with the security requirements of the organization;
• Helping DevOps teams in their journey to the Cloud;
• Helping DevOps teams lower their cognitive load;
• Helping DevOps teams by delivering support and direction;
• By sharing knowledge increase competence within the DevOps teams;
• Standby shift that will rotate within the team.

As a Cloud Engineer for the Azure Platform team you participate in shaping the future of our global Cloud transformation you make a difference and real impact by driving adoption of Cloud Native Application Designs within the banking industry. As a team you work together with the DevOps teams. By doing so, we can bring services to our customers in a faster, more reliable, and secure way.

Join our team, where innovation meets diversity in the realm of cloud computing. We're a tight-knit group of professionals dedicated to aiding other teams on their journey to the cloud, offering a secure Azure Platform. We're on the lookout for an Azure Platform Engineer who's not just technically proficient but also a perfect fit for our unique team culture.

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 easily accelerate in delivering value for their stakeholders. The Rabobank is transitioning to a Cloud first environment, providing a lot of fun challenges and opportunities.

What your future colleagues from the team say:

A: Sr. Cloud Engineer: ‘As an Engineering Platforms Cloud Engineer you get the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology every day while advising the DevOps teams on how to incorporate these technologies in their solutions. You get the shared responsibility of maintaining the Engineering Platforms Azure services catalogue while personally experiencing the freedom to learn and innovate while contributing to the long-term mission of Engineering Platforms.’

B: Cloud Engineer: ‘The Oxford dictionary defines a team as "a group of people who work together at a particular job". That is us but we are also so much more: we are serious with a touch of jollity when it comes to work, fun and geeky while sharing lunch or coffee, and super keen when it comes to learning about technology. Our catchphrase is "can I help?" - be that a consumer of our platform or one of our own team members who needs a hand. If you are enthusiastic about cloud and this sounds like your dream team, we hope to meet you for an interview!’

What you bring to the table:

We are looking for new colleagues who can prove they are (Azure) Cloud Engineers with an insatiable curiosity in (Azure) Cloud Engineering, technology, innovation, and self-development on a medior/senior level. We believe 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:

You will be employed by YER and seconded to our client. We offer:

• Good employee benefits
• Challenging assignments
• Excellent guidance from your consultant and YER's back office
• Development opportunities, including the YER Talent Development Programme with a personal coach
• Intensive support for international candidates (including Dutch lessons, tax-return and accommodation assistance)
• Cooperative and results and relationship-driven
• Friendly atmosphere and open culture
• Community/network with other technology professionals from a variety of multinationals
• Events and master classes with interesting speakers and attractive companies

People and cultural skills and capabilities

• You have good communication skills;
• English proficiency in speech and writing;
• You are a true team player with a goal driven mindset;
• Eager to keep learning new technologies;
• You have an Agile and DevOps mindset;
• You are not afraid to engage in experimentation;
• Able to adopt new technology and introduce new ideas;
• You are able to initiate and maintain cross-functional collaboration;
• You are able to Contribute to a physiological safety within the team and be respectful;
• You always work towards a constructive conflict resolution;
• You are able to participate in a learning culture;

 Communication & interaction

• Able to lower the Cognitive Load by Minimizing the mental effort required by DevOps teams to understand the platform’s capabilities;
• Ensure that the platform is easy to use, thus encouraging adoption across the organization;
• Focussing on complex, specialized tasks that require deep expertise, such as algorithm development or data science;
• Encourages the sharing of expertise and resources among (your) teams..;
• You can provide services to another in a self-service fashion, reducing the need for constant communication;
• You can provide documentation to help teams understand how to use the services;
• You can coach, mentor, and educate teams and engineers becoming 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;
• You have experience in incident response handling and processing;
• Experience in risk and mitigation processes;
• You are able to eliminate technical debt;
• You have experience with security processes and compliance governance;
• You have experience with On demand Self service;
• You are able to measure services and monitoring;
• Experience with loosely coupled architecture;
• You embrace the everything as code principal.

Your technical skills and capabilities

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in a relevant direction (B ICT);
• Substantive knowledge when it comes to (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 Bicep;
• Knowledge and experience of Cloud native development;
• Knowledge and experience with commonly used Azure data services like Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL;
• Knowledge and experience of Azure Active Directory;
• Knowledge and experience of Azure policies;
• Skills to troubleshoot and fix issues in a running cloud application (highly preferred).

It is a plus if you also have:

• Knowledge of Machine Learning, Datawarehouse and ETL development;
• Knowledge of container technologies (AKS, ACI, ACR);
• Knowledge and experience with programming to build a backend cloud application.