Platform Engineer IV (101063) in Amsterdam

As an experienced platform engineer you will work in one of our core teams dedicated to delivering high available, high performance  integration platforms. You will enter an energetic environment with multiple teams working to create the banking infrastructure of the future. As part of one of our platform teams you build and maintain an integration platform used by many IT chains to support their business processes. Scalability, high availability and security is our bread-and-butter.

The team, where you will work as a platform engineer, is one of the four similar platform teams within the grid Development Services. In addition to the four platform teams, the department includes teams that provide training, manage standards & guidelines and enable developers. Our platforms are a key part of the stability of the bank as a whole!

Together with your colleagues you will work in a DevOps team responsible for on one of our platforms. The position is multi-faceted, not only do you research and develop new tools, you also configure existing ones, all while keeping a highly critical platform up and running.

Being the senior in the team we expect you to have expert knowledge on many different fields, like integration, security, automation, and infrastructure. With this expertise you can help and guide the team. We also expect you to participate in finding solutions for complex (bank wide) problems and give solid advice where needed.

Together with the team, you are responsible for:

• further development of a secure and stable integration infrastructure.
• maintaining the platform by monitoring it closely.
• analysing and resolving any incidents on this platform with great urgency.
• improving the platform's performance and usability.
• performing risk assessments and threat models to make sure every area of attack is covered.
• collaborating with architects and our customers to improve our infrastructure.

As a candidate we expect you to meet the following criteria:

• You are highly experienced in managing Unix systems, preferably RHEL 7
• You are highly experienced with Ansible.
• You live for automation and have experience with languages like bash, python C++, Ruby or Java.
• You are familiar with security, scalability and reliability patterns and apply them in your day-to-day job.

On a more personal note we want you to:

• You are not afraid to take the lead.

• You have a proactive attitude and you are not afraid to challenge people.
• You are eager to learn by doing and are aware of your areas of growth.
• You have a DevOps mindset.
• And let's not forget that you're part of an international team, so:

And let’s not forget that you’re part of an international team, so:

• You are fluent in  English

We are offering

• The opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally
• The opportunity to pro-actively work on your vitality and fitness
• A competitive salary
• A supplementary benefit budget of 11% on top of the salary, which you can spend on additional fringe benefits
• A personal development budget of EUR 1.000 per year
• An annual public transportation pass or travel budget, depending on the function
• A solid pension plan