Ops Engineer

We are currently looking for an Ops Engineer for a long project for a large international bank in Amsterdam area.

Scope

Are you an Ops Engineer that is both technically skilled and communicative? Are you able to work closely with a magnitude of stakeholders and will you contribute to continuously improve application while making sure they are secured in a professional way? Then we are looking for you!

Main tasks

 You do whatever is necessary to ensure that your production applications are available to the customers (both internal and external).
 You can join the conversation during development as a SME on security, performance and monitoring.
 You keep improving your monitoring and alerting as if it were your second nature.
 You make sure that your security mindset is shared among the Customer Journey Exports and Dev Engineers with whom you work very close with.
 You are always busy with working smarter and automating more.
 You will need to take the complete end-to-end chain into account.
 You have a solid technical background that enables you to think along during the complete software development lifecycle.
 Your analytical skills ensure that you solve problems quickly.
You will be working according to the ‘’Spotify agile’’ model, which means that you will be working in a team with business and IT together. You will not only serve the Dutch but also the Belgian markets.

Competencies

 A bachelor degree (with IT in curriculum).
 Experience with ITIL processes.
 Thorough knowledge of Linux stacks (RedHat) including corresponding monitoring solutions.
 Experience with databases (e.g. Oracle, Cassandra).
 Experience with application server (e.g. Tomcat, WebSphere) en other middleware (e.g. XFB, TWSd, Messaging).
 Experience with multiple testing techniques, especially in the fields of performance and resilience.
 Experience with automating deployments and monitoring. For example using Nolio, Jenkins, Gitlab and the Elastic Stack.
 Good understanding of network architecture (load balancers, proxies, firewalls, etc.).
 Good understanding of API’s and corresponding techniques (HTTPS, JSON).
 Skilled in a minimum of one scripting language (Bash). You prefer scripting over repetitive work. Therefore you are skilled in a scripting language (i.e. Bash) or comfortable using Ansible (YAML).
 You understand that supporting our 24x7 applications includes participating in (paid) occasional standby shifts.

Does this role spark your interest? Then please provide me with your most recent resume and contact details, so that we can discuss this vacancy more detailed by phone!