Principal DevOps Engineer

The Job in short

Work in our development team and embrace the DevOps role to bring excellence to our software engineering teams. In this role, you will be part of our ‘Business Banking’ department, identifying ways to ensure that our CI/CD processes are stable and mature, as well as supporting and coaching teams across the wider product development organization. In this role, you will be our developers’ go-to DevOps person.   

 

What you’ll do

Backbase uses a scaled Agile product organization and we expect everyone to develop their personal leadership skills continually which ensures quick feedback cycles with our stakeholders.

Automating everything is our aim and CI/CD is our game. As a DevOps Engineer, you play a key role in bringing together software development and IT operations in the delivery of our banking product. As a member of the tribe, you work closely with all disciplines such as Java software developers, Frontend software developers, QA Engineers, Technical Writers and Product Owners to ensure the entire software development life cycle of our omnichannel banking portal product;

Contributing to the quality and delivery of our software products. Your work has a direct impact on the ability to continually innovate our products and improve our way of working;

 

How about you

• You have been a 'Senior/Principal Engineer' for many years now and lead technical initiatives;
• You have a strong desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment where you have a lot of responsibilities and see the immediate impact of your efforts;
• At least 3+ years in a similar role running workloads on public cloud
• You are a leader by example who takes pride in delivering high-quality software according to plan;
• You are flexible, balanced, always striving for improvements;
• You have previously worked with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (k8s) and have experience with Helm Charts;
• You love scripting;
• Advantageous if you have a background or experience in development;
• You have designed and/or delivered mission-critical services (preferably cloud-based services);
• As a plus, you have worked with IaC methodology before, and have some Terraform knowledge;
• Linux/Unix systems;
• You have used build tools such as Maven;
• You love efficiency and find smart ways to automate tasks for you and your team;
• You have experience deploying to application servers such as Tomcat or Websphere in enterprise environments, and working with relational databases.

 

Join our team at Backbase, one of the LinkedIn Top Companies of 2023 in the Netherlands! We're known for our great work environment and providing opportunities for career growth. We’re also committed to fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and growth. As a member of our team, you'll have the chance to work with some of the brightest and most talented people in the industry, as well as help shape the future of digital banking. Come join us and be part of something special.