platform engineer in regulated banking

ABN AMRO is a bank operating in capital markets, banking and investment banking. Its Innovation department delivers innovation initiatives in collaboration with client units and functions, focusing on cost savings, revenue growth, capital relief and client satisfaction.

• Design, build, maintain and operate complex Azure platform capabilities and services for Innovation initiatives;
• Act as a subject-matter expert for complex cloud and platform engineering challenges;
• Analyse issues, present solution options and support technical decisions;
• Implement security, risk, compliance and non-functional requirements;
• Improve service availability, performance, observability, supportability and cost-effectiveness;
• Participate in incident and problem management when needed;
• Automate provisioning, deployment, testing and operational tasks through Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines and scripting;
• Coordinate technical dependencies with teams involved in initiatives;
• Communicate progress and constraints clearly;
• Escalate unresolved risks or decisions to the appropriate owner;
• Evaluate emerging technologies through controlled experiments;
• Help industrialise viable outcomes into maintainable production capabilities;
• Take ownership of commitments and production quality;
• Build constructive relationships with developers, architects, security specialists and business stakeholders;
• Translate complex technical topics and trade-offs into clear narratives for technical and non-technical audiences;
• Give and invite feedback, share knowledge and mentor colleagues without formal authority;
• Balance experimentation and pace with controls required in a regulated banking environment;
• Work pragmatically within agreed priorities and raise risks, dependencies and decisions at the right time.

• 5+ Years of relevant experience in platform, cloud, DevOps or infrastructure engineering;
• Substantial hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating Azure infrastructure and containerised workloads in production within complex corporate environments;
• Strong practical experience with AKS and at least one of Azure Container Apps or Azure App Service;
• Solid understanding of identity and access management, cloud networking, private connectivity, DNS, certificates and secrets management;
• Proficiency in writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Bicep and Terraform;
• Proven experience automating development, security and operations through CI/CD solutions, preferably Azure DevOps, with appropriate quality and security controls;
• Good communication skills;
• Nice to have: experience with automated infrastructure, integration and application testing, strong programming skills in Python, Java, TypeScript or an equivalent language, experience designing backend-heavy systems and integrations, relevant industry certifications in Azure, Kubernetes, security or Infrastructure as Code, experience applying security, risk, compliance and non-functional requirements in a regulated environment, experience integrating emerging technologies into an existing enterprise IT landscape.

• An attractive gross monthly salary based on a 36-hour work week, including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget;
• An excellent pension scheme;
• An ergonomic home office setup;
• Five weeks of vacation per year, supplemented by two mandatory days off;
• The option to purchase up to four additional weeks of vacation annually;
• Five “Banking for better days” extra days off for personal development or volunteer work;
• A development budget of €1,000 per year, accumulating up to €3,000;
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands for business and private use;
• Employment conditions and salary scales are governed by the applicable Collective Labour Agreement (CLA);
• Real-time AI use is not permitted during interviews.