IT Platform Engineer Innovation

Details

As an IT Platform Engineer within the Innovation department, you operate at the highest level of engineering maturity. You will design, build, govern and maintain highly complex, bank-wide solutions, enabling experimentation and translating innovation into scalable, secure and compliant production systems. You work in a multidisciplinary environment alongside Innovation Managers, senior engineers, architects, and business stakeholders and act as a technical authority within your domain.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly complex, bank-wide platforms and services — you build it, you run it
• Define and own the technical roadmap for platform engineering, ensuring alignment across teams and initiatives
• Act as the technical lead and authority for complex engineering challenges
• Set engineering standards and best practices
• Proactively identify and mitigate architectural, operational, and security risks
• Coordinate activities across multiple teams and domains, ensuring cross-team alignment and reuse of capabilities

Stack

• Cloud: Azure
• Container Orchestrators: AKS, Container Apps or App Service
• DevOps tooling: Azure DevOps
• Observability: Azure Monitoring, Log Analytics Workspaces (basic knowledge required)
• Identity and Access Management: Microsoft Entra ID (nice to have)

Working environment

The Innovation department within Innovation & Technology (I&T) delivers ABN AMRO's innovation agenda in close collaboration with Client Units and Functions. The department includes Innovation Tech and Support, AI, Digital Assets and Embedded Banking teams. The Innovation Tech and Support team is a shared services support team enabling delivery of innovation initiatives and facilitating overall operations of the innovation department. Members contribute directly to initiatives based on their expertise.

Requirements

• 5+ years relevant experience (role asks for experienced professionals; technical skillset indicates senior level)
• Proven knowledge and experience with Azure cloud running containerized workloads in production in corporate environments (8 years or more)
• Solid IAM and networking concepts
• Infrastructure as Code: proficient writing Bicep and Terraform
• Proven experience automating Dev, Sec and Ops using CI/CD solutions (preference Azure DevOps)
• Passion to automate repeated tasks using scripting languages and/or Infrastructure as Code
• Understanding of security in public cloud and containerized workloads
• Strong programming expertise (e.g., Python, Java, TypeScript or equivalent) and experience designing backend-heavy systems
• Motivational drive, passion for your field, and ability to coach and share knowledge across teams

We are offering

• Gross monthly salary range: €5,847 - €8,353 (based on a 36-hour work week), including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget
• Excellent pension scheme
• Flexibility in working; working from home is possible in consultation with your team; ergonomic home office setup provided
• Five weeks of vacation per year plus two mandatory days off; option to purchase up to four additional weeks
• Five extra days off for personal development or volunteer work
• Development budget of €1,000 per year (can accumulate up to €3,000)
• Annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands for business and private use
• More information available in the Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) that applies to this vacancy

Application

Please apply online if interested. The application procedure includes CV selection, job interview(s), possible assessment, job offer and onboarding.