We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join a critical team within our client's IT department, focusing on payment systems. This role involves working on a business-critical system where reliability is paramount.

Outcomes of the project:

• Ensure high availability ratings for the Clearing and Settlement system (CaSSys).
• Maintain and improve the continuous delivery pipeline for application changes.
• Contribute to a reliable and efficient IT system that processes a significant percentage of Dutch card-initiated payments.

Responsibilities:

• Manage daily operations and maintenance of CaSSys application components.
• Provide 24/7 standby/on-call production support (approximately one week every four weeks).
• Support IT risk procedures and processes.
• Configure and maintain application monitoring.
• Deploy changes and automate deployments using Azure pipelines as part of continuous delivery.
• Test application functionality.
• Patch VMs and address vulnerabilities.
• Assist the team with incident management and problem resolution.
• Contribute to team activities and proactively take ownership of topics

Who are you?

Experience:

• Bachelor's or higher degree - preferred IT related field of study.
• 8+ years of experience in a DevOps environment.

Technical, tools and process knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of Linux server (RHEL) and Oracle Database.
• Knowledge of Windows Servers environment.
• Relevant experience in Scripting (eg, Shell and Python).
• Hands-on knowledge of Ansible.
• Experience in provisioning a (Private) Cloud environment.
• Knowledge of continuous delivery tooling, like Azure DevOps and Ansible.
• Experience in setting up dashboards for monitoring and alerting.
• Proficiency in using the ELK stack, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Good knowledge of TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavior Driven Development).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Cloud Solutions (Azure preferably).
• Good knowledge of IT risk and security measures.