Java Devops Engineer

For a bank in Amsterdam, we are looking for Java engineers (36h/week) with guts! This bank believes that business value is delivered by Agile top engineers working together in high performing DevOps teams, according to the Scrum framework. Teams are composed of both Dev and Ops Engineers, sometimes sharing responsibilities.

You are able to design, develop, test, deliver and maintain high-quality software solutions for our customers. Engineers have a responsibility to ensure delivery across end-to-end application chains. They focus on quality and continuously improve themselves, their products and processes.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

You will deliver business value across the entire end-to-end application chain together with your team. You understand the total stack and contribute to all activities on your backlog.

Some examples of activities are:

- Build beautiful and maintainable code.
- Use your knowledge of one or more frameworks (depending on your domain this concerns User Interfaces, Middleware, Databases, etc.) to make your application better.
- Have an understanding of Operating Systems (Unix, Windows, etc.) and Middleware software. You know where the risks are between your application/DB and OS and Middleware.
- You understand and apply capacity- and performance management.
- You understand the principles of Continuous Delivery and use these in your DevOps team.
- You test code and applications: unit, system, regression, functional, integration, security, PEN, and chain testing at different (more and more connected) environments.
- You use the most important ITIL processes and understand how these support the quality of your application.

WHO ARE YOU?

You are a driven IT engineer who feels personal responsibility for the quality of your application and its reliability. You are ambitious with what you and your DevOps team want to achieve. You bring positive energy to the team and have very good social and communication skills. This leads to great performance, no matter if it is an on-shore, near-shore, offshore, or virtual team.

You have a good understanding of banking in general or you are passionate about learning it. You are able to discuss with your stakeholders and product owner about features and stories and can translate these into software with real business value.

YOUR EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUND:

- Education at Bachelor/Master level with a strong analytical background, preferably in IT, Cybernetics, or Econometrics
- 5 years experience as Java Engineer
- Certifications and/or proven proficiency in one or more programming languages, specialized in Java development, using Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring frameworks
- Strong knowledge about HTTP, REST API's and JSON are crucial
- Knowledge of NoSQL Database like Cassandra
- AKKA and Kafka
- Good knowledge of Scripting like Shell etc.
- Preferred additional knowledge on Payments domain;
- CSD (Certified Scrum Developer/Engineer) is a pre
- Work experience in an Agile organization and you have proven Agile mindset and behaviour.
- An excellent spoken and written command of English.

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.