DevOps Engineer - API Platform

This Is What We Offer You Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,105 and EUR 5,862 (scale 08) for a 36-hour work week.Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution. Or view all our benefits. Join the Kong Platform & Infra team as we transform how 8000+ internal engineers at Rabobank discover, adopt, and integrate with our mission-critical integration platforms (API Gateway/Kong, Event Streaming/Kafka, ,Message Queues, File Transfer). We are seeking a skilled and proactive engineer to manage and enhance our Kong API Gateway platform deployed across hybrid environments—AKS, EKS and on-premises OpenShift clusters. This role involves designing, deploying, maintaining, and optimizing the API gateway infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and security of API traffic across the enterprise Practical Examples Work with enterprise-scale integration challenges while having the autonomy to redesign and improve systems.Balance cutting-edge technology with pragmatic solutions that work in a large financial institution.Join a team that values both technical excellence and genuine collaboration.Work with experienced engineers while having space to challenge and improve how things are done. Together working towards to “Empowering Rabobank with instant and effortless application data exchanges”. Your responsibilities Design and implement Kong API Gateway solutions in AKS, EKS and OpenShift environments.Manage the lifecycle of Kong components including Kong Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and plugins.Maintain and develop scripts/pipelines for managing our nfrastructure in both cloud and on-premise, configurations, and gathering metricsMonitor and troubleshoot API traffic, latency, and gateway performance issues.Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Application teams to define API standards, policies, and governance.Ensure secure API exposure through authentication, rate limiting, logging, and auditing.Maintain and upgrade Kong Gateway versions and associated infrastructure components.Document architecture, configurations, and operational procedures. You'll become part of the "silent fabric of all data exchange between applications at Rabobank" - enabling engineers to innovate without integration complexity. Together we achieve more We believe in the power of differences. By combining people's unique qualities, we become a better bank. We're curious to know what you'll add to our Kong Platform & Infra team. Your work directly improves the daily experience of every engineer at Rabobank. When you remove friction from integration processes, you multiply productivity across the entire organization. The Kong Platform & Infra team values both technical excellence and genuine collaboration. We work with experienced mulitnational engineers while having space to challenge and improve how things are done. Our culture is built on empathy first, outcome over output, first-principles thinking, pragmatic excellence, and continuous learning. Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank At Rabobank, we believe we grow stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in each other. We seek diversity in knowledge, skills and experience, as well as gender, background and culture. Every department strives for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are. That's what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about. You & your talent 3+ years of Dev Ops/Platform Engineer RoleGood experience with API Gateway preferrably Kong API Gateway. Experience with Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), Azure DevOps Pipelines and Network.Experience with Openshift and container deploymentsProficiency in Bash, Python, Terraform and AzureCLI scripts. Experience with CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps. Familiarity with API security best practices (OAuth2, mTLS, JWT). Strong troubleshooting skills in containerized environments. Experience of monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, or Grafana.Technical Communication: Explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholdersOutcome-Focused: Balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery of user value Nice to Haves: Experience with financial services technology landscapes and regulatory requirementsUnderstanding of enterprise governance, security, and compliance in large organizationsFamiliarity with legacy system integration and gradual modernization approachesExperience in platform development Apply To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a mandatory cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the role. Please pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers; together with your CV, these responses form the basis for our evaluation in this round. Submitting both a CV and answers to the three questions is the minimum requirement to be considered in the selection process. A cover letter is not mandatory but may be submitted optionally. You may draw on your work experience, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions: What motivates you to apply for this role? Which of your skills and experiences align best with this position, and what additional value would you bring beyond the requirements listed in the job description? How would you like to grow professionally within the team and within Rabobank? Please submit these answers in the application section titled 'Add your cover letter (optional)' on the website portal. You & the application process You can apply for the Dev Ops Engineer vacancy at Rabobank, until fulfilment. Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter via ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nlIf you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.Answers to frequently asked questions can be found at Rabobank rabobank.jobs/en/faqA reliability check is part of the procedure.We respect your privacy. To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.