DevOps Engineer Tooling

• HBO level of working and thinking, preferably in the direction of IT or Computer Science.

• Extensive experience with setting up, managing, and further developing development environments and development tooling.

• Good knowledge of Azure and Azure DevOps, including setting up and managing Continuous Delivery pipelines.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation, preferably with Terraform and Ansible.

• Experience with development, test, security, and quality tooling, such as Git, GitHub, Postman, Webdriver IO, SonarQube, and Mend.

• Experience with scripting and automation, for example with PowerShell and Python.

• Experience with applying DevOps best practices and a strong preference for standardization and automation.

• Affinity with the needs of developers and the ability to translate these into technical solutions.

• Experience within financial services, insurance, or a similar regulated sector is a plus.

• Good command of the Dutch and English languages, both spoken and written.

• Residing in the Netherlands.

• Proactive and take ownership of solutions and improvements.

• Possess strong analytical skills and are able to translate complex technical issues into practical solutions.

• Communicatively skilled and able to collaborate effectively with developers, administrators, and other stakeholders.

• Eager to learn and actively follow developments in the fields of development tooling, automation, and Continuous Delivery.

• Focused on standardization, automation, and continuous improvement.

• Result-oriented, independent, and able to set priorities in a dynamic environment.

• Experience with and affinity for Copilot is a plus.

• Possess strong technical affinity and are able to quickly master new technologies and tooling.

You will get approximately 900 colleagues who all believe they work at a special company. You will get the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the socially relevant theme of pensions. We ensure that your pension is well-arranged, so that you can enjoy your old age without worry.

You will get the chance to truly make a difference when it comes to sustainability, because we have been setting the tone in our business operations and our investments for years. Naturally, you will get a (flexible) workplace at our office in Amsterdam that belongs to the top 7% in the world, truly. And because you will also work from home regularly, you will receive a budget to properly equip your home workspace.

In exchange for your commitment, talent, and skills, you will receive, in addition to your salary plus a holiday allowance and a thirteenth month, 27 vacation days (based on a 36-hour contract) and a public transport card or travel expense allowance for the days you come to the office. And, not unimportantly, you will receive a good training budget so that you can continue to develop yourself. This gives you the chance to grow, within our company or beyond.

Salary per month:
Based on collective labor agreement scale 15 HAY, the range is € 4.335,55 to € 5.780,73 based on 36 hours.

We are Athora Netherlands, an insurance company with the well-known brands Zwitserleven and Reaal. We primarily focus on pensions and life insurance in the Dutch market. We do this as part of a European group with offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. We are a strong company with over one million customers and we want to grow into one of the most important players in the rapidly changing pension market in the coming years. Therefore, we are looking for people who do not shy away from change, who know how to take action, who have the ambition to deliver results, and who therefore know how to get the best out of themselves and their team. Smarter together, we call that.

Team Agile Platform is part of Technology & Operations and provides platforms and tooling that support the development and operations organization. The team focuses on standardization, automation, and the optimal utilization of standard product suites. Development and operations are brought together within the team, with end-to-end responsibility for the solutions and services delivered. In doing so, quality, security, stability, manageability, and scalability are central.

As a DevOps Engineer Tooling, you are responsible for the setup, development, management, and further optimization of the development workspace within Athora. You ensure that developers have access to a secure, standardized, and automated environment for developing, testing, and deploying software. Additionally, you focus on Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure as Code, deployment automation, source control, and quality, security, and test tooling. You actively follow new developments and translate these into applicable solutions for Athora.

Your activities include, among others:

• Designing, developing, testing, implementing, and managing tooling for the development workspace.

• Setting up and managing Continuous Delivery pipelines within Azure DevOps, including quality gates that block insufficient code.

• Automating infrastructure and deployments using, among others, Terraform and Ansible.

• Managing and integrating development tooling, including Git, GitHub, Postman, Webdriver IO, SonarQube, and Mend.

• Supporting automation and scripting using, among others, PowerShell and Python.

• Supporting developers and administrators in effectively using the available tooling and sharing knowledge.

• Inventorying user needs and translating these into technical solutions and improvements.

• Following developments in the fields of Azure, Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and development, quality, security, and test tooling, and assessing their applicability within Athora.

• Contributing to the availability, continuity, security, manageability, and scalability of the services.

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