Product Owner VM

At Rabobank we want to deliver the best possible services for our DevOps engineers, and you as Product Owner (PO) can play a central role in providing them!  As Foundation4Tech we have a mission: “Driving innovation and excellence in IT services, we ensure seamless and secure operations across servers, storage, operating systems, databases, networks and end user & application protection”

Within Foundation4Tech, Platform Services is responsible for the development, delivery, management and innovation of stable, high quality, secure and cost-efficient platform services consisting of Windows and Linux and the support tools for all of these.

The scope for the development and innovation of platform services is global, while the scope for the delivery and management of the platform services is regional based, and in this case the EU region.

Besides the focus on availability and continuity of the services, the change agenda is extensive: increased focus on security and compliancy by design, automation and self-service so our service portfolio allows services to be combined into (bigger) Managed Standardized Services (MSSs) to unburden our consumers.

Platform Services is organized in several Agile teams that make sure these services are in the best shape both on-premise and in the cloud.

You and your job

One of the bigger changes on standardization and moving higher in the technology stack will be around Virtual Machines. Apart from the technical implementation, it means another way of looking at your application as consumer of our MSS. Short-lived and re-deployability are key. As a first priority, early Q4 2024 we will be going live with our MSS VMs Public Cloud (Azure & AWS). All consumers with VMs in the cloud will need to migrate to the MSS in 2025. You connect via interpersonal relations and work in cooperation with our consumers and other squads to make this migration a success. This is just the start since we like to have one recognizable MSS in place, both for on prem and in the cloud. Involving the consumers and stakeholders as the primary contact for this service and make sure that the service is a proper MSS is your primary goal. Together with the service owner you align on the service development plan (roadmap).

You and your position

Practical Examples

• Responsible for the execution of change, continuity and compliancy together with the devops teams
• Make sure that timely delivery is achieved
• Stakeholder management is key
• Naturally mingle to listen to our consumers, while challenging the change needed;
• Communicate naturally, across different organizational layers, using your story-telling & presenting skills including status reporting;

Facts & Figures

• 36 hours per week
• 40.000+ Rabobank colleagues around the world

Top  responsibilities

• Enabled our consumers to migrate all non-standardized VMs (first within cloud) towards the MSS. You have been able to provide insights and report upon progress.
• Stakeholder management
• Enrichment of the currently defined MSS with proposed solutions to simplify the engineers’ journey. 
• Have a sharp product vision in place, and liaison that towards the service providers you rely on as part of your MSS on VMs. For this the provider/consumer model (across areas and tribes)  is clear consisting of agreements on support and ownership. 
• The user group VMs has a clear agenda steered upon by you and the consumers provide you with feedback to inspect and adapt your MSS. 

Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at E&ET Foundation4Tech Platform Services.

The 65+ people in Platform Services make sure our bank is always on, 24*7 available for continuity of our services. Working together is the way we work; as 1 purposeful team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

Skills:

• Intellectual ability and/or work experience on Bachelor/Master level
• Agile - Product Owner certification
• Experience in a Product Owner role
• Solid skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Relevant product Knowledge (technical and business)
• Leadership and communication skills

Competences:

• Stakeholder management
• Focus on results
• Collaboration

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the EU and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

You and the job application process

Reply to the vacancy for Product Owner Virtual Machines Platform Services at Rabobank before 15-11-2024.

• Any questions about the job content? Contact: Marco Ruwaard, Senior Manager Platform Services via marco.ruwaard@rabobank.nl
• Responses will be handled in accordance with vacancy management.
• A cover letter, explaining your motivation, is required
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact: Eefje Koopman, Recruiter via eefje.koopman@rabobank.nl.
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