Solution Architect Container Platform

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,516 and EUR 6,449 (scale 09).
• 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.

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Design and help grow the container platform of the future at Rabobank. As Solution Architect Container Platform, you will guide our OpenShift service and make an impact on hundreds of DevOps squads. Read on to discover how you can make a difference.

Bring structure to complex technical challenges and lead the development of the OpenShift container platform. As a Solution Architect, you work closely with fellow architects and guide the platform team. You translate technical challenges into scalable solutions and ensure a secure, reliable, and future-proof infrastructure. In this role, you are the linchpin between technology, strategy, and collaboration.

• Designing and standardising container services for a multi-cloud environment.
• Collaborating with the AKS/EKS Solution Architect on shared standards and integrations.
• Implementing security and compliance within the container platform.

• 36 hours per week
• More than 100 DevOps squads use the container platform
• Over 49,000 Rabobank colleagues worldwide

• Leading the architecture process for the OpenShift platform and ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
• Coordinating collaboration between different platform teams and sharing innovations and best practices.
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement and DevOps maturity within the team.

As Solution Architect, you are responsible for translating the long-term vision into concrete steps and guiding engineers in implementing platform capabilities.

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people’s differences, we become an even better bank. We are therefore curious about what you will add to our Engineering Platforms team.

‘We build more than platforms - we build trust. As a team, we thrive on autonomy, ownership, and the freedom to innovate. I believe that when talented engineers are trusted and empowered, they create solutions that are not only robust and scalable, but also transformative.’Frank Levering, Tech Lead Container Platforms.

“As a Solution Architect at Rabobank, I work in an environment where availability and security are essential. My design decisions directly shape how customers experience our digital services. I enjoy collaborating with passionate colleagues in a culture that values openness and innovation. What drives me is the opportunity to build scalable platforms that empower teams and make a real impact. “Daan Roskam, Solution Architect Container Platforms.

The 12 people in the Engineering Platforms team provide a secure, scalable, and innovative infrastructure for the entire bank. Collaboration is our way of working; as one goal-oriented team within Rabobank. We work hybrid, actively share knowledge, and encourage each other to become better every day.

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: at Rabobank, you work on yourself & the world around you at the same time.

You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a good balance between work and home. You can work on banking matters for our private and business clients, but also on social issues such as food and energy transitions.

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger by complementing each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in each other. We seek diversity in knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. We strive for diversity and the space to be yourself in every department - whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about.

• Experience with OpenShift and container platforms
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud-native patterns, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (such as Terraform, Ansible) and GitOps
• Stimulating collaboration
• Solution-oriented
• Taking unequivocal ownership

To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the position. Pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers; this, together with your CV, is the only information we will use to evaluate you in this round. If this is missing from your application, your application will not be considered. You can draw on your work, 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:

• How would you approach securing an OpenShift platform in a regulated enterprise environment?
• How would you implement governance across multiple OpenShift clusters to ensure consistency in configuration, access control, and resource usage?
• How should an enterprise-wide Container platform be set up to make sure the platform is secure and consumers can work efficiently?

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter, ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl
• We will hold the interviews through a video call. If you are selected for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will reach out to you via SMS and email to schedule the interview.
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A screening is part of the process.
• 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.

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