Senior System Engineer (DevOps) Consultant at Backbase

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We are currently looking for an experienced  System Engineer (DevOps) Consultant to join our Professional Services (PS) team in Amsterdam

PS makes sure the implementation of our product at our customer’s location goes ahead as smoothly as possible
The PS team also provides product training and implementation support services to all of our customers and partners
 

This position is for the team within PS that handles consultancy projects
These are projects where the actual implementation of our product is handled by the client or a system integration partner and Backbase takes up an advisory role
Systems Engineers in these projects analyse the particular situation, the needs and existing set up of the client and  provide documented guidelines for the implementation

This is a challenging position where you will be exposed to a big variety of environments and technologies within different organisations across the globe
 

Your tasks will include

  • Enabling our customers to setup their environments from test to production;

  • Designing, developing and overseeing the implementation of solutions that improve the stability, scalability, availability and latency;

  • Working hand in hand with our customers onsite (around 50% of the time you will be travelling internationally);

  • Taking ownership of project deliverables;

  • Creating solutions rather than workarounds;

  • Configuring CI & CD systems;

  • Ensuring reliability by automation;

  • Giving advice on latest security standards;

  • Pin-pointing bottlenecks and optimizing performance;

  • Resolving incidents and problems;

  • Collaborating with our R&D team to improve our product;

  • Being a real DevOps Advocate

Your background

  • Bachelor / University degree or equivalent;

  • You have been in a client facing position before and feel comfortable in an advisory role;

  • You have outstanding analytical skills

  • You have designed and/or built mission critical services (large scale internet or cloud-based services);

  • Shell, scripting and Python programming experience;

  • Expertise with Linux / Unix systems;

  • Experience with any of configuration management tools (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt);

  • Experience with any of continuous integration server (such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD);

  • You love efficiency and find smart ways to automate tasks for you and your team;

  • Knowledge of cloud computing concepts, experience with AWS, or Azure, or GCE;

  • Solid understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (Zabbix, NewRelic, Cactai, Graphite, Log Stash, Nagios, Ganglia etc
    );

  • Must have working knowledge of Maven and Jenkins;

  • Proven experience with production systems and dealing with production issues;

  • Driven, focused self-starter who takes ownership;

  • Extensive knowledge and experience with automation tools;

  • Experience deploying to application servers such as Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere in enterprise environments, and working with Relational and NoSQL Databases;

  • Experienced with using Agile development methodologies;

  • Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken)