Storage DevOps Engineer in Amsterdam

The job

If you want to work at a place where we believe that you can live by the agile manifesto without jeopardizing the necessary continuity, compliance and QA measures, where we are committed to deliver stable and secure services to end users, and where we have a 'no nonsense' getting-things done mentality, please read on.

You are a specialist with different block storage products mainly DellEMC, and their business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. You are comfortable with performing all daily storage operations. You have a good understanding of the SAN and storage topology, and can identify the impacts/risks of changes and/or failures. You are also familiar with different server virtualization solutions, e.g. VMware. You enjoy automating repetitive tasks using languages like ansible, powershell, etc. If this fits you, we are looking for you!

What you do (Capabilities)

You’ll be working within Tech/Infra as a Storage DevOps Engineer and be a member of a multi-disciplinary squad with end-to-end responsibility of the underlying infrastructure services.  At ING, the purpose of Tech/Infra is to deliver secure, reliable and cost-competitive IT Infrastructure services that can be consumed on-demand via a self-service portal and APIs.

Yourself and your colleagues work in a DevOps way of working. You will join the Chapter Compute & Storage which will focus on predictability, sustainability, availability, and reliability of the environment.

Your focus will be on maintaining, improving, and automating the storage technology stack enabling our consumer squads to work in an Agile and DevOps way.

To be considered for this position you must be knowledgeable about SAN and storage hardware and infrastructure, have a good understanding of VMware datacenter virtualization, and demonstrable expertise in automation.

Competencies - Skills

•             5+ years maintaining an enterprise class storage environment

•             Preferably Dell EMC certification supported by hands-on experience

•             Able and willing to perform all daily operations on storage environment

•             Good understanding of server virtualization technologies e.g Vmware

•             Working-level knowledge of Agile and DevOps practice  

Competencies - Behaviours

•             Mindset of openness and willingness to try new ways of working and technologies

•             Energetic, enthusiastic, & eager to learn and share

•             End-to-end ownership mindset

•             Independent and autonomous in completing tasks

•             Reflects upon behaviours and performance to proactively identify improvement areas

•             Strong problem solver to structure and improve complex situations

Your education and background

•             Professional and intellectual IT ability at least HBO level

•             Experience from working in high performing (Agile) IT teams

•             Certification on Block Storage Technologies

•             Excellent command of spoken and written English, Dutch also preferable.