VMware DevOps Engineer

The job

After getting your first cup of coffee, either at the office or at home, you start your computer and logon to the network. One of the first things that you do is open the mailbox and incident tooling and take ownership in resolving potential issues that raised through the night and/or questions from other departments. As a financial institute, ING always must be available to its customers.

Before you know it, you take part of the daily standup of the team and present your tasks that you did the day before, whether you had impediments, and how you would like to proceed today.

After the standups you investigate the Sprint overview and pickup the next available story and deliver a high-quality solution for the story.

As experienced VMware engineer, you take part in several meetings throughout the day, to discuss, plan and prepare changes, improvements, troubleshoot, etc. While troubleshooting you make extensive use of the vRealize Operations Manager (VMware Aria Operations) and vRealize LogInsight (VMware Aria Operations for Logs) to find the information you need to solve the issue at hand.

The team

It is part of your mindset to automate tasks that are repeating. You dig up your Ansible playbook and/or Powershell environment and start writing automation code for the tasks. You push the code into an Azure Devops pipeline and run it periodically to keep the environment healthy.

At the end of the day, you make sure your phone is enabled, today your (planned) on-call duty started. During the week duty, you are responsible for the correct working of the entire environment outside office hours, and make sure ING can service its customers. During the night, you got a notification that one or our hardware nodes failed. You get into contact with the vendor and together resolve the hardware failure.

In the spare moments when not having the operational duty and/or stories at hand, you consider what the topic for your next demo would be or update the documentation.

If you recognize yourself in such a potential day, then we are looking for you!

You will work in the tribe GTDCN which stands for Global Tribe Datacenter and Networks and is part of the Tech/Infra department, one of the key tribes that facilitates and hosts the compute infrastructure for ING’s Private Cloud environment. Together with your colleague’s you are responsible for that infrastructure and making sure it’s secure, available and compliant all the time. The business depends on you.

Role and responsibilities

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

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

To be considered for this position you must be knowledgeable about server hardware and infrastructure, have an extensive understanding of VMware datacenter virtualization, and demonstrable expertise in PowerShell and/or Ansible.

Competencies - Skills

• Demonstrable expertise with the VMware technology stack (3+ years of enterprise experience)

• Azure DevOps (Git, Pipelines, Testing, Key vaults)

• Experience in a large corporate environment

• Experience with Powershell / Ansible

• Experience with server hardware and hardware maintenance tasks

• Experience with vSAN

• Experience of block based Storage Solutions

• Have security as a natural mindset

• Working-level knowledge of Agile and DevOps practices

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

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

• Certification and/or proven proficiency in one or more technology, like VCP/VCAP, Ansible and/or PowerShell

• You are located in Europe and are able to move to the Netherlands

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