AWS Cloud Engineer

KBC Bank,
the parent company of the
Hungarian K&H Bank
, provides banking services in 5 European countries.

The
international IT solutions
of the banking group,
covering several European countries
, takes place with
Hungarian and Belgian colleagues in Hungary and Belgium
, therefore not only our
services are international
, but also
our teams.

Our responsibilities range from day-to-day
operation
to
application development
and its operation.

We are constantly expanding the Hungarian side of the team
, which is why
we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated
new
employees
with junior,
medior
or possibly senior
work experience
.

What the team is doing:

• Responsible for the KBC cloud platform.
• Architectural design, engineering, integration and the maintenance of AWS Cloud environment.
• The focus is on technology and infrastructure services.
• We are currently maintaining the landing zone for foundation services
• Everything ranging from security, monitoring and logging, networking, IAM, costs, governance, etc.
• The application development is handled by DevOps teams.

What your job will be:

• You will work closely together with the DevOps teams.
• Feasibility studies on new technologies and services.
• Design different services.
• Focus on security, maintainability, flexibility and efficiency.
• Work with architects and analysts on final design.
• Work in an agile environment with product owners and scrum masters, as well.
• Work with software engineers on effective positioning and service offerings.
• Maintain operational stability and efficiency in production.
• 24/7 support, on-call during the week mostly, some weekend releases.
• Engineering and maintenance for business units and departments.
• Work with multiple customers, each having their own requirements and deadlines.
• Incident and release management and disaster recovery.

What you can expect working with us:

• You can make sure your future career is steady within our company
• Life-long learning and plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself
• Competitive salary as well as other benefits such as:
• 10% customizable cafeteria,
• annual performance-based reward,
• company phone with mobile internet, that you can use for private purposes as well
• employee discount at the bank
• Medicare
• Your English language skills won't be worn out as you can use it on a daily basis
• Flexible schedule as we don't use 'Clock in Clock out' system
• As our focus is on teamwork we consider it important to hang out in the "open office" together, but you have the option to spend 3 days per week working from home
• We value your insight and are always open to suggestions
• International environment with a cheerful work atmosphere
• Green office in Millennium Park, equipped with:
• bicycle storage and showers
• restaurant with panoramic views over the Danube and the National Theatre
• free coffee in our community area where we hang out and play darts, and many dining options in the surrounding area

What we expect from you:

• Design principles in public cloud.
• AWS basic infrastructure: portal, CLI, etc.
• Terraform experience.
• Python scripting knowledge.
• Infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Test-driven coding.
• CI-CD on AWS (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Step Functions, etc.)
• True team player.
• Sociable and creative personality.
• Flexibility: young platform in a highly evolving ecosystem.
• Ability to create technical and architectural vision.
• Share this vision in a constructive way with your peers and stakeholders.
• Detail and quality oriented.
• Independent, self-starter and exploring person.
• Follow the public cloud technologies on the market.
• Stay positive.

What you can expect during the recruitment process:

• After sending your CV in English, expect a three-round interview process, one online with our local recruiter, one online in English with the Belgian team leader, and the final round is in person at our office in Budapest (in Hungarian) to get to know each other better.
• An efficient selection process is important for both of us, so we try to make it as fast as possible, and even if you are not selected we will give you a detailed feedback.