At a glance

Within ICS' Information & Technology, we're searching for an Azure Platform Engineer to put your experience build up the Azure Cloud Based Service Provider, in helping the organization to achieve a high through put and reduce time to market. 
Are you a true team player with a strong Agile mindset and platforms and engineering background? Are you capable of turning ideas and opportunities into visible results? 

Do you want to work together with various disciplines in a dynamic and changing environment? Great, because this could well be the start of an impressive adventure at International Card Services (ICS).

Your job

A typical day in the life of…

• You start the day by joining the daily standup
• Align with Azure Cloud platform team, application DevOps teams, CISO and Architecture teams to understand their requirements and implement platform services inline with set guidelines and principles
• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes and procedures part of the team 
• Contribute to the Reusable Assets
   

Working environment

ICS has the ambition to be the safest payments provider of the Netherlands. For over 30 years we’ve been the creditcardspecialist and market leader in issuing Visa and Mastercards. To achieve our ambition, we are innovating ICS from the ground up between 2024-2028.
Step by step our company is evolving. Our technologies, the hard- and software for our daily work, the office in which we do so, our processes, the way we provide help to our customers, the skills we have. 
Everything we need to innovate to face the future even better than before is something we tackle. That is how we remain the safest and most reliable payment provider. 

You’ll be working with the Cloud platform engineering team of ICS: Central Azure Cloud platform team is a team of engineers & coaches with the goal of making development teams’ lives better and more fun by increasing the speed and quality of code and research new possibilities. They do so by offering greater learning choices combined with experimenting new technologies and much more. 

We like to keep things informal and prefer working together on things via pairing or mobbing; everything that can be automated, we try to automate. And we’re always looking for that next improvement!
 

Your Profile

You have a good experience in solving difficult problems in multiple teams. That experience has shaped you into an effective expert that can help to setup the best practices, frameworks documentation templates for ICS IT.
You do what is necessary to achieve results, without being constrained by a traditional division of roles, tasks, development methodologies, or other sacred cows. 
You have an innate drive to improve yourself and your (practical) knowledge. We’re keen to hear what you have recently learned during a meetup or conference that you attended (online).

You really need to recognize yourself in the following requirements:

• 4-6 years of IT experience and 2-3 years of experience in Azure Administration/Platform Engineering experience.
• Support Infrastructure Development: Assist in designing and managing Azure-based infrastructure solutions(IaaS and PaaS), Azure Virtual networks, NSG, UDR, Firewalls, Virtaul machines(Windows and Linux), Storage, Policy, SQL database etc.
• Security and Governance: Implement security controls using Management groups, Azure Policy, GPO, resolving vulnerabilities etc.

It would be nice if you have knowledge and/or experience with these ones as well:

• Learn and Implement Automation: Gain experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, ARM Template and PowerShell for automating resource provisioning.
• Contribute to CI/CD Pipelines: Help develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for continuous integration and delivery.
• Assist in Kubernetes Management: Learn about Kubernetes and support in configuring and managing clusters for containerized applications.

What are we offering?

At International Card Services you can develop your competences to the max! Besides that, we offer:

• the opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally.
• very nice working environment and open culture that respects you as an individual!
• a salary in Hay scale 11
• a substantial education budget
• excellent secondary working conditions, like a benefit budget (11% of the gross annual salary), a public transport card and a solid pension scheme.
• room to visit seminars and to research new technologies to improve our solutions.
   

Interested?

Then we would like to invite you to apply directly via the button below. Tell us in a letter of motivation why you would like to join ICS, why you expect to be a suitable candidate for the role of Azure Platform Engineer and illustrate your relevant working experience.