cloud engineer (ms azure)

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.

As a part of our team, you are responsible for the architectural decisions, engineering, integration and maintenance of the KBC cloud platform. Currently we actively manage AWS and Azure cloud environments and keep an eye on other cloud platforms.

The focus is on technology and infrastructure services, not the development of applications on top of the cloud platform.

The latter is handled by DevOps teams with whom you will be working closely.

You assist in feasibility studies to take on new technological services or improvements and help design the services with focus on security, maintainability, flexibility and efficiency. You work together with architects and analysts to come to a proper final design, product owners and scrum masters to govern the exercise and its allocated resources, and software engineering to ensure effective positioning and service offerings.

You maintain operational stability and efficiency in a production setting, and as such are able to rotate in the team to guarantee a 24/7 support. During the week (on call) and/or on the weekend work for releases (by exception – because we release during office hours). The regular working hours are flexible.

The team you take part in delivers engineering and maintenance towards multiple business units and departments. As such, you will have to deal with multiple customer bases, each having their own set of requirements and time constraints. This also implies the processes such as incident, release management, disaster recovery. The scope of work can be volatile as this is a young platform in a highly evolving ecosystem.

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
• Medicover
• 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 and snacks in our community area where we hang out and play darts, and many dining options in the surrounding area

What we expect from You:

• Public cloud design principles.
• Azure basic infrastructure: portal, CLI, IAM.
• Terraform experience.

• PowerShell scripting knowledge.
• Flexible, social, creative personality.
• True team player.
• Able to formulate technical and architectural vision and share this in a constructive way with your peers and stakeholders.
• Known to deliver quality (performant, secure, maintainable, documented)
• Detail-oriented.
• Able to work independently, self-starter and explore.
• Able to stay positive.
• Able to follow the public cloud landscape and market.

What you can expect during the recruitment process:

• After sending your CV in English, expect a two-round interview process, one online in English with the Belgian team leader, and the other 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.