devops/cloud engineer

Join our team!

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.

Our Data and Services train is building and hosting a big data platform.

Currently on-prem with a Hadoop cluster but we aim to migrate this to AWS. 

We need you to capture the business requirements and translate them in a coherent design.

From functional requirements, doing a technical design and implementation.

Ensuring all pieces fit into each other over the different products in our catalouge.

The data engineering team develops frameworks and services that can be used by the data engineering community and data scientists.

We help design a big data cloud platform and assist in making policies, standards and best practices.

Guarantee the platform’s useability, security, stability and manageability. 

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 your job will be:

• You help design the platform and the required services with focus on security, maintainability, flexibility, efficiency in a cost efficient manner.
• You work together with architects and analysts to come to a proper design.
• You make use of services provided by the Cloud provider, by 3rd parties and own development to implement the Big Data Platform.
• You contribute to the implementation and maintenance of the technical design. In addition, you support the data analysts and engineers in using the platform and the services.

What we expect from You:

• You have experience in AWS services, Big Data and technologies such as: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.
• You have strong knowledge of Python and knowledge of JSON, YAML, Bash and Linux OS or are willing to learn scripting languages that are demanded for the job.
• Nice to have is experience with Open Source technologies such as: Airflow, Concourse, Spark, Grafana and Prometheus.
• You are fascinated by the world of Big Data and want to learn new tools and technologies. Specialist literature helps you keep abreast of technology trends, so you feel perfectly at home in a rapidly changing world.
• Your verbal and written skills in English are excellent. You can communicate easily with colleagues in different parts of our organization.
• You are self-sufficient. In addition to a training program, you will acquire knowledge on the job, taking the initiative to look for knowledge and answers.
• Prior knowledge of banking and insurance products is not essential, but would certainly be of added value.

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.