Systems Engineer (IAC)

KBC Global Services is the engine behind KBC Group – a leading bank-insurance group with over 41,000 talented employees serving more than 12 million clients across Europe. Since 2021, we have been supporting the digital transformation of KBC Group providing software development, QA, AI, and other IT solutions working on a wide range of projects combining classical IT with digital banking.

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and fully automated systems are fundamental for our next generation KBC environment. You will join the team that is pioneering with these concepts and is leading the change towards software defined architectures. The desired state is that each standardized infrastructure service is obtainable by some versioned code declaration and fully automated in the creation, modification, and deletion.

We aim to establish a unified approach that brings all engineering teams along on this journey. By doing so, we will transform our infrastructure from a slow, rigid environment into one that is agile, scalable, and rapidly evolving.

Why us? Because we care. Choosing us, you are choosing work that works for you.

As our Systems Engineer, you would have the following responsibilities: 

• Work on the security, reliability, availability and recoverability of all components in our IaC pipeline
• Enable other teams in onboarding on IaC pipelines and getting onto speed with IaC driven management of their systems
• Troubleshoot & resolve advanced performance issues with respect to the IaC pipelines
• Work together with several senior software engineers in developing new features, improve existing functionality and resolving several known issues
• Implementing a central web application (skyline) that keeps a real-time skyline overview of everything that is going on in the different service brokers
• Developing a service broker framework (own grown python web application based on Flask, Celery) which can be leveraged to offer infrastructure services via a common REST interface

Key competences that will help you succeed:

• Profound experience with Python, Ansible, CICD pipelines, linux 
• 5+ years experience with datacenter infrastructure management
• Experience with system design and architecture
• Experience with REST API’s & library development to support communication with REST API’s

You are a perfect fit for us if: 

• You are quick learner and being able to absorb information autonomously;
• You are a team player;
• You can work in English, both written and spoken, in an international environment;
• You are analytical, problem solving oriented. Someone who challenges the „existing state“;
• You can communicate well to make sure that any issues are made clear to all stakeholders;
• You take responsibility;
• You have a flexible mindset;

You will join a very senior and innovative engineering team, you will get an unique chance to pioneer with GitOps/Infrastructure As Code and in a short amount of time you will get to know & work together with multiple engineering teams within KBC.

If you find this job opportunity interesting and you recognize yourself in the above, apply via the button with your CV in English.