Senior DevOps Engineer | GitLab | OpenShift

At a glance

We're looking for aDevOps Engineer in our Development Services team. In this role you will design, implement, and roll out standardized CI/CD pipelines across multiple product teams and regions. Do you want to play a key role in the platform transition fromJenkins to GitLab CI/CD, and in enabling secure, scalable deployments on Red Hat OpenShift and AWS-based platforms? Do you like to combinehands‑on engineering, platform enablement, and DevSecOps governance in a regulated enterprise environment? We’re looking forward hearing from you.

Your job

In your position as DevOps Engineer you have the following responsibilities:

CI/CD & Pipeline Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain standardized CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD
• Migrate from bitbucket & Jenkins, AWS CodeCommit & Code Pipeline to GitLab
• Maintain and support Jenkins pipelines during the transition and decommissioning phase
• Continuously improve build, test, and deployment automation

Infrastructure & Automation

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK and automation scripts
• Encourage and build automation wherever feasible
• Integrate monitoring and logging solutions (e.g. Splunk) into delivery pipelines

Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)

• Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning)
• Ensure pipelines comply with internal standards and regulatory requirements
• Support audit‑ready pipeline designs and evidence generation

Collaboration & Enablement

• Actively support development teams during migrations and onboarding
• Deliver training sessions and workshops on pipelines, GitLab, and DevOps practices
• Share knowledge and best practices across product teams and regions

GitLab Platform Enablement

• Contribute to GitLab usage standards, pipeline templates, and best practices
• Integrate GitLab with enterprise tooling (e.g. artifact repositories, security scanners, observability)
• Apply Git workflows, branching strategies, and merge‑request standards (trunk‑based development with feature toggles)

OpenShift & Cloud Platforms

• Deploy and operate applications on Red Hat OpenShift (private cloud platform)
• Support deployments on AWS‑based platforms (e.g. ECS/Fargate)
• Ensure scalability, availability, and security of containerized workloads
• Collaborate with cloud platform teams and architects on migration solutions

Working environment

ABN AMRO Clearing is a global clearing firm that provides an integrated suite of financial services to professional trading participants in the global financial market. Our core service offerings consist of execution, clearing, financing, stock borrowing and lending, settlement and custody. Today we clear and finance over 16 million trades per day and cover 90 of the world’s leading exchanges across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Our international network provides comprehensive market access to exchange-listed instruments such as stocks,futures and options. It also covers non-exchange-listed investment instruments and alternative products including bonds, OTC derivatives, warrants, forex, forwards, and energy and commodities. ABN AMRO Clearing consistently ranks among the top three clearers in every time zone, based on turnover and market share.

We are a full subsidiary of the Dutch ABN AMRO Bank, with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo Hong Kong, London, Sao Paulo and Frankfurt. IT is in the heart of our organization, where over 300 developers from more than 30 different product teams and 10 different platform teams try to build the best products & services for our clients.

Your profile

Your nature is to take ownership and act in the driver seat, not waiting until others tell you what to do. You have a strong engineering mindset and problem‑solving skills. You're flexible, adaptive, and eager to continuously learn. You're known for your excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills. And you are able to effectively communicate with all levels of an organization, including senior management/stakeholders across regions and cultures. As we are a global company, global collaboration and communication is key (incidentally also outside EU business hours).On top you match the following hard skills:

• Strong hands‑on experience with GitLab CI/CD
• Experience maintaining or migrating Jenkins pipelines
• Proven experience with Red Hat OpenShift (deployments, scaling, networking, security)
• Solid understanding of Docker and containerization
• Strong Git knowledge and modern branching strategies
• Scripting skills (e.g. Python, Bash)
• Experience working in complex, distributed enterprise environments
• Relevant Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

We Offer

We believe it is important to be a good employer. Joining us means stepping into a role with impact, supported by excellent employment conditions that foster your job satisfaction, development, and wellbeing. In addition, we offer:

• An attractive gross monthly salary (between € 6,072 and € 8,675) based on a 40-hour working week), including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget and depending on your working experience and skills.
• An excellent pension scheme, ensuring that you are well prepared for the future.
• Flexibility in working: working from home is possible in consultation with your team and depending on your role. We will provide an ergonomic home office setup for you.
• Plenty of room for relaxation with five weeks of vacation per year, supplemented by two mandatory days off. You can also purchase up to four additional weeks of vacation annually.
• Five “Banking for better days”: extra days off that you can use for personal development or volunteer work.
• Personal development is key: you receive a development