Junior DevOps Engineer – Early Career Program
Kick‑start your career in the front line of real‑time data innovation. Build meaningful solutions while growing into the engineer you want to become.
You & Your Role
During this Early Career Program at Rabobank, you will work on your career by becoming part of Team Godzilla, the engineering squad behind Rabobank’s Event Streaming Platform. You’ll help internal teams use real‑time data — from notifying customers about balance updates to enabling instant fraud‑detection capabilities. You will onboard users to our Kafka platform, troubleshoot technical issues, and contribute to a scalable, future‑proof event‑driven architecture.
After completing the program, you will continue your journey as a Junior DevOps Engineer, with opportunities to grow into areas like event streaming, automation, or cloud engineering. Alongside your role, you’ll follow a structured learning program that includes technical courses, professional development, and weekly collaboration days with fellow Young Professionals.
You & Your Future
During this program at Rabobank, you will work on your career by immediately joining a permanent team, where you will dedicate one day a week to training and development. After completing the program, you will be fully trained as a Dev Ops Engineer and can continue to grow within the organisation. You will build a valuable network, gain experience with a variety of data projects, and develop skills that will benefit you throughout your career.
In Short
Onboarding new teams to our Event Streaming Platform
Building automation tooling, such as Python scripts or CI/CD pipelines
Participating in quarterly innovation sprints
Contributing to new event‑driven features and platform improvements
Practical
Program duration: 18 months
Hours per week: 36 or 40
Start date: In consultation
Location: Hybrid – Utrecht Croeselaan 18
Contract: Fixed term, scale 7
Growth opportunities after the program
Your Development as a Young Professional
Within this program, you will have the opportunity to get to know yourself, the field, and Rabobank. The program lasts a total of 18 months. You will start the program in a junior position within one team, participate in (online) workshops and training modules with other juniors, and quickly gain practical experience. Together with others, there is room for creativity and initiative to organize events, training sessions, and knowledge‑sharing sessions. This way, we continuously improve the program and ourselves! You will easily build a large and valuable network within the bank.
Your development in our Early Career Program
In the Rabobank Early Career Program IT, you will work on your technical and personal development for 18 months. This includes technical training based on the work you do and your personal interests. You will also work on relevant skills, and various themes such as sustainability, as well as learning how a bank operates. In addition to this, you will choose one of the tracks that suits you. In these tracks, you will focus more on the content of your role. You will meet fellow starters from different departments weekly, and on other days you will work within your own team.
Learning from each other
Development is our top priority. Because the best way to learn is by doing, through mistakes and successes. At Rabobank we offer you the right balance between freedom and supervision. To develop talents you never thought you possessed. To specialize in a professional field or explore the things you're good at and enjoy doing. During your program you can count on us for excellent supervision. You'll work with experienced colleagues and have lots of contact with young professionals.
Work on your own development & shape the world around you
For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That's why we want to invest in you and work together towards a better world. We summarize this in one sentence: “At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time.” This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment, and a good balance between your work and home life. You can work on banking matters for our private and business clients, but also on societal issues such as food and energy transitions.
About Rabobank
Rabobank is a Dutch bank serving more than 9.5 million customers across 38 countries. Together with our members, customers, and partners, we work toward a future where everyone has access to enough, healthy food — and where we live and work more sustainably. At Rabobank, you grow your career while contributing to positive change in the world around you.
You & Your Talent
Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, Informatics or System and Network Engineering
Basic experience in at least one of: Python, Java or .NET
Understanding of software engineering principles and REST APIs
Interest in event streaming technologies (Kafka experience is a plus)
You take ownership and show initiative
You communicate clearly and ask questions when needed
You are curious, eager to learn and collaborative
You and the job application process
Still unsure? Feeling a bit nervous about applying? Don’t worry—we’re looking forward to receiving your application!
Questions about working at Rabobank or the application process? Contact Sacha Veenhof at Sacha.Veenhof@Rabobank.nl
Please upload both your CV and motivational letter. Applications missing either document cannot be considered
Applications via e-mail won’t be taken into consideration
Interviews will be conducted via video call
If selected, Bo—our virtual assistant—will contact you via SMS and email to schedule your interview
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