Cloud Engineer at Coolblue (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

As a Cloud Deployment Engineer at Coolblue you help our developers deploy 100 pull requests per day.

What you tell people at parties

"I've got my head in the clouds all day long."

What you really do

• You maintain and improve our deployment pipelines, so the developers can smoothly and reliably release their applications.
• You create and maintain the infrastructure as code  for our AWS cloud environment.
• You support developers in deploying their applications.
• You experiment with new technology to research future use.
• You automate recurring tasks to make your job (and that of the developers) easier.

How you do it

• You like to be challenged. You see the obstacles to get to a cloud-based infrastructure as an opportunity to learn.
• You share knowledge with your Tech Development colleagues to make them self-sufficient. Better teach a man to fish than to give him one, right?
• You stay cool when things break. You search for the root cause and dont stop until you find it. Once you do, you make sure this cant fail again.
• You don't wait for things to come to you. You go out and get them. You're self motivated, communicative and get things done.
• You work together, because you like to learn from your colleagues. You coach your team members and provide them with honest feedback.
• You have your own opinion and youre able to voice it in a constructive discussion.

Team

You will be part of the Cloud Deployment Team: a team consisting of smart, experienced and highly motivated engineers who want to take our IT Development department to the the next step in cloud infrastructure. The engineers in this team know everything about the systems of our web platform.  Your team will be supported by a Team Lead, Product Owner and a Scrum Master.

A day at the office

During the stand-up, you agree to work with Jamie (our cloud expert) on moving some domains to Route 53. The configuration is not complex, but you need to call with our current hosting provider. It's a bit of a challenge as it is hard to get the right information about what they are doing and when. However, you work closely with them and together you get it done by lunch.

In the afternoon you talk to the Product Assortment development team and discuss how we can use data from Google to give customers assortment recommendations. You discuss different options for implementation with the team and agree to join them next sprint for a few days to create an API Gateway with some Lambda functions and an Elasticache Redis cluster.
At the end of the day, Frank (senior developer from your team) demonstrates the new solution for the assets of the website. They are now being served from an S3 bucket, with CloudFront caching in front of it. It works great, so well take it into Production next week. After that, it's time to go out and have a nice specialty beer. You do check your beers in Untappd, right?

What we're asking

• You are smart and have some way to prove it.
• You are awesome with Linux, Windows or both! Since we have .NET, Delphi and PHP stacks we can use your experience.
• You are strong with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
• You believe in configuration management - if its not managed, its not real.
• You know scripting and have development experience in Python, Ruby, Javascript or plain old Bash.
• You automate all the things from bootstrap to backup.
• You have a DevOps mindset with a strong drive to get things done. You automate. You collaborate. You communicate.
• You have experience working with CloudFormation. Certification is a plus, otherwise we'll make sure you get it.
• You have done similar work before, at least a couple of years.
• You think big and start small. In the end, it's about getting things done.
• You take pride in what you do, but welcome feedback.
• You get bonus points if you have experience working with Scrum and if you have experience working with other cloud providers. You also get bonus points for writing a nice cover letter, you would make team lead Sander Knape very happy with that!
• You are willing to relocate to Rotterdam or somewhere nearby.

What we're offering

• Money.
• Over 30 training courses at our own Coolblue University.
• A 10% discount on all of our products.
• An awesome workplace. With freshly prepared meals, monthly TGIF drinks, epic Coolblue parties, and an informal, playful office space.
• 25 leave days. As long as you'll promise to come back.
• Travel allowance and a retirement plan.
• An office at the best possible location. It's only a short stumble away from Rotterdam Central Station. Or a 2-minute walk.
• Relocation assistance, from a to z (if you live abroad).
• Dutch language courses. To help you become a Rotterdammert.
• An international work environment. With colleagues from places like Belgium, Spain, Australia, Mexico, and Italy.
• Discount on a new bicycle. Because that's how we roll.
• A job at one of the fastest-growing companies in the Benelux region.
• Plenty of space for initiatives and original ideas. We welcome them. Whether you've been with us for a week, month, or year.

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Identity & Access Engineer at Coolblue (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

An Identity & Access Engineer at Coolblue ensures that everyone has the right access to the Coolblue systems, so we can deliver our customers packages safely and on time

What you tell people at parties

I ensure safe and easy access to the digital world of Coolblue. No, I cant recover your bitcoin wallet.

What you really do

• You design and deliver safe, user-friendly, and scalable Identity & Access solutions for over 2,500 Coolbluers.
  
• Youre always expanding and improving the I&A systems and processes.
  
• You can find the balance between building a really cool, new solution thatll have an immediate impact and making sure your solution is safe and maintainable when were 10x our current size.
  

How you do it

• You make sure all supported systems work well to keep the systems access safe and available.
  
• Team autonomy is important at Coolblue, so we wont hold your hand during the process. You have enough subject knowledge to build the perfect solution for Coolblue with your team.
  
• You and your team work end-to-end on design, implementation, and delivery.
  
• You initiate change to make Identity & Access a little bit better every day.
  
• You present your ideas in a simple and understandable way, so both your technical and non-technical colleagues understand.
  
• You think big, but build small. In the end, its about getting the job done.
  

Team

You work in a scrum team with engineers who are all focused on delivering the best Identity & Access solutions. Working in an Agile engineering team at Coolblue means having great ideas, but being able to cut them into small deliverables. To help you do so, your team has a Scrum Master and a Product Owner.

A day at the office

This morning, you grab a cup of coffee with application expert Lucas, to discuss how we can best adapt our AD security group, so it matches the new organization structure of our HR tooling. After that, its time for a stand-up with the team. The sprint is on schedule. Your colleague mentions he got started on an issue that was reported by Tech Services. Since he thinks its DNS-related, he wanted to involve team Identity & Access.

After the stand-up, you get started on writing a short How to enable your 2FA so it can be distributed. As soon as everyone is up-to-date, we can start selecting the first cloud applications to use it. Better safe than sorry!

After lunch and a brisk walk through Rotterdams city center, you get started on the implementation of a number of things to make our Active Directory even safer. Then, its time for a refinement session about user stories and ideas with the team and the Product Owner. There are some nice things in the pipeline!

After a game of pool, you walk by team Office Automation. You spoke with a colleague about needing TLS1.2 to connect a certain application to AWS, which is a standard feature of Windows10. Since team Office Automation just started the migration, you decide to give them a heads-up.

You do some team checks for a few stories; looking good. Were going to finish this sprint!

What we're asking

• A few years of experience as a Windows engineer, concerning designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting Identity & Access environments
  
• Youre a Windows Ninja - You know Windows client & server environments like the back of your hand
  
• You have a deep knowledge of typical Identity & Access components, such as Active Directory/ADFS/LDAP/AzureAD, Microsoft DNS, Domain Controllers, SAML, federation, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Role Based Access Controls (RBAC), Privileged Identity Management (PIM), PKI, or federated and claims-based identity
  
• You can keep up with conversations about identity lifecycle management, Single Sign On (SSO), access management, privileged identity management, identity access governance, as well as Just Enough and Just in Time Administration
  
• You have experience with IAM tool environments (e.g. UMRA/Tools4Ever)
  
• Other than technical solutions, you also know how to approach things from a process-based perspective
  
• You have good communicative and cooperative skills and a go for it-mentality
  
• Youre fluent in both Dutch and English
  

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