AWS Cloud Engineer

Why you want to work for NS as a Senior Cloud Engineer

• You will be part of NS International's strategy
• You will work within one of NS International's Agile teams
• You will work in a complex IT environment consisting of the latest techniques, meaning: endless opportunities and plenty of personal development

What you'll be doing as a Senior Cloud Engineer
NS International builds applications for the online marketing and sales of international train travel. These applications are hosted on AWS with the help of the systems team. To unburden the teams as much as possible, we are working on a standardised platform that eliminates the complexity of building and roll-out and instead provides standard solutions for elements such as monitoring.
On one hand, your role is to help teams utilise the capabilities of AWS, and on the other, to look at where the systems team can offer a helping hand. You can translate these insights into software products yourself in a hands-on way. In general, we resolve as much as possible with native AWS technology, but where necessary, we write solutions ourselves in Go or Node, for example. The teams work primarily with Angular, Java, Swift and Kotlin. You are not necessarily an expert in those domains, but you do understand what is important for solid software development.

This is where you'll be working
NS International offers the traveller high-speed transportation to national and international destinations. We strive for comfort, speed and convenience. NS International offers sustainable travel to the heart of the city. Our NS International Lounges in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Schiphol make travelling with our trains very appealing. In addition, the number of destinations at home and abroad is growing steadily. To this end, we are working with our national and international partners to open up the international rail network further.
The NS International business unit is part of NS Groep and focuses on full service provisions for international train travel. NS International offers clients speed and convenience with regard to booking tickets, travelling to and from the station, and their stay at the station and on the train. NS International is part of Railteam, a partnership between Europe's most important high-speed companies. Railteam seamlessly connects the European high-speed rail networks. NS International is working intensively with the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB) in the context of BeNe to achieve a distribution system that records all commercial and financial transactions. The International IT department works for NS International and provides support for virtually all IT issues experienced by the Marketing, Sales, Finance and Operations departments and in the context of BeNe.
The International IT department has around 40 employees who work intensively with the product owners of the different business departments in various multidisciplinary scrum teams. The teams usually comprise the following roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Information Analyst, Engineer, Test Analyst/Tester, Functional Application Administrator.
The IT landscape has many interfaces with different organisations and systems in various countries.
NS International implements elements of the SAFe framework and works on the basis of Programme Increments. This also involves coordination with other organisational units within NS and with external parties, with NS International playing a directive role.
In this context, you need to be able to collaborate with business and IT colleagues who also have their own priorities.
Within NS we value diversity and inclusion. It's improves collaboration and it often improves results. Whatever your background or beliefs are, we mostly care about your vision on the function of senior cloud engineer.
Requirements of the role
To be successful in this role, you will have 5 or more years' experience of building solutions on the “public cloud”. You have a background as a Software Engineer or Systems Engineer with operational experience. You can easily differentiate between what needs to be resolved pragmatically in the short term and what requires a more structural, systematic approach. You enjoy liaising with colleagues, but are also able to work independently.


You possess the following attributes:

• Bachelor degrees or equivalent experience/ability
• Proficient in both Dutch and English
• 5+ years’ experience as Software engineer, Knowledge of a number of the following languages and frameworks:
  • Java
  • Angular
  • Python
  • Node
  • Golang
  • Spring boot
  • bash
• 3+ years’ Experience with developing on AWS
• Knowledge and experience in Scaled environments is a plus
• You have extensive experience with tools/techs such as: native serverless applications and migrations toward cloud native
• Experience with writing CloudFormation
• Professional level AWS certification would be an advantage
• Experience with Scrum and/or agile working
• Knowledge and experience of CI/CD
• Knowledge of Microservices architecture (theory) would be an advantage
• Knowledge of OAuth2 / OpenID Connect would be an advantage
• Experience of secure development techniques

In addition, we require you to have the following competencies:

• Continual improvement, holding one another to account in respect of agreements
• Enterprising, capable of recognising opportunities and acting upon them; you take the initiative yourself rather than waiting.
• Precise and able to work meticulously under different conditions.
• Driven, energetic and able to enthuse others
• The ability to handle setbacks or changing priorities

The ability to work in a dynamic environment