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TenneT is growing fast to realize its strategic ambitions. We play a leading role in driving the energy transition. We are looking for a passionate Senior CI/CD Engineer at our location Arnhem who will contribute to this and that might be you?
 

Your profile and background

We are looking for a senior CI/CD engineer with developer experience to strengthen our growing CI/CD team. As an experienced engineer in this domain you have the drive to innovate, continuously improve, automate and actively engage with the DevOps teams within TenneT to improve and simplify their development workflows to maximise their productivity . 

It are exciting times at TenneT!  
As CI/CD team we see a bright energy future with our ultimate vision Tennet as code to "automate everything" as the mindset for true agility to drive the energy transition. Our mission is to accelerate continuous improvement, repeatability and transparency with a lightning fast CI/CD platform, with high quality built-in, shift security left by design and an energising developer experience. Our motto is "let's break the speed limit!". 

To make all this our new reality we will replace our existing portfolio of self-hosted, on-premise CI/CD tools with a modern CI/CD SaaS platform in public cloud, with on-premise deployments for critical applications within TenneT. We are currently in the midst of selecting and buying the CI/CD SaaS platform and after rollout of this platform this will offer a swift and smooth transition for all development / DevOps teams (approx. 150 developers). 

In this role TenneT can offer you a nice challenge in which you can actively contribute to the transition to DevSecOps team and improved Agile way of working. 

Where will you work? 

TenneT is Europe’s first cross-border grid operator for electricity. With approximately 23,000 kilometres of (extra) high-voltage lines and 42 million end-users in the Netherlands and Germany, we rank among the top five grid operators in Europe.  
You will work within our multi-disciplinary CI/CD DevOps team as part of the PaaS department which belongs to BTO Operations.

Working experience with: 

  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Life Cycle Management, Release & Version Management 

  • CI/CD platforms, tools and familiar with cloud native development 

  • DevOps of managed services 

  • Container orchestration via Kubernetes 

  • Agile development, Scrum 

  • Pipeline development for different technology stacks  

Experience / solid understanding of: 

  • GitOps way of working 

  • A broad spectrum of CI/CD tools / platform, such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Github and ArgoCD, XLD/XLR, Postgress and or other related open source tools in the development of services 

  • Programming/Scripting languages like Java, Python, Bash 

  • LDAP integration & RBAC 

  • Linux environment (preferably Redhat/RHEL) 

Experience with: 

  • Infra-as-code / config-as-code with Ansible / AWX 

  • Elastic Stack 

  • Hashicorp vault, consul 

  • Self-service development 

  • Service operations 

  • Automated testing and deployments 

  • Life Cycle Management  

Competences: 

  • Professional and intellectual ability at bachelor level or higher 

  • A ‘go to’ person who is comfortably able to find his way in a large organization 

  • Communicative, articulate, pro-active and easy to approach 

  • A person that takes timely and informative decisions 

  • A team player, lead by example 

  • 'Automate everything' mindset 

  • Focus on value: Customer/user-centric  

Your contribution to TenneT

As a Senior CI/CD Engineer, you will align with architects, lead developers and engineers to identify improvements for the Developer Experience within TenneT. 
You will define, design, develop, build and run cloud native CI/CD platform services and opinionated pipelines that will be: 
  • available on-demand, through self-service automation for DevOps teams 
  • fully documented, tested and secure 
  • high available, disaster resilient 
  • integrated with infra-as-code / config-as-code automation 
Furthermore you will:
  • define standardized building blocks, provide suggestions and tools to help development decrease lead time; 
  • ensure privacy and security are managed;
  • support lifecycle management, the SLA of the services, resolve incidents with the rest of the team; 
  • actively migrate our development / DevOps teams from legacy CI/CD tools to our modern CI/CD SaaS platform; 
  • help with the 24/7 support rotation; 
  • work in the Arnhem office one day per week. Remaining work is from the home office.

Our recruiting process

Our offer

Flexibility
We are family friendly and flexible
 
Flexible working hours without fixed times and home office options allow you to organize your work individually. Our external partners also provide you with support services for various phases of life - for example, in matters relating to household services or care and career.
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Payment & more
Attractive remuneration and social benefits
 
We offer great benefits such as a salary based on our Collective Labor Agreement, an annual bonus and excellent pension scheme.
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Wellness Balance & Personal Growth
Health - your basis
 
Because we think it is important that you are healthy and feel good, we offer all kinds of great extras: we provide various opportunities to work out via our Always Energy program which offers a wide range of opportunities to indulge in sports (organised training for different sports, competitions and events). And you will receive a sports allowance if you are a member of a sports club.
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Technology & Innovation
Modern working environment
  • Modern IT-tools
  • Ergonomic workstations
  • Very well equipped conference rooms and communication solutions that enable cross-location and cross-border collaboration
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This will be our challenge

BTO will drive security of supply, energy transition, organizational and financial health through digital, data and analytics. BTO will secure solid foundations through seamless end-user services (UX), industry-leading cybersecurity setup and resilient data centers and cloud infrastructure. BTO will have consistent business/BTO alignment, strategic partnerships with vendors and clear standards on architecture, vendor & portfolio management and security. BTO will unlock value of data and digital by building all the necessary enablers (incl. data platform, data governance processes, capabilities) and embedding innovation initiatives into business roadmaps.

Additional information

  • As of soon as possible
  • The weekly working time is 32 - 40 hours per weelk.
 

Salary

4276 € - 8443 €

Diversity

Since we use AI as part of our recruiting process, we would like to create transparency and clarity at this point. The AI serves exclusively as a supporting and recommending tool to make our processes even faster and more efficient. At no time are automated decisions made.
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TenneT is a leading European grid operator. We are committed to providing a secure and reliable supply of electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, while helping to drive the energy transition in our pursuit of a brighter energy future – more sustainable, reliable and affordable than ever before. In our role as the first cross-border Transmission System Operator (TSO) we design, build, maintain and operate over 25,000 kilometres of high-voltage electricity grid in the Netherlands and large parts of Germany, and facilitate the European energy market through our 17 interconnectors to neighbouring countries. We are one of the largest investors in national and international onshore and offshore electricity grids, with a turnover of EUR 9.2 billion and a total asset value of EUR 45 billion. Every day our 8,300 employees take ownership, show courage and make and maintain connections to ensure that the supply and demand of electricity is balanced for over 43 million people.

Lighting the way ahead together