Senior Dev Ops Engineer - Digital Assets Services

Rabobank Gruppe; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Rabobank is building a greenfield digital asset foundation. Senior DevOps Engineer to shape custody, trading, payments and tokenization. You will work at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure and blockchain to deliver secure, production-grade systems.

The role involves leading technical delivery, building core capabilities with platforms like Fireblocks and Trever, and guiding engineering culture in a newly formed team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps or platform engineering.
• Strong backend development experience, Java & Spring Boot, API design.
• Experience with cloud platforms, AWS; Azure DevOps and Terraform exposure.
• Experience managing Linux-based environments, observability and incident management.
• Interest in blockchain, digital assets, tokenization and cryptographic key management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation of digital asset custody, trading, payment and transaction flows.
• Design, develop and maintain backend services, APIs and integrations for Rabobank's digital asset ecosystem.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code for reliable platform operations.

Job description

Build and operate Rabobank's digital asset foundation delivering custody, trading, payments and tokenization capabilities.

You & your role

Shape Rabobank's digital asset foundation as a Senior DevOps Engineer, building core capabilities for custody, trading, payments and tokenization. Working at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure and blockchain technology, you integrate industry-leading digital asset platforms into a secure, regulated technology environment and help turn architectural vision into reliable production systems.

Examples for practices

• Build foundational digital asset capabilities for use across Rabobank.
• Implement secure transaction-signing and cryptographic key management integrations
• Help bring innovative digital asset use cases into production at bank scale while influencing engineering practices and technical direction

Facts & figures

• 36 or 40 hours per week
• Working across software engineering, cloud infrastructure and blockchain technology
• 9.5 million customers worldwide

Top 3 responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation of digital asset custody, trading, payment and transaction flows using platforms such as Fireblocks and Trever.
• Design, develop and maintain backend services, APIs and integrations for Rabobank's digital asset ecosystem.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployments and operational tooling for reliable platform operations.

You will join a small and specialized Digital Assets Services team with significant influence on the platform's evolution and the engineering culture that shapes it.

Together we achieve more than alone

The Digital Assets Services team delivers digital asset capabilities for Rabobank, from custody and trading to payments and tokenization. Together with architects, engineers, business teams and strategic technology partners, we turn Rabobank’s digital assets strategy into secure, scalable and reliable production systems.

As digital assets transcend traditional products, domains and organizational boundaries, collaboration is fundamental to how we work. By connecting expertise and breaking down silos, we create reusable capabilities that enable digital asset use cases across Rabobank.

“Digital assets will reshape banking as we know it. Our responsibility is to build the secure, scalable foundation that enable Rabobank to turn emerging use cases into reliable products. Together, we are building for a future of finance increasingly powered by blockchain technology, transforming how people and businesses interact with money and financial services.”

Tom Verhoeven, Tech Lead Digital Assets

Work on yourself and the world around you at the same time

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That's why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: "At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time." You'll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself - whoever you are. That's what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about.

You & your talent

• You are an experienced engineer who combines strong technical knowledge with ownership and leadership.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering or a comparable technical role.
• Strong backend development experience, preferably with Java and Spring Boot, and experience designing and building APIs, integrations and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating and consuming SaaS platforms and external APIs within complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, with exposure to Azure, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.
• Experience managing Linux-based environments in both cloud and on-premise infrastructures, with system reliability, observability, operational support and incident management.
• Strong analytical skills and a proactive ownership mentality, with experience leading technical delivery and guiding other engineers.
• Curiosity for emerging technology domains such as blockchain technology, digital asset infrastructure, tokenization, stablecoins, cryptographic key management and transaction-signing infrastructure.

Why this role is different

• Build a greenfield digital asset platform within a major bank
• Work directly with institutional custody, trading and key management technology
• Lead hands-on engineering delivery within a newly established team
• Influence technical direction and engineering culture from an early stage
• Combine backend engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, cryptography and blockchain technology

You & the application process

Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter via [e-mail]

If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.

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To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.