“DevOps Engineer”

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Ever since our founder, Genichi Kawakami, established Yamaha Motor, it is our mission to give to ALL our customers KANDO. Not only with our products, but also to our employees. KANDO is a Japanese word to express the feeling of deep satisfaction and excitement you get when you encounter something of exceptional value, quality, and performance.

You have the opportunity to be part of the Yamaha family.

For Yamaha Motor Europe N.V., located at Schiphol-Rijk in the Netherlands, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer within our Information Systems(IS) Division.

About the role:

The DevOps Engineer introduces processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle, from coding and deployment, to maintenance and updates as per agreed service levels, allowing users of Yamaha Motor Europe, European distributor organizations and, if applicable, users of third parties to use Yamaha’s business applications and office automation tools. Next to that, the DevOps Engineer acts as a project manager to contribute towards the execution of IT projects on a European level.

Your responsibilities:

• Accountable for the day-to-day operational activities required to meet the operational service levels as agreed with the user organization also ensuring everybody understands the guidelines for deployment.
• Ensure continuous service by minimizing the business impact in the event of an IT service interruption. The focus should be on building resilience into automated solutions and educating the developers. It includes determining the critical IT resources within Yamaha and the impact when these resources are not available.
• Making sure that code is stored correctly and can be used in case of a disaster.
• Ensure systems security by actively minimizing the impact of security vulnerabilities and incidents, in order to maintain the integrity of information and of the IT infrastructure processing this information.
• Establishing policies and procedures to ensure systems security such as user account creation and maintenance. It also includes determining possible security vulnerabilities and threats and defining counter measures.
• Responsible for creating procedures and guidelines for the developers.
• Establish and maintain an accurate and complete repository of all applications within the repositories. They should be cleaned when no longer in use.
• Provide the appropriate platforms for the business applications, following the defined IT standards and the overall technology direction. Plan the maintenance of the IT infrastructure and implement internal control, security and auditing measures.
• If required, IT services are acquired from third parties (hardware, software). Third party performance needs to be monitored to verify whether their services are delivered as agreed (SLA).
• Communicate in clear and unambiguous terms with (key) users about any relevant issue using any suitable tool for communication (mail, phone, presentations etc.). Admit mistakes in functionality but also point out the user’s responsibilities in a professional non-accusative manner.
• Clear communication with IS colleagues and external (IT) consultants emphasizing Yamaha’s IS strategy of centralization, standardization, integration and our responsibilities towards users, group companies, YMC(Japan HQ) and other stakeholders.

What do you bring?

• Minimum 4 years of experience in a similar role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, AWS, AWS-CloudFormation, AWS-Lambda, AWS-ECS, Jenkins, SonarQube, Gitlab, Gitlab-pipelines, Nexus, JFrog, Docker, IaC, Azure, Azure-DevOps, Terraform, Openshift, EKS, Ansible
• Programming language: Java, Python, Swift-2.0, Android (Java), PL/SQL, SQL, powershell, JSON, YAML
• Methods: Agile Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code

About You!

A motivated and inspirational colleague, happy to support the business and truly devoted to customer success. You consider yourself being a fast learner and a quick doer. With your proactive attitude, you want to make things happen. You are a team player and willing to go the extra mile and are not afraid to face challenges. Quality and professionalism lie close to your heart.

About Yamaha Motor Europe:

Yamaha Motor Europe is responsible for coordinating the marketing and sales activities of our products in the European marketplace, mainly: Yamaha motorcycles and scooters, marine outboard engines, Wave runner water vehicles, 4-wheel All-Terrain Vehicles (ATV’s), golf cars, snowmobiles, and generators.

What’s in it for you?

• A diverse and international environment;
• We offer a hybrid way of working, of course, this includes working from home allowance and a budget for setting up your home office;
• Commuting allowance, holiday allowance, and, 28 days off to enjoy as you please;
• 13th-month payment and you will participate in our Bonus Program;
• Pension scheme;
• Learning and development opportunities;
• Discount on Yamaha products;
• Your first contract will be a temporary contract, but with the intention to extend or offer an indefinite contract;
• We support you in getting your motor or boat license;
• Try out our newest models via our private lease plan and staff bike program;
• Free fruits are available in our office;
• You can enjoy breakfast/ lunch in our own restaurant "The Three Forks" at the office;
• Get to know your colleagues during our company/team events and monthly afternoon drinks.

Contact:
Sounds interesting? We are looking forward to receiving your CV and motivation letter.
You can apply by using the LinkedIn apply button!
For more information about the recruitment process please contact us at recruitment@yamaha-motor.nl.

Note, an assessment will be part of our procedure.

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