Join our team!

KBC Bank, the parent company of the Hungarian K&H Bank, provides banking services in 5 European countries. The international IT solutions of the banking group, covering several European countries, takes place with Hungarian and Belgian colleagues in Hungary and Belgium, therefore not only our services are international, but also our teams. Our responsibilities range from day-to-day operation to application development and its operation. We are constantly expanding the Hungarian side of the team, which is why we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated new employees with junior, medior or possibly senior work experience.
Do you know our banking app has been named the best in the world? Or that we have ‘Kate’, a digital personal assistant at the cutting edge of AI tech? Perhaps you’re aware there’s a KBC coin on its way, programmable money on the blockchain?
At KBC IT, the era of suits and ties is long behind us; we have a real, dynamic start-up mentality. You’ll work with more than 1500 like-minded professionals on the solutions of tomorrow.
We are quick to react. We are flexible. And we are focused on achieving the best results. There is space for new ideas that ensure we keep innovating. Always with the latest technology. KBC is big, but not unwieldy.
Are you ready for the challenge of combining innovation with 100% uptime? It is always interesting. One day, you implement changes or new features. The next day, you pull on your rubber boots, roll up your sleeves and tackle urgent or complex problems.
In our data centres in Belgium, Hungary and the cloud, we host the critical applications that support our banking and insurance activities by registering millions of transactions at light speed every day. We do this on our own mainframe, on our own extensive private cloud and in the public cloud (AWS, Azure), on various standard platforms (Windows, Linux and IBM z/OS) as well as cloud-native technologies (such as Hadoop, Kubernetes, Docker or others).
The mainframe is still the beating heart of KBC and a remains a strategic CORE PLATFORM. The mainframe is also undergoing technological evolution and innovation. This is necessary to live up to the KBC business strategy "No customer impact" and "Digital & Datadriven Strategy". On to "the next level" on the mainframe!
If data are "the new electricity" for KBC, then our mainframes are the "power plants"!
The main objective, within our SIN (Service & infrastructure) management, is to keep the mainframe platform infrastructure (pro)actively stable, secure and performing at an acceptable price. And to continue to be the REFERENCE for Mainframe Application Hosting.
To achieve this goal, we are looking for enthusiastic colleagues to join our team!
As a team we are responsible for the intake of new workload on mainframe, we take on the role of release coordinator for the application releases on mainframe. We are also a competence center for batch scheduling on mainframe and responsible for data management.
What you can expect working with us:

• You can make sure your future career is steady within our company
• Life-long learning and plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself
• Competitive salary as well as other benefits such as:
• 10% customizable cafeteria,
• annual performance-based reward,
• company phone with mobile internet, that you can use for private purposes as well
• employee discount at the bank
• Medicover
• Your English language skills won’t be worn out as you can use it on a daily basis
• Flexible schedule as we don’t use ‘Clock in Clock out’ system
• As our focus is on teamwork we consider it important to hang out in the "open office" together, but you have the option to spend 3 days per week working from home
• We value your insight and are always open to suggestions
• International environment with a cheerful work atmosphere
• Green office in Millennium Park, equipped with:

• bicycle storage and showers
• restaurant with panoramic views over the Danube and the National Theatre
• free coffee and snacks in our community area where we hang out and play darts, and many dining options in the surrounding area

What we expect from You:

• You act as a liaison between the different Devops teams and Mainframe Hosting & Infrastructure.
• You bring in a qualitative and following the release processes, software and batch processing on the mainframe in production.
• You coordinate the changes to be carried out with all services involved and you carry out the fixes and/or corrections.
• You monitor the use of the correct standards and practices and communicate them to all departments involved. You are communicatively strong enough to communicate these standards in a convincing way to development.
• You automate anything that can be automated. Wave goodbye to repetitive tasks!
• You dive into the details of an incident to find out exactly what the problem is and start working on a solution together with the Devops teams.
• You’re an expert at avoiding incidents and ensuring we have zero downtime.

What your job will be:

• You’re happy to go exploring and finding ways to involve other people in new stories. Automating a repetitive job, immersing yourself in new material, brainstorming with your colleagues about different ways of doing things, testing out a new technology ... You’ll be at home in this job if you enjoy these tasks.
• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree and you have at least 5 year experience in a mainframe environment.
• You enjoy working as part of a team. Smooth communication is an important aspect of this, therefore it’s important that you are fluent in English.
• You have a good knowledge of JCL, Changeman, IWS as a scheduler, Rex and ISPF.
• You are eager to share your knowledge with your colleagues and team mates.
• You have experience in mentoring @ the job, and setting up documentation.
• It helps if you’re familiar with agile values and principles, but that’s not a necessity. You’ll soon find out how we apply them.

• Participating in the on call rotation system.

What you can expect during the recruitment process:

• After sending your CV in English, expect a three-round interview process, one online with our local recruiter, one online in English with the Belgian team leader, and the final round is in person at our office in Budapest (in Hungarian) to get to know each other better.
• An efficient selection process is important for both of us, so we try to make it as fast as possible, and even if you are not selected we will give you a detailed feedback.