You will be part of the Alliance of DevOps Product Teams Division in the Directorate General Information Systems. Our Division has around 30 members of staff providing support to various business areas under the digitalisation and transformation initiative. We establish, develop and maintain a portfolio of IT services provided by product teams working in DevOps mode. 

We are seeking to recruit two trainees who will join either the Cloud FinOps team or the enterprise resource planning (ERP) product team and work closely with the IT project managers and the product teams.

As a trainee in the Cloud FinOps team you will:

• build reporting dashboards and aggregate data sources;
• support the product teams in cloud cost optimisation;
• assist with the follow-up on implementation of cloud cost optimisation solutions, including savings plans, reservations and spot instances;
• update documentation in Confluence.

As a trainee in the ERP product team you will:

• assist the product team in sprint planning and execution;
• work closely with the product managers in introducing a new travel management system;
• help develop and improve the SAP Financial Accounting (FI) component to drive financial process innovation;
• update documentation in Confluence.

Essential: 

• a bachelor’s degree or higher in science, computer science, engineering, business informatics or another technology-related field;
• a good knowledge of the MS Office package;
• an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Desired: 

• experience of working with communication or collaboration solutions (e.g. Confluence, MS Teams, Miro or wikis);
• software development skills and the ability to learn new programming languages (e.g. Python or ABAP);
• knowledge of cloud infrastructure and architecture, analysing data using database management systems (e.g. Cloudera, Databricks or AWS RDS) and visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau or Power BI), and running CI/CD pipelines;
• knowledge of ERP systems and concepts, particularly SAP S/4HANA and its FI component, as well as familiarity with agile methodologies and sprint planning.