DevOps Engineer FlexING Platform ING Hubs Romania

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development data management nonfinancial risk & compliance audit and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide with the help of over 1700 highperforming engineers risk and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as INGs software development hub a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Now we provide borderless services with bankwide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and ClujNapoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management Touchpoint Channels & Integration Core Banking and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us impact isnt a perk. Its the driver of our work.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you

The Mission

Financial Markets (FM) is the Banks gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of INGs clients with products services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Within FM in Competitive Pricing area we have ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) asset which consists of multiple components that enable realtime and batch calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. XVA PFE Value at Risk Expected Shortfall Bilateral Margining predeal derivatives Pricing which are driven by new banking regulations as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates credits foreign exchange). This asset is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia Europe and Americas with aprox. 30 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam Brussels Bucharest and Singapore) cooperating to evolve it towards target ING Financial Markets IT vision.

You and your squad will be delivering key components spread over FlexING squads of Competitive Pricing area in Wholesale Banking Financial Markets. FlexING is focused on delivering solutions for sales traders and risk managers. We are specialized in derivative products covering multiple asset classes (equities commodities interest rates). Our business users are in London Amsterdam Brussels New York and Singapore. We are building applications to automate the whole flow from client quote requests to pricing booking and risk management.

Your day to day

Even if youll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our offices garden your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. The following will be the main responsibilities of the role:

• Continuous deployment and delivery using Azure DevOps

• Implement the security policy so that the system is secure at operating system database and application server level (this includes also regular patching of the entire environment suite Dev Test Acceptance Production)

• Configure and implement appropriate Monitoring Tooling using the correct and agreed event alerts

• Perform High Availability and Disaster Recovery tests with support from other IT teams

• IT Risk & security controls need to be put in place and accurately documented for this you will need to get familiar and keep up to date with the ING Information Security Management Policy

• Specify design test and deploy the runtime scripts (e.g. stop / start / purge / backup / deploy / rollback)

• Implement and work with the latest tooling with a strong focus on performance stability and security

• Perform Functional testing and Change Management activities in order to ensure the safe deliveries from Test to Acceptance and to Production environment

• Find opportunities to automate the testing of existing features performance and security as well as the automation of deployments monitoring and more. This is a key responsibility of the Operations Engineers

• Perform incident and problem management activities including root cause analysis to determine the actual failure cause and implement structural fixes. You communicate directly with users (Traders Credit/Market Risk Managers) on this from Amsterdam London Brussels New York and Singapore

What youll bring to the team

• Experience: 3 years of software engineering / operations experience

• Tech stack/ knowledge:

  • Mandatory:

    • Advanced knowledge on Windows OS administration

    • Advanced knowledge on MS SQL Server administration

    • Advanced knowledge on CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps preferably)

    • Proven experience with configuration management tools (Ansible knowledge representing a plus)

    • Proficiency in any scripting language for automation and system administration preferably Python and Powershell

    • Experience with implementing managing and troubleshooting PKI solutions including SSL/TLS certificates certificate authorities and key management practices

    • Knowledge of Java runtime environments including application configuration deployment log analysis and troubleshooting represents a plus (no development experience is required)

    • Linux OS administration knowledge is a plus (RedHat Enterprise Linux preferably)

    • Good spoken and written English skills with the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts

    • Good understanding of best practices regarding monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Grafana Prometheus and the Elastic Stack)

    • Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker including container management networking and security best practices. Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or OpenShift is a plus.

    • A customer focus with the mindset to find and resolve root causes of incidents to structurally improve the customer experience.

    • IT Operations/Support experience combined with analytical skills to identify root causes in workflows incidents (technical)

    • Familiarity with tools like ServiceNow Confluence Fortify

    • Experience or affinity with IT Risk (SOx vulnerability management) and Security concepts (protocols certificates etc.

    • A good team player cross functional enjoys interacting with people of all levels in a multicultural environment

    • Proactive and attentive to others needs

  • Nice to have:

    • Experience with managing fullstack vendor packages and additionally (low latency) infrastructural stack knowledge

• Foreign languages: English (advanced)

• Education: Education at Bachelor/Master level with a strong analytical background in Computer Science Cybernetics Software Engineering Financial Engineering or equivalent

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