DevOps Engineer - TIP - PSS @ING Hubs Romania

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. 

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. 

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services. 

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

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's 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

ING’s Payment and Settlement Services (“PSS”) aims to further mature, develop and expand ING’s state of the art payments platforms and settlements services. The PSS focusses on delivering payments and settlement services, meeting the expectations of ING’s business lines and beyond, whilst ensuring the basics: safe, secure, compliant, and reliable. The PSS is an independent unit within ING’s CTO domain, reporting directly into ING’s Chief Technology Officer.

PSS is responsible for providing standardized payments and settlements services around to multiple ING business lines (WB, Retail, and others). There is a clear ambition to also look for external commercialization of our payment platforms.

If you want to work at a place where we believe that you can live by the Agile manifesto practicing agile; where we find that the problem chooses the framework/technology and not the other way around; where we are committed to fostering a proper engineering culture and building a high-productivity team of smart DevOps engineers with the getting-things done, please read on.

You will focus predominantly on the development and extension of the platform of the existing payment engine, APIs and microservices. These applications are written using Java, Spring frameworks (e.g., JPA, JMS, Streaming, Batch, etc.) and deployed via Azure DevOps pipeline.

Your day to day

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks:

• Responsibility for the full the stack/platform on Development, Test, Acceptance and Production environments. You automate relentlessly: Regression Testing (Functional, Performance, Security), Deployments, and Operations (Data Center failover, Backups/Restore, Security Monitoring, full stack monitoring);
• You take ownership of life cycle management of all components (O.S., Middleware, Database) as well as security (interface encryption certificates, user access, vulnerability analysis and patching);
• As part of the Squad you work in an Agile/Scrum way, on the backlog prioritized by a Technical Product Owner, and you demo your features to the Capability Squads that you work with;
• Improve application monitoring using the correct and agreed event alerts (Grafana, Prometheus, Log4all);
• Support in performing High Availability and Disaster Recovery tests;
• Implement and work with the latest tooling with a strong focus on performance, stability and security;
• Find opportunities to automate the testing of existing features, performance and security as well as the automation of deployments, monitoring, and more;
• Understand the root cause for a problem or existing gap for an enhancement and propose a viable solution for it;
• Take ownership of issues and improvements, seeing them through to completion, providing comprehensive handover as required;
• You assist with technical specifications for change requests and user stories;
• Analyze requirements and define their applicability inside the technical environment;
• Work on technical improvements (automation, monitoring, setting up environments, Azure DevOps pipelines);
• Continuous deployment and delivery using Azure DevOps;
• 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;
• Comply with all internal guidelines, timely completion all mandatory training and always safeguard the integrity and reputation of ING;
• Occasional travel abroad (Amsterdam).

What you’ll bring to the team

• 5+ years’ experience in a DevOps role;
• Hands on experience with at least one automation tool (Ansible, Chef, Salt, Terraform, etc);
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with Azure DevOPS or Google Cloud;
• Monitoring & Logging: Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar tools;
• You are highly knowledgeable on Red Hat operating systems and networking. Solid experience in clustered environments, managing servers and troubleshooting;
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (such as: Azure Devops, Git, Sonar, Checkmarx);
• Experience with at least one virtualization - and/or containerization technologies; VMWare, Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift;
• Ability to automate release processes and operations using e.g. Python, Shell, Ansible;
• Passion for technology, drive for continuous improvement and using your creativity to achieve this;
• Strong analytical skills, proactivity and willingness to share knowledge with others;
• Ability and agility to organize and motivate others to improve themselves;
• Very good soft skills (communicative, friendly, curious, etc);
• General knowledge about REST APIs.

Nice to have:

• Basic knowledge about the Springboot framework;
• Low latency infrastructural stack knowledge;
• Security and IT Risk (SOX, vulnerability management);
• Oracle databases;
• Foreign languages: English (advanced).

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