Platform Engineer - TIP - PSS @ING Hubs Ro

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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 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.
We started out in 2015 as ING’s 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 bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.
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 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:

Together with your IT colleagues in Amsterdam, Bucharest, Manila, India you will:

• Take 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 Platform 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
• 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
• Liaise with the vendor about environment updates and upgrades
• Propose opportunities and innovations
• 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.
• Our platform has a global user base of Risk Managers, Traders and Sales in Singapore, Europe and New York. You will help maintaining and developing a stable, performing and secure platform/service.
• 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

• University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Informatics or equivalent;
• 4+ years’ experience as an infrastructure professional;
• You are highly knowledgeable on Red Hat operating systems and networking. You are also showing knowledge and interest in clustered environments;
• 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).
• Nice to have:
• Low latency infrastructural stack knowledge
• Security and IT Risk (SOX, vulnerability management)
• Shell scripting: Korn shell, Python, Perl
• 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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