DevOps Engineer | Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)@ING Hubs Romania

Discover ING Hubs Romania 

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

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Project has the aim to digitally transform the value proposition and service model offered to our Business Banking clients at group level. The aim is to provide a foundation for global development of solutions and features for Business Banking clients. This will enable us to unlock synergies between countries in the digital transformation and avoid duplication going forward.

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. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• Supporting internal customers and troubleshooting critical production issues across platforms and applications as required.
• Support on production deployments, identifying and patching vulnerabilities with Change management in mind.
• Building, improving and maintaining monitoring and reporting frameworks (Prometheus, ELK stack, Grafana), including guidance and standardization.
• Provide the evidence to cover the required IT Risk Controls.
• Incident management flow, react to incidents and perform standby activities with the rest of the team.
• Automated build and deployment process based on the CD/CI tools provided in the Azure DevOps and using internal private cloud (virtual machines), templates and guidelines including.
• Various technologies including, but not limited to Ansible, RHEL, Kibana, Oracle database, Azure DevOps tools, Docker, Axway (File transfer), Kubernetes, Nginx.
• Manage, generate, sign application certificates (SSL, TLS) workflow.
• Find opportunities to automate deployments, monitoring, standardization and more. This is a key responsibility of the Operations Engineers.
• Collaborate with the other Dev and Ops engineers and support to bring live new sprint releases every 2-4 weeks to Acceptance and Production.

*Considering that you’ll work closely with other teams from the ING group, occasional international travel might be required

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience: more than 3 years
• Experience working in LINUX environments (sysadmin, patching, debugging)
• Relevant experience in an Ops/DevOps/IT Risk (worked with it risk methodology, tools, techniques and concepts)
• Familiar with IT Security concepts and terminology related to applications, databases, operating systems, and IT operations (patching, vulnerability scanning, backup strategy, zero-day vulnerabilities, DR exercise, Penetration tests)
• Strong risk based, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Basic knowledge of networking concepts (ip routing, firewall, security)
• A desire to learn new technologies and evolve with an ever changing industry
• Accurate in documenting and following procedures
• Confrontable to discuss incidents, changes with external Vendors.
• Good knowledge of relational databases;

Nice to have

• Some experience (using these tools) is nice to have: Monitoring Tooling like Prometheus and ElasticStack
• Experience and knowledge with messages busses/queueing systems like Kafka and preferably Tibco EMS.
• Experience with tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef, and automated deployment on both container and non-container platforms.
• Developing experience with Python, Java or GoLang.
• Experience with Oracle. 
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline is preferred

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