Ops Engineer - GFME @ 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 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?  

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:

• At ING, we're building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree

The Mission

The role of the GFME application is to connect all ING entities across the globe to the SWIFT network. As a central component in the movement of money, we are not only responsible for making money arrive at the correct destination, but also to make sure all transactions are screened for fraud or money laundry. Basically, we provide a business critical application which comes with many technical challenges such as ~100% uptime, exactly once processing, and a need for world-class monitoring.

As an Operations Engineer you will be responsible to design, evolve and maintain production platforms in GFME. That includes CI/CD pipelines, test and production environments. Candidates will be involved in hands-on activities including POCs, design, documentation, development and test of infrastructure and automation.

We are looking for strong technologists who are passionate to solve large-scale computer engineering problems, in a repeatable and maintainable way.

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:

• Define, design, and automate complex infrastructural tasks
• Work with developers to continuously improve platform automation, monitoring, alerting and stability to meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, availability, scalability and reliability
• Ability to find and help fix infrastructure, performance, scalability, and other live issues in a very time critical environment
• Help the team recognize potential infrastructure or security issues, and create a plan to solve them
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

• What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience: 4 years plus as an Operations Engineer

• Tech stack/ knowledge:
• Mandatory:

• Experience in creating, maintaining and optimizing OpenShift/Kubernetes environments with Helm

• Experience in creating, maintaining and optimizing CI/CD pipeline

• Nice to have:
• Experience in managing and supporting production environments
• Experience in managing the infrastructure of microservice based, highly distributed, scalable, concurrent and low latency systems

• Foreign languages: English (advanced)
• Education: nice to have Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in an IT related field