SRE Engineer

Are you passionate about reliability, automation, and making complex systems run smoothly at scale? As an SRE Engineer at ING, you’ll play a key role in enabling our Always Available mindset by helping teams improve observability, performance, and operational excellence. If you love solving problems, experimenting with new technologies, and empowering engineering teams, this role is for you.

The team

You will join the Wholesale Banking (WB) SRE team, working closely with DevOps squads across the organization. Together, we drive reliability practices, improve availability of critical services, and raise SRE maturity standards. Our culture is deeply collaborative and supportive — we run hackathons, weekly support sessions, and hands-on training to uplift teams.

Roles and responsibilities

• Organize and participate in support and training initiatives such as mini hackathons and weekly SRE support sessions.
• Contribute to automating build, test, and deployment practices through CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive the 'Always Available' mindset and help identify gaps in SRE knowledge.
• Provide resources, skills, guidance, and training to DevOps teams.
• Contribute to global standards for logging, monitoring, and alerting, and support teams in implementation.
• Participate in observability maturity assessments and SRE evaluations.
• Initiate and run experiments with new tools and concepts.
• Improve incident response practices and support escalated/critical incidents.
• Participate in Root Cause Analyses and help implement improvements.
• Enable automatic reporting and feedback loops.
• Tune application resources and improve high-availability deployment patterns.
• Drive initiatives like AI Ops, Chaos Engineering, Cloud migrations, and Error Budgeting.
• Participate in platform tests (DDOS, DR, Ceiling/Break, Penetration).
• Assist with implementing Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Prepare training content on reliability topics.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• Good knowledge of at least one programming language (Python required; Java is a plus).
• Understanding of relational or NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Linux/Unix/Windows systems.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of Git, Ansible, and Azure DevOps.
• Strong problem‑solving mentality and curiosity mindset.

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
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Questions?
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