DevOps Engineer – Employee Permissions for Wholesale Banking @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?  

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

Wholesale Banking is starting a new strategic initiative: the Employee Permissions application. The goal is to build a centralized solution used by Wholesale Banking domains to manage employee permissions for data, documents and business journeys.

The new application will provide capabilities for team management, role management, data-scope and functional-scope permissions, and will be consumed by other WB systems for data shielding and unified access rights.

This is a new product, which means the squad will be involved from the beginning: shaping the technical foundation, delivery pipelines, monitoring, operational model, security controls and production readiness.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with strong engineering mindset, hands-on automation skills and the ambition to grow. The role is suitable for someone with minimum 3 years of experience who already takes ownership, works independently on technical improvements and has the potential to become a senior engineer within the next year.

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 it comes to tasks.

You will:

• Take responsibility for application environments across Development, Test, Acceptance and Production.
• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and related tooling.
• Automate deployments, configuration, operational checks, monitoring setup, environment provisioning and repetitive operational activities.
• Support the development and extension of a new platform built around APIs, backend services and integrations with other Wholesale Banking systems.
• Work closely with Java backend, frontend, PO, CJE, architects and Chapter Lead to define technical requirements and production-readiness criteria.
• Ensure that security, resilience, stability, performance and observability are considered from the beginning of the application lifecycle.
• Contribute to lifecycle management of platform components, including operating system, middleware, databases, certificates, access configuration, vulnerability analysis and patching.
• Improve application monitoring and alerting using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK / centralized logging or similar.
• Support High Availability and Disaster Recovery preparation, testing and documentation.
• Contribute to IT Risk and security controls, making sure they are implemented, documented and kept up to date.
• Investigate issues, understand root causes and propose durable technical solutions.
• Take ownership of operational improvements and see them through to completion, including proper handover and documentation.
• Assist with technical specifications for change requests and user stories.
• Analyze requirements and define their applicability inside the technical environment.
• Work on technical improvements such as automation, monitoring, pipeline optimization, environment setup, security hardening and deployment reliability.
• Participate in Agile / Scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, demos and discovery sessions.

What you’ll bring to the team

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a DevOps, Operations Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering or similar role.
• Experience working with application environments and supporting software delivery pipelines.
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams.

Tech stack / knowledge

Essential:

• Experience with at least one virtualization or containerization technology such as VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Hands-on experience with at least one automation tool such as Ansible, Terraform.
• Good knowledge of Linux / Red Hat operating systems.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD tooling and source-control workflows.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Log4all or similar.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Shell / Bash or similar.
• Familiarity with tools such as Git, Sonar, Checkmarx, Artifactory or similar.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of application security topics such as certificates, TLS, access management, vulnerability management, patching and secrets handling.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate root causes.
• Proactive attitude, ownership mindset and willingness to drive improvements.
• Passion for technology and continuous improvement.
• Very good communication skills; communicative, friendly, curious and collaborative.
• English: advanced spoken and written.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Oracle databases or other enterprise databases.
• Experience with High Availability and Disaster Recovery patterns.
• Experience in banking, financial services or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience with Security and IT Risk topics such as SOX-like controls, vulnerability management or audit evidence.
• Knowledge of IAM, One Identity, Active Directory, entitlement models or access-management platforms.
• Experience with performance testing, security testing or automated regression checks.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher, preferably in an IT-related field.

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