Senior Kubernetes SRE

ORGINAL POSTING DATA: 19.05.2026

Introduction
We are looking for Senior SRE in the team which manages internally hosted Kubernetes platform (also known as ICHP).

In this role you will be managing multiple Kubernetes clusters and building components that facilitate SRE.

For this role, knowledge of Azure Devops, Kubernetes (preferably Openshift) is mandatory.

The team
Our team is diverse mix of young and experienced engineers who manage existing Kubernetes clusters.
It is multinational team, and consists of 6 engineers working from Netherlands, Germany, Poland.
The team is responsible for Lifecycle management of ICHP's multiple clusters and working effectively as a unit in handling day to day operations and incidents.
At the same time, it needs to add scalability in operations as in future there will be many more clusters it will need to handle.

Roles and responsibilities

As Senior SRE you will be responsible for:

• Get scope of team responsibilities

• Understand ICHP's cluster landscape.

• Understand ICHP's broader team structure and dependencies with other teams in Cloud Tribe

• Manage Lifecycle of Kubernetes Clusters

• Manage Incidents.

• Work with team members to bring SRE practices in the team

• Be part of Standby Roaster.

• Own the documentation and arrange Demoes and Roadshows for ICHP consumers

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.

• Understand ING's infra ecosystem.

• Understand Kubernetes, especially Openshift.

• Have Everything as a code mindset.

• Believe in repetitive tests and quality assurance.

• Be hungry to learn about ING's platforms and dependencies

• Listen and understand needs of our consumers.

• Be open, upfront and clear with your teammates.

• Collaborate ICHP's overall teams (Core Platform Development, Innovations and Security, Namespace as A Service, ICHP Stateful)

• Collaborate ICHP's dependent teams in cloud tribe (SDN, BMaaS)

• Collaborate with other teams across ING.

• Have ‘Make it happen’ attitude.

Stand-by shifts

Business critical systems, such as client processes, payment processes, software applications and websites, require a 24/7 accessibility and availability of several (groups) of employees to act quickly during unforeseen circumstances, such as calamities or incidents. For these (groups) of employees ING have set up a Stand-by regulation. To compensate for the inconvenience of being available at this time, a Stand-by compensation is awarded.