Senior SAS Viya DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a SAS Viya DevOps Engineer to become part of the Modelling & Analytics Chapter within TECH / Finance & Risk to deliver value in the COO Risk, Modelling Tribe.

The VIYA4U squad is part of the Modelling tribe within the domain of COO Risk. The aim of the Modelling Tribe is to optimally manage and support the Risk modelling capabilities of ING. Risk models are crucial for the competitive advantage of ING. With highly performant Risk models, ING is able to make accurate predictions related to the probability of default of customers, for instance, and with that can make well informed decisions related to Business & Consumer Loans. The VIYA4U squad provisions state of the art tooling to support ING’s global Modelling community. The purpose is to deliver standardized and globally supported, high-performing, secure, compliant, reliable and scalable environments aligned with existing ING target infrastructure.

As a SAS Viya DevOps Engineer you will be part of the VIYA4U squad working for the Modelling Tribe.

We operate according to a Scrum Agile process and strongly believe in the BusDevOps approach to delivering IT solutions because operationally we work closely with our business stakeholders to support their activities. The focus is on anticipating needs and delivering secure, scalable, reliable, useable platforms on time using iterative development cycles with regular milestone demos and strong compliancy focus.

The team

The VIYA4U squad is an energetic, international team of highly qualified SAS Experts and SAS Viya DevOps engineers. You will join a team where the product is constantly evolving and introducing new features. The main platform is based SAS Viya 4.0 (containerized version of SAS Viya) on the Azure Cloud a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) from SAS Institute

We are looking for an SAS Viya DevOps Engineer (SAS Viya Administrator) who would like to join us and strengthen the team with their technical know-how and a great attitude.

Roles and responsibilities

As a SAS Viya DevOps Engineer you will be part of the VIYA4U squad and in that role you will be responsible for the roll out, configuration, upgrade and maintenance of the underlying tooling based on SAS Viya 4.0 by applying CI/CD techniques and SRE principles.

• Configuring, administering and monitoring the SAS Viya 4 environment on Azure Cloud

• Build code from scratch or maintain/extend existing implementations for provisioning, configuring, enhancing the Platform using CI/CD techniques in Azure DevOps

• Realize non-functional requirements, for example regarding Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, risk, compliance and security, in line with existing policies and at all levels (OS, application

• Solve Incidents, problems and calls raised on the platform, conducting root cause analyses

• Perform Support Hero Role along with other colleagues.  Occasional support in the weekend is required

• Understand the behaviour of your Application in failure scenarios, and drive improvements in line with ING’s Reliability objectives,

• Keep the environment secure

• Actively participate in the Agile/Scrum events of the team like Standups, Refinements, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives

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.

We are looking for you, if you:

• have extensive experience with operating and maintaining a SAS Viya 4.0 environment,

• have experience with working on Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps,

• have extensive experience with Ansible and Terraform (Yaml),

• have 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in creating scalable,  secure, stable,  reliable platforms,

• have good English communication skills, verbal as well as written,

• You'll get extra points for:

• knowledge of monitoring and alerting tooling or knowledge any of the following (Kibana, Logstash, Prometheus),

• experience in operating and maintaining databases.

• are a team player, persistent, service-oriented, customer centric, eager to learn, an entrepreneur.

You are a driven IT specialist with excellent analytical skills. You are ambitious with what you and your team want to achieve. You feel a personal responsibility for the quality of your application and its reliability, and you work together with your colleagues across your domain. You recognise problems and come up with structural solutions.

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

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