Platform Engineer - International Finance System @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 Bucharest.

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

IFS (International Financial System) it’s a core bank system for Wholesale Banking clients, which offers business services to many international branches of ING, like Madrid, Milan, Lisbon, Frankfurt, Vienna, London and Brussels. The main business services are payment and cash management (PCM) services, with additional lending and financial market services. It is an in-house developed service built on Microsoft stack technology, which is now operated and maintained out of Belgium.

You will be part of a new and high performing team, built in ING Tech around IFS project, with a medium-long term objective of delivering important and interesting features (like Instant Payments), but also of operating and maintaining IFS service. You will collaborate closely with the team from Belgium accordingly with Agile methodology.

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:

• Contribute to development and deployment of IFS application by working closely with the other team members - CI/CD via Azure DevOps. Embrace emerging standards on financial products while promoting best practices in IT;
• Operating and close monitoring of the application. Run basic infrastructure operations. Take care of the transfer flows from/to our partners;
• Take an active part in design and technical decisions on both new and existing components;
• Be able to mix “big picture” reasoning with component level delivery
• Initiate, iterate and continuously improve on technology, developing the product as well as the way of working;
• Take ownership for deployments, integration testing, performance issue or incidents;
• Follow coding and security standards, builds appropriate deployment scripts;
• Assure Incident/Problem/Change management. Assure that Penetration Test, DR, Backup and IT Risk controls are in place according to ING security standards.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience: previous OPS experience for at least 2 years;
• Tech stack/ knowledge:
• Mandatory:

-Wintel skills (Windows Server, MS SQL admin, provisioning, patching,

troubleshooting windows stack);

-Scripting (preferable PowerShell);

-Continuous delivery continuous integration (preferable Azure

DevOps);

• Nice to have:

-Good understanding of ITIL processes, functional programming

appetite, optimization techniques, cloud experience, encryption

knowledge;

-Monitoring experience (Grafana/Prometheus);

-Testing experience (Integration, System testing, Resilience);

-Basic networking, SQL reporting;

-Certificate management;

-Agile;

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

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