Network Engineer @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 Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.  

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?  

The Mission

As part of the Proximity Hosting Solutions team, you will help deliver, maintain, and support a high‑tech, low‑latency connectivity platform that enables DevOps teams and Financial Markets applications. The team manages the full IT infrastructure hosted in Equinix Data Centres in Frankfurt and operated by Getronics.

This infrastructure supports mission‑critical Financial Markets applications such as KDB, Ullink, MarketView, GEP, and Horizon — platforms central to ING’s trading activities on exchanges such as Eurex Frankfurt. You will work according to the latest Agile practices in complex, high‑availability IT environments.

You will collaborate closely with enthusiastic, highly skilled colleagues from ING Hubs Romania and ING Bank Amsterdam. You will work on externally hosted (private cloud) infrastructure environments for Financial Markets — a fast-paced, complex, and continuously evolving area where quality and resilience are critical.

Your day to day

As a Network Engineer, you will ensure our network infrastructure remains secure, performant, resilient, and scalable. 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 responsibilities:

Business as Usual & License to Operate

• Daily operational support activities

• L2/L3 troubleshooting across network and related services

• Platform support for a wide range of internal application teams

Risk & Security

• Patch and vulnerability management

• Support for infrastructure-level pentesting and remediation

• Data center disaster recovery activities

• Infrastructure and security monitoring

Projects

• Storage and infrastructure migrations

• NetScaler / Citrix upgrades

• Outsourcing transitions (e.g., User Access Management)

• Ransomware resilience improvements

• Darktrace rollout and network security enhancements

• Capacity planning and network performance optimization

Architecture & Design Support (Primary Requirement)

You will actively support the Network Architect in:

• Gathering and clarifying new network requirements

• Preparing High-Level and Low-Level designs

• Validating design proposals and documenting technical impacts

• Supporting PoC (Proof of Concept) activities

• Assisting in the delivery and implementation of new network solutions

What you bring to the team

Knowledge and experience

• Solid experience with network equipment (routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers)

• Experience with VRRP, GLBP, HSRP or similar first-hop redundancy protocols

• Experience with high‑availability architectures & clustering technologies

• Experience with L2/L3 design principles, routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), VLANs, link aggregation, etc.

• Experience with data center networking (leaf-spine, segmentation, multi-pathing)

• Infrastructure monitoring and alerting experience

• Knowledge of storage networking and backup/restore concepts

• Experience performing risk/security procedures (pentesting support, vulnerability remediation, compliance reporting, PAM, DR)

• Experience in large-scale, complex, highly regulated IT environments

• Excellent English communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with firewalls, routers, switches, and advanced connectivity setups

• Data center and hybrid network architecture design knowledge

• Basic database knowledge (Oracle)

• Monitoring experience: Zabbix, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Alloy

• CISCO or equivalent certifications (CCNA/CCNP/CCIE)

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