DevOps Engineer – Financial Markets

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ING is looking for an excellent DevOps Engineer for our Financial Markets area with technical & people skills. The team is responsible for the platform of multiple financial market applications. The applications are used globally. If you are interested in improving and maintain high available application, please read on.

Organization Context
At ING, we believe all sustainable progress is driven by people with the imagination and determination to improve their future and the futures of those around them. We empower people and organizations to realize their own vision for a better future. Join us! Together we can build the next generation of digital banking!

You’ll be joining a team within Wholesale Banking Tech – Financial Markets. Our team is a part of the Competitive Services IT area of ING. We are responsible for development and maintenance of several systems of Financial Markets and Global Treasury. We operate according to a DevOps development process and strongly believe in the Agile approach to delivering IT solutions. The focus is on high-quality mission-critical target oriented development with regular milestones. We are an open minded squad that values trust and transparency above all.

Qualifications
Masters/Bachelor’s Degree in IT/Computer Science/Engineering related courses

Role & responsibilities
As a DevOps engineer, you will be responsible for shaping the technical vision of the team with the other developers and Chapter lead and you will enable team to follow that vision. We operate according to an Agile Scrum development process and strongly believe in the DevOps approach to delivering IT solutions. Our focus is on high-quality software delivered continuously using iterative development. In this way of working, we maximize the customers satisfaction/impact and have a great feedback loop.

How to succeed
•    Excellent social and communication skills. We are a very international team and main language is English. Scrum rituals desire proper communication and social skillset.
•    Great analytical skills and problem solving skills.
•    The mindset of openness and willingness to try new ways of working and technologies
•    You love technology and naturally stay up-to-date on relevant new developments.
•    End-to-end ownership mindset
•    Active team player who takes responsibility
•    Independent and autonomous in completing tasks
•    The mentality of continuous improvement of the service and way of working
•    Reflects upon behaviors and performance to proactively identify improvement areas
•    Coaches others to help their individual development
•    Experience in direct communication with and/or support of end users

What technology expertise are we looking for?
Should have:
•    Bachelor of Science in Software engineering or an equivalent field.
•    5+ years of experience in relevant field
•    Experience in IT operational support. (ITIL)
•    Sufficient organizational and administrational skills. Documentation, planning, etc.
•    Good knowledge in RHEL 8/9 and container platform preferably OpenShift
•    Experience with Bash and Python.
•    Good knowledge of at least one modern relational database. This combined with either knowledge of or interest in learning the Relational (preferably oracle) database, which we rely on. (DDL , DML)
•    DevOps/scrum or Agile experience.
•    Experience with continuous delivery and deployment tools (preferably Azure DevOps)
•    Knowledge in setting up Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
•    Automating maintenance and support activities.
•    Experience and knowledge in setting up monitoring and alerting
•    Experience designing and maintaining automated tests (API, functional, and regression).
•    Hands-on experience with Python-based test frameworks or enterprise/internal test automation tools.
•    Ability to automate API validations and data-driven scenarios (JSON/XML).
•    Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (preferably Azure DevOps).
•    Knowledge of test design techniques and writing maintainable, reusable test scripts.
•    Familiarity with validating logs, monitoring, and alert behavior as part of test coverage.

Nice to have:
•    Financial markets knowledge or certifications
•    Experience in handling IT security risk activities

Seniority/Level/Ranking
•    Intermediate/Senior

Why ING?
•    Work in a challenging environment within ING Wholesale Banking – Financial Markets
•    Access to the latest technology – Keeping your professional development continuous
•    High-level and energetic work atmosphere
•    We operate according to a Scrum Agile development process and strongly believe in the DevOps approach to delivering IT solutions.
•    The focus is on high-quality mission-critical software delivered in time using iterative development with regular milestone demos to the business, so that at the end there are no surprises about what we build.