Ops Engineer - RaceING

Competitive Pricing Area, part of the FM&GT Tribe, seeks an enthusiastic Operations Engineer, with a solid Operations background in the Financial Markets domain.

Competitive Pricing is a dynamic and contemporary workplace for a diverse Operations Engineer who enjoys technical and functional challenges. You will work closely with your business users and other squads to provide end to end support to various customer journeys.

The opportunity and teams:

As an Operations Engineer you will play a crucial role for RaceING which is part ING Pricing Architecture Platform (IPA). RaceING is fully in-house developed platform for pricing and risk calculations for Financial Markets (FM) department of ING, and beyond. It is a global platform, used in all ING FM locations, and is developed and supported by multiple squads in Amsterdam, Singapore and India.

As a Ops engineer you will be part of a multidisciplinary and international agile team that is responsible for developing, maintaining, and operating the systems we deliver. You will be involved in the whole development lifecycle, from refining user stories to monitoring software in production.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Monitor, support and run the services consisting of multiple components.
• Take care of incident and change management.
• Implement and work with the latest tooling with a strong focus on performance, stability and security
• Find opportunities to automate repetitive tasks/actions. This is a key responsibility.
• IT Risk & security controls need to be put in place and accurately documented, for this you will need to get familiar and keep up to date with the ING Information Security Management Policy.
• Continuous deployment and delivery using Azure DevOps
• Collaborate with the other engineers to define/refine/improve the technical architecture of the application
• Through Agile/Scrum, collaborate with the other engineers to bring live new features to Production.

How to Succeed:

• Experience: 5+ years of software engineering/ operations experience
• Advanced knowledge on CI/CD, and experience with Azure DevOps, Git, Maven, Ansible
• Hands on experience with Linux Operating system (RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 or 8)
• Familiarity with Oracle 12c/19c with PL/SQL
• Experience with Shell scripting and python
• Troubleshoot and solve issues/incidents
• Be part of standby schedule for support outside office hours (one week every 1-2 months)
• Affinity or experience with IT Risk
• Identify the possibilities to automate repetitive tasks and implement them.
• A team player who enjoys working in a larger multicultural environment

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Docker, Tibco EMS, MQ
• Experience with Application servers like JBoss/Tomcat.
• Monitoring (ELK, Grafana, prometheus)